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| Iraq |
| They used to have good bombs, now only the amateurish ones are left |
| 2008-09-05 |
| "The types of attacks (by al-Qaida), the methods have remained very specific -- VBIEDs, suicide bomber, some small arm fire -- but their ability to make them effective has really dropped off," said Col Allen Batschelet, the 4th ID's deputy commander. "Where we used to seeing VBIEDS that were extremely technical and with a lot of explosive material. Now they're very amateurish and the explosive material is down to the 10-15 pounds (range), where we used to see some of these VBIEDs or deep-buried IEDs that were in the hundreds of pounds of explosive materials." The rest of the article discusses how the American and Iraqi troops controlling Baghdad have taken away all the cached weapons of the anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) militia and Iranian-influenced Special Group (SG) cells, as well as remnant cells of al-Qaida. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 great news... the enemy is obviously suffering from the lack of supply and a lack of an ability to replicate technical experience. keep it up |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-09-05 16:05 |