MB Civic

By Rick Atkinson | Sunday, September 30, 2007 | The Washington Post

The calamitous war in Iraq has given birth to a new kind of warfare. The term ‘improvised explosive device’ makes one think of a crude Rube Goldberg style gizmo, but for the last year, over 100 times a day, one of these increasingly sophisticated weapons is either discovered or exploded, frequently producing a massive, armor-piercing blast with horrific loss of life and mutilation. From the front page of today’s Washington Post, this piece is the first of five parts. The second part is right after this one on MB-CIVIC…BS

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