Taliban make 'undetectable' bombs out of wood

[StarfarerBill]

By Andrew Johnson, IndependentUK

Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week.

IEDs have proved the Taliban's most deadly weapon: three out of five coalition troops killed last year in Afghanistan were victims of the bombs. At least 48 of the 108 British fatalities were caused by IEDs.

Chris Hunter, a former bomb disposal expert who served in Iraq and now runs his own consultancy said the new weapons were being manufactured from wood in Pakistan.

"The expertise for this new generation of bombs is likely to be coming from foreign fighters from places such as Chechnya," he said. "But they are being mass produced in Pakistan and are being wheeled out on an industrial level. You see them everywhere."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-make-undetectable-bombs-out-of-wood-1863353.html

[BeFree]

1. Invade Checnya!

After Pakistan!!

Something tells me this really is WW3.

[FarCenter]

2. I wouldn't think that these are very effective

Ammonium nitrate is not a high explosive.

I think you need a copper disk to form the molten copper jet in order to pierce armor.

These must be non-magnetic anti-personnel mines. Armies have been using plastic mines with minimal metal for years.

[Vincardog]

3. How do we know this? Has someone gone on a factory tour? ... Rummy .... Rummy