'Taliban Making Deadlier, High-Tech IEDs', Daily Times, 16 September 2009
EXCERPT: "The Taliban have been making simpler, cheaper anti-personnel bombs made of hard-to-detect nonmetal components, increasing the number of lethal attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan, the Washington Times quoted a confidential military report as saying. The shift in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) away from larger anti-armour bombs has allowed the Taliban to produce more devices and hide them in more places as they strive to kill larger numbers of US forces in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province and other contested regions. The new Taliban tactics are disclosed in a confidential report from the Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organisation, portions of which were obtained by The Washington Times. The change in production from metal-dominated explosives to devices made of plastic is making it more difficult for ground troops to detect the buried IEDs with portable mine-detectors, creating an 'urgent need' inside the Pentagon for better detection devices, the report said."
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See also:
'Could troops in Afghanistan be better protected?', The Telegraph, 16 September 2009
'US military leader calls for resources to tackle Taliban', Financial Times, 16 September 2009
'Taliban tactics costly to Afghan civilians', Gulf Times, 16 September 2009
'IEDs wreak havoc among forces in Afghanistan', AFP, 5 September 2009
'Pentagon's urgent bid to counter Afghan roadside bombs', The Christian Science Monitor, 26 August 2009
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