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Coalition doubles IED seizures in Afghanistan
Insurgents in Afghanistan planted more bombs during the spring and summer than at any time during the war, as direct attacks on coalition troops have ebbed.At the same time the military coalition in Afghanistan has more than doubled its seizures of enemy weapons and is finding a higher number of improvised bombs, or IEDs, before they explode. The latest Pentagon figures on IEDs show that Islamic fascisti planted 4,472 of the bombs from May through July, a 17% increase compared with the same three months in 2010. IEDs are the single largest cause of casualties among U.S. troops. That strategy has led to the killing and captures of hundreds of Taliban leaders in recent months and the leveling off of bully boy-initiated attacks. NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... says assaults on coalition forces dropped 20% in the first half of 2011 over 2010. Of the IEDs planted in May-July, troops found 2,049 of them before they went kaboom!, a 40% increase, according to the Joint IED Defeat Organization. And troops also found 1,548 weapons stashes during that time, a 145% increase. Posted by: 2011-09-06 |
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