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Canadian Army to Establish Counter IED Company

Ottawa : Canada | Jul 30, 2010 at 7:57 AM PDT

By Karl Gotthardt

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The Canadian Army will be training experts to detect and fight the networks that plant roadside bombs and booby traps in Afghanistan.

While the Canadian Army has some of the best Explosives experts in the world, a lack of more NATO troops in Kandahar made this task virtually impossible. With arrival of more U.S. troops in the area, Canadian troops can now concentrate on that.

The proposed Company will be made up of intelligence analysts and bomb disposal experts. Their mission will be to detect and track down and dismember the cells that build IEDs and booby traps.

So far this year 11 of the 13 deaths in Kandaha, and 92 of the 151 Canadian KIAs, since the war started in Afghanistan, are attributable to IEDs.

Canadian troops are very good at defeating the devices, but it will now expand the scope to training troops to eliminate the networks before they can plant the IED or bomb.

You can read more in the article by Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press.

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Karl Gotthardt is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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