"We are detonating ALL the ordinance we find over there."
How do the EOD guys know that they are not blowing up more of these little buggers with the regular stuff that looks the same?
If they are all unmarked like this one...we don't know.
IMHO the only thing that is saving them is that detonating them in the manner that they are it's preventing the Sarin from mixing properly and doing it's dirty work. No one has gotten sick because when the UXO is detonated there is a 1000 meter safety perimeter the soldiers have to stay outside. I went with them one day to cover UXO disposal. I was in the vehicle with the Staff Sgt. that pulled the trigger on a pile of UXO...at 800 meters from the blast we had shrapnel raining down on our vehicle like hailstones.