Journal SPAM: EFP = USD 30 13
The truth is that EFPs are simple to make for anyone who knows how to do it. Far from a sophisticated assembly operation that might require state supervision, all that is required is one of those disks, some high-powered explosive (which is easy to procure in Iraq) and a container, such as a piece of pipe. I asked a Pentagon analyst specializing in such devices how much each one would cost to make. "Twenty bucks," he answered after a brief calculation. "Thirty at most."
Weapon-vs-Armor, round bazillion (Score:2)
The discovery of a batch of mass-produced penetrators is bad, bad news.
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This situation is really heart wrenching, to me anyway it is.
On the one hand, you feel for inv
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Our guys dying. Is this not obvious?
Anyway, it won't end the war sooner. It might end US involvement sooner, but the war will likely continue.
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I'll have to wait to reply to your real post, just did a long one on TN and need to get back to work.
for now-just ask yourself-who profits? And then ask yourself-for the government fairy tale to be true, because you need that as a full belief to analyse it "that way", you need to also swallow two more *things*. OBL and crew would have HAD to have the political juice to get the normal NORAD hijacked planes action plan *canceled*, because they certainly didn't do ANY
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Couldn't be simpler
1) Create "enemy"
2) Hire "enemy" to attack
3) Make war on somebody, anybody, to create illusion of taking action. Remember, war is good business. Otherwise the arms industry wouldn't be doing so well.
4) Profit!
Do we really care who's doing it? I mean, other than the fact that it's the guy we put in
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There was a NYT article - with no attributions - asserting this case. It was penned by Judy Miller's co-author on the "Steel Tubes" article about Iraq and centrifuges.
This pretty much seals the argument that this is another intelligence "plant" in the media, with no factual basis.