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2007-08-07 Iraq

Local resident brings large cache to Soldiers

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 JEEZ! Someone driving that load toward me might get a surprise! How do you tell the difference between a suicide bomber and a local delivering the contents of a cache?

Posted by crosspatch 2007-08-07 01:24|| 2007-08-07 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I bet there was some excitement for a while. They obviously prefer that you just TELL them about the cache, rather than delivering...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-08-07 01:56|| 2007-08-07 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL, Crosspatch, so true. Is there a "30 minutes or less or its free" guarantee on deliveries of these sort in Iraq?

Posted by BA 2007-08-07 08:37|| 2007-08-07 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Iraqis recycling. How quaint.

Err, I'll give ya 5 cents a pound for the whole load.

Posted by wxjames 2007-08-07 11:39|| 2007-08-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 EEP! talk about an EOD nightmare!

This yutz is prolly been working for the terrs, though. Prolly just wanted to score some reward money. No way this was the whole cache. Ther's more to be found where this truck load came from.

I hope they pulled him aside, and squeezed untill he talked. and immediately sent a patrol with an EOD team attached. Then paid the reward in full, plus interest.

Posted by N Guard 2007-08-07 13:22|| 2007-08-07 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine that. For some reason an Iraqi can handle this stuff without it exploding, but if the coalition gets their hands on it they have to blow it up in place because it's too dangerous to even look at.

Humor aside, why do I keep seeing in the news that the coaliton blows this stuff up in place instead of carting it off somewhere to be blown up or whatever? Is it because it is in the middle of nowhere and they want to make sure they get any nearby buried stuff? Can't they just disassemble it like the terrorists do?

Posted by gorb 2007-08-07 15:26|| 2007-08-07 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 There are several reasons. Sometimes there are fears that the cache could be boobytrapped. Sometimes the material is very old and has been buried for a long time and not suitable for use in being fired in the conventional sense. They can't really do anything with it other than blow it up anyway and if they can't see the complete cache to rule out boobytraps, they just blow it in place.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-08-07 17:15|| 2007-08-07 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Besides, it's more fun blowing it up in place.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-07 19:42|| 2007-08-07 19:42|| Front Page Top

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