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Iraq
US troops find armour-piercing bombs in Iraq
2007-02-26
US officers say troops in Iraq have found a huge haul of armour-piercing bombs of a kind which Tehran has allegedly smuggled to Shiite militias, hidden alongside Iranian mortar shells.

US army Major Jeremy Siegrist said American soldiers discovered a workshop with enough components to build 150 "explosively formed penetrators" in a Shiite village 25 kilometres north of Baghdad.

Earlier this month, a US military spokesman said EFPs were made in Iran and exported to Iraqi Shiite groups as bomb components to be assembled and used in attacks on US and Iraqi forces.

But Major Siegrist was more cautious.

"I don't think there's any way this can be tied to a government," he said.
"I mean, we didn't recover the bill, so we may never know."
Posted by:anonymous5089

#9  Titan 1 doc? Them red clouds means bad juju.

Hmmmmm nope, I see from your properties that it's a NOAA Titan 2? Still red smoke bad.

Yeah, now I see that little NOAA birdie...
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-26 21:24  

#8   Shaped Charge explained.
Posted by: doc   2007-02-26 18:00  

#7  WND > Russia still intent on selling 000's of Anti-Tank/Armour missles, etal. to Hizzies + Hezzies in Lebanon.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-02-26 18:00  

#6  Could someone define what "armor-piercing" means in the "bomb" sense? Are we talking hollow charges, or something with a solid penetrator?
Posted by: Dar   2007-02-26 17:07  

#5  
Candygram for AHMAWANNAWEINER!
Posted by: doc   2007-02-26 17:02  

#4  "Return to Sender"
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-02-26 14:02  

#3  Great idea, 'moose. And, allow the profit to be given to the Iraqi people. A two-for-one win-win type situation.
Posted by: BA   2007-02-26 13:55  

#2  Hopefully, instead of blowing them up, they make their way to Baluchistan.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-02-26 12:56  

#1  That many that won't be used against the troops. Good catch!
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-02-26 12:31  

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