US troops facing deadlier bombs in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A923F626-553F-4F7F-BE5C-77F0FE41A085.htm

More powerful bombs are being used to target US soldiers in Iraq, a senior Pentagon military official has said.


Army Brigadier General David Rodriguez on Friday said the trend of using more powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has become prominent over the last two weeks.

“We have notice in the recent couple of weeks that the IEDs are all being built more powerfully, with more explosive effort in a smaller number of IEDs,” Rodriguez told reporters at a Pentagon briefing.

His comments came a day after a roadside bomb targeted a US military convoy in Baghdad, killing seven soldiers.

“There are a lower number of IEDs, but they have been more powerful,” Rodriguez said.


....Gee, I wonder how they got their hands on such dangerous material?

:grr:

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. It couldn't be those missing explosive, could it?

Nah, MSM told us that US soldiers removed them, remember?

[DELUSIONAL]

2. Since bush is forcing them to stay -- perhaps tanks are needed

over there? But then the tanks are being destroyed too??

Get the hell out of there -- bring the troops home.

This is stupid -- no one could write a plot as stupid as is unfolding in Iraq. Except real people are dying.