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Search and Destroy

The Pentagon’s losing battle against IEDs

By Andrew Cockburn

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[Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (U.S.)]
[Pentagon (Va.)]
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[Rules and practice]
[Tanos Chavez]
[United StatesDeptof Defense]

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