Free Republic

Hundreds of thousands of rusty munitions leftovers from the Iran-Iraq war are scattered across the green fields and gentle hills of the two countries' common border. Long ignored, they are now being harvested by insurgents who recycle them into crude but highly deadly bombs to use against U.S. and Iraqi troops. Saddam-era ordnance, repackaged as roadside bombs or bundled together to use in car bomb attacks, has been the leading killer of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Concerned about the growing trend, the military is paying Iraqis thousands of dollars for information about weapons caches.... The military has allocated hundreds of...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/8/02 Afghanistan, Kabul, Women Free, French soldiers, ordnance disposal; Israel, Gaza, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem; Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Cyprus =========== Afghanistan =========== In Kabul, University of Kabul first-year women science students were FREED BY THE USA. Because of public pressure, the women are forced to wear burqa, but remove them at school. Here they reburq themselves. In Kabul, at the plastic shoe factory. In Kabul, International Security Assistance Force and US soldiers patrol. Today, 11 terrorists got their justice after they attacked . In Kabul, French soldiers prepare and destroy ordnance found by...