Bombers
Jul 11 2008, AP

U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents’ weapons, a “lob bomb” now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday in an Associated Press interview.

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Military vehicles are seen at a U.S.-Iraqi military outpost in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Friday, July 11, 2008, that was struck April 28 by an improved rocket-assisted mortar, a weapon that Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond told The Associated Press on...