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Iraq
Bomb squad dismantles explosive belt in Fallujah
2019-07-03
Anbar (IraqiNews) Iraqi bomb squad managed, on Tuesday, to dismantle an boom belt belonging to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, in the city of Fallujah in Anbar Province.

Alsumaria News reported that Iraqi police reported the presence of a foreign item in Jolan Neighborhood, in the city of Fallujah.

The statement added that bomb squad immediately went to the mentioned area and found an boom belt from the remnants of the Islamic State group.

The bomb squad managed to dismantle the belt after founding it, the statement further explained.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Depends on what was around it, Richard. If located in an area where no loss of life, or serious property damage, would occur by the detonation, sure. You are correct that it isn't always cutting the storied 'Blue Wire'.

The tech would make that call.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-07-03 07:50  

#1  NO! Blow the thing in place Don't risk a tech's life.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2019-07-03 07:06  

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