(Central Command Headquarters, Qatar-AP) — US forces are finding all sorts of improvised weapons in Iraq.
At a war briefing, Central Command spokesman Vincent Brooks said Iraqis have been guiding American troops to the weapons, which include so-called “suicide vests.”
Brooks says troops have found hundreds of such vests, in which explosives can be planted for suicide bombing attacks. He also says troops are finding marble coffee tables into which explosives have been inserted.
Brooks says it shows allied troops are still in danger from terrorists converting routine objects into weapons — and it shows that Saddam Hussein’s regime supported such terrorist tactics.
He says it’ll take “deliberate work” to root out the terrorists.
