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I hadn't seen these posted, and I hadn't even heard about this incident until finding these photos. In Iraq, a US 4th Infantry Division tank was destroyed (and two of the four man crew killed) when they rolled over three anti-tank mines, buried in the road, one on top of another. It sounds to me just like the method the Palis used to knock out a Merkava - so either the Palis have come to Iraq, or they have trained someone who is there.These photos are a little hard to look at, but unfortunately it needs to be done. I...

Landmine Kills US Soldier in Iraq VOA News 13 Oct 2003, 06:43 UTC   U.S. military officials in Iraq say an American soldier has been killed and another wounded in the northern part of the country. Military spokesman Major Gordon Tate says the incident took place late Sunday near the town of Bayji, when the soldiers' vehicle hit a landmine. The area is located at the northern edge of the so-called Sunni Triangle, which stetches south to Baghdad, and west to the city of Ramadi and is considered to be a hotbed of support for ousted Iraqi leadert Saddam Hussein....

A land mine explosion killed one BBC journalist and injured another in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the company said. Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian freelance cameraman for the British Broadcasting Corp., died instantly when he stepped on the mine as he climbed out of his car in Kifri, Iraq, at midday, the company said. Producer Stuart Hughes, 31, injured his foot in the explosion, while correspondent Jim Muir and their translator were unhurt, the BBC said. Hughes was being treated in a nearby American military hospital. They were part of a four-man BBC team filming at Kifri, a town in...