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Excellent article. Lieutenant General Michael Barbero is an exception to the beltway Pentagon crowd. His personal dedication to saving the lives of young soldiers is unparalleled.
#2
It is an excellent article. The IED makers are almost like the makers of computer worms, malware, and viruses (one step ahead) except far more deadly. It seems like there is a need for a paradigm shift in the way IEDs are addressed to further reduce or eliminate these fatalities and devastating injuries. Some of these shifts have already occurred as indicated in the article such as the use of jammers. Small robots have been used but to what effect I don't know.
#3
A great reduction in IED's in the Stans could be achieved virtually overnight. Bomb the 3 or 4 huge fertilizer factories in Pakistan that produce the ammonium nitrate (AN) which is used in the IED.
No rocket science involved here, only the will to take action.
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Every main use of these relates to that problem with insurgencies of allowing a safe have, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, etc. I suspect if you deny these sanctuaries, the insurgents ability to produce IED's will be massive reduced as will influx of weapons and personnel.
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Problem is, Besoeker, that doesn't cut them off from their stockpiles of munitions, which they ALSO use in their bombs. And it definitely wouldn't cut them off from Pakistani weapons.
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If the Egyptian army succeeds in demolishing the underground smuggling tunnels that keep Hamas running, it could mark the end of the Islamists' rule over the Gaza Strip. But if Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tie the hands of the Egyptian army's generals and keep them from completing the mission, Hamas will become even stronger and wealthier.
The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor.
But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, there are at least 600 millionaires living in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper report also refutes the claim that the Gaza Strip has been facing a humanitarian crisis because of an Israeli blockade.
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Palestinians estimate that 25% of the Hamas government's budget comes from taxes imposed on the owners of the underground tunnels.
For example, Hamas has imposed a 25% tax and a $2000 fee on every car that is smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Hamas also charges $15 dollars for each ton of cement, eight cents for a pack of cigarettes and 50 cents for each liter of fuel smuggled through the tunnels.
I find that astounding. Send the Wall Street protesters to Gaza to protest these millionaires and Hamas. See where that gets em.
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