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To: BJClinton
What is UXBs? Unexploded bombs? If so, that's what I was wondering when the mention was made of "controlled explosions." Or, maybe, for some other safety reason, to keep people out of that area.
2,703 posted on 07/07/2005 7:34:40 AM PDT by hummingbird ("The world needs more Steel Magnolias like Beth Holloway.")
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To: hummingbird

Plus all of the briefcases, backpacks etc left behind will have to be destroyed.


2,733 posted on 07/07/2005 7:39:42 AM PDT by BJClinton (The Islamofscists hate Western Civilization just slightly more than Leftists.)
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To: hummingbird

UXB does mean "unexploded bomb". It's a term from WWII. They were finding them years after the war ended, and had teams of defusers to deal with them.


2,750 posted on 07/07/2005 7:41:44 AM PDT by Eepsy
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