Big money ($7b) to stop big threat

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Pvt. Timothy Goldsmith, center, from 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, uses a mine detector to search for IEDs during a patrol near the village of Khesrow Olia in Arghandab Valley of Kandahar province on Jan. 3.


Big money to stop big threat
By Lance M. Bacon - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 17, 2011 5:34:12 EST

Last year was by far the deadliest for U.S. troops contending with improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, and Congress has responded with nearly $7 billion to defeat IEDs.