Sabotaging Pakistan’s Bomb Supply

The IED in Afghanistan. AFP

Pentagon Looks To Sabotage Pakistan’s Bomb Supply -- The Danger Room

The Pentagon’s bomb squad has a new idea to thwart Afghan insurgents’ weapon of choice: by adding chemicals that’d render its main ingredient non-explosive or even make it lethal to the bomb builders themselves.

The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO, wants to tamper with the supplies of fertilizer, the primary component in the bombs that have killed 719 American soldiers in Afghanistan since 2001. One small problem: Most of the 480,000 pounds of fertilizer used in Afghanistan’s bombs is smuggled out of Pakistan, and U.S. officials have hardly convinced that country to clamp down.

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My Comment: I am sure the Taliban will find alternative supplies .... but I say why make it easier for them.