Taliban Makes IEDs Deadlier -- Washington Times
Nonmetallic components hard for U.S. troops to detect.
The Taliban has been building simpler, cheaper anti-personnel bombs made of hard-to-detect nonmetal components, increasing the number of lethal attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan, according to a confidential military report.
The shift in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) away from larger anti-armor bombs has allowed the Taliban to produce more weapons and hide them in more places as they strive to kill larger numbers of American forces in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province and other contested regions.
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My Comment: These are terrible weapons. Because of their non-metallic nature, they are very difficult to find and will be inflicting casualties many years after this conflict has ended.
The key to stopping these IEDs is surveillance and good intelligence. It was done successfully in Iraq .... with the proper manpower and resources there is no reason to believe that it cannot also be done in Afghanistan.
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