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Iraq’s insurgent bazaars

Greg Grant, a journalist who recently reported from Iraq, has filed one of the most interesting and disturbing stories I have read on the Iraqi insurgency in Defense Technology International. Grant breaks down the mirco-markets that have formed for IEDs in Iraq. Information sharing among insurgents, in combination with these mirco-markets, are making IEDs more ...

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Greg Grant, a journalist who recently reported from Iraq, has filed one of the most interesting and disturbing stories I have read on the Iraqi insurgency in Defense Technology International. Grant breaks down the mirco-markets that have formed for IEDs in Iraq. Information sharing among insurgents, in combination with these mirco-markets, are making IEDs more technologically advanced and more deadly.

Greg Grant, a journalist who recently reported from Iraq, has filed one of the most interesting and disturbing stories I have read on the Iraqi insurgency in Defense Technology International. Grant breaks down the mirco-markets that have formed for IEDs in Iraq. Information sharing among insurgents, in combination with these mirco-markets, are making IEDs more technologically advanced and more deadly.
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