Exclusive: Enter America's Repository of Pain, 100,000 Weapons of War -- ABC News
Just outside the nation's capital, amid suburban trappings like yogurt shops and yoga studios, chain sports bars and fast food franchises, sits a nondescript building few could guess contains the legacy of two wars terrorists fought with hidden bombs.
It's the FBI's repository of pain.
Inside the brightly-lit and highly secure warehouse that evokes "Raiders of The Lost Ark", the Bureau has neatly stockpiled a "bomb library" of 100,000 remnants of improvised explosive devices, called IEDs, recovered by the U.S. military from battlegrounds mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Update #1: Weapons of war: Inside America's secret 'bomb library' housing 100,000 IEDs from Afghanistan and Iraq to hunt down terrorists -- Daily Mail
Update #2: FBI has ‘bomb library’ with over 100,000 IEDs -- Guns.com
My Comment: 100,000 ieds collected in the past decade .... that is a staggering number of ieds.
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