EFP's Made From Common Items In Middle East

    From The First Post we learn that just about anyone can make an EFP from common items found all over the middle east, not just in Iran.

   EFP's are what the Bush hounds are claiming the Iranians are supplying the Iraqi militia's with to kill the American troops with.

The improvised EFPs used as roadside bombs in Iraq most certainly don't need to have Iranian-manufactured components. All you need (so I am informed by Pierre Sprey, a former weapons designer with the A-10 and F-16 planes on his CV) is the copper bowl (a hand-beaten one like they sell to tourists all over the Middle East is fine), a 6" to 9"-diameter sewer pipe or oil pipe (the oil pipe is excellent quality steel), a few pounds of explosive and a fuse. The 380 tons of US RDX explosive that went missing due to lax security would be ultra-high quality stuff for the job.

The people doing almost all the killing of American troops in Iraq are not Shia but Sunni, therefore unlikely to have been supplied by Iran.

 

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11 Dead, 10 Wounded In Iraq On Monday Evening

From Voices Of Iraq

 Baghdad-Mortars
Posted by: saleem on Monday, February 19, 2007
Baghdad mortar attack leaves 11 dead, ten wounded
By Adel Fakher
Baghdad, Feb 19, (VOI)- At least 11 people were killed and ten others were wounded on Monday evening in a mortar attack at a residential area in southern Baghdad, a police source said.
"Five mortar rounds slammed today evening on a residential area in Abu-Tisher district in southern Baghdad, killing eleven people and wounding ten others," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
The source added "there were women and children among the casualties."
The attack also damaged four houses in the area, he added.
Ambulances rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, the source said.
The mortar attack came as a large-scale military operation was being carried out by Iraqi and U.S. troops to secure the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

         

Posted by: saleem on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 06:17 PM
Missan-Smuggling
Attempt to Smuggle oil and livestock foiled in Missan
Missan - Feb 19, (VOI) – Iraqi Police patrols foiled on Monday an attempt to smuggle semi-refined oil and livestock in north of Ammara city, a police source in Missan said.
"Police patrols foiled on Monday an attempt to smuggle two tank-trucks with 58,000 liters of semi-refined oil near Kumit checkpoint about 25 km north of Ammara city", the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Meanwhile, police patrols on Baghdad-Ammara international highway checkpoint, 5 km north of Ammara, seized a lorry with 50 livestock in preparation for smuggling abroad in contrary to Agriculture ministry instructions that banned sheep exports, he added.
Ammara, capital city of Missan province, is 380 km southeast of Baghdad.

   So goes another wonderfull day in the life of the Iraqis under the George Bush " protect & conquer " regime!

   Iraqi newspapers and such have some interesting stuff in them at times.  You may wish to check this one out.

 

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