Friday, July 18, 2003

FORTUNATELY WE FOUND THIS ONE.
U-S Army engineers have apparently defused what they describe as a huge homemade bomb found on a highway near the Baghdad airport.

It was discovered during a routine daybreak patrol not far from where a soldier was killed during an attack on a military vehicle earlier this week. The device was in a burlap sack inside a container used to make blocks of ice.

An army officer says it was wired to what he calls a remote-controlled doorbell ringer.

Another officer says the bomb was wired to what looked like two car batteries. He was helping to block traffic on roads near the bomb, snarling traffic throughout western Baghdad.

Soldiers searched nearby homes, but made no arrests.

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