Insurgents thinking bigger in attacks

Insurgents thinking bigger in attacks
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/gnsbiggerattacks070227/

{EXCERPT} Report: IEDs down 20 percent since security crackdown, By
Rick Jervis - USA Today Posted : Tuesday Feb 27, 2007 8:40:57 EST

BAGHDAD ? Troops from Maj. Jeremy Siegrist?s battalion were following
up a tip recently when they came across something odd: two
restaurant-sized freezers sitting in the middle of a palm grove.

The freezers? contents were even more surprising. Inside, the troops
found 150 copper plates, C-4 plastic explosive and plastic tube
sections ? key ingredients in making the deadly, armor-piercing
roadside bombs known as explosively formed projectiles.

The amount of material suggested Iraqi militants have learned how to
mass-produce EFPs, rather than only import them pre-made from Iran,
Siegrist said Monday.

?It?s a huge step? for the militants, he said.

The increase...

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