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Militants come up with deadly new weapon in Iraq
Sep 9 2008, Balbhadra Rana

The Mahdi army in Iraq has added a new and simple yet lethal weapon to its armoury. It is the Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions, or IRAMs. The US army has termed it the ‘flying IEDs.’ It is a low-tech weapon that has a propane tank with...

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