U.S. forces haven't found Iraq's alleged weapons
of mass destruction, but they're literally stumbling
over a much more immediate threat: weapons of
individual instruction.

These are the mines, booby traps, rocket-propelled
grenade launchers, and Soviet-made automatic rifles
that are killing and wounding American soldiers
almost daily.

Pentagon reports on the 86 U.S. battle fatalities
since May 1, when President Bush declared an end
to major combat, show almost all involved light
arms or remote controled devices made of
patched-together hand grenades or plastic explosives
that regularly destroy Humvees and kill or maim
their occupants.

In strategic sections of Iraq, just about every
school, hospital, or Baath Party building that
U.S. forces come across is stacked high with
ammunition, according to General John Abizaid, overall
commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and elsewhere in
the Middle East.

The number of sites is a logistical nightmare for
the coalition, which can't remove the arms fast
enough and lacks manpower to guard all the caches.

Abizaid's military command estimates it will take
five years to destroy all the explosives already
confiscated.  Meanwhile, unguarded sites become
ready-made supply houses for guerrilla fighters.

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Le fortias armate del Statos Unite non ha trovate
le armas de destruction massive que le
administrationes
american e britannic insista que Saddam Hussein
celava in Iraq, ma illos constantemente incontra
un menacia multo plus periculose: armas de destruction
individual.

Istos es le minas, trappas furtive, granatas
propellite
per rocchettas, e carabinas automatic fabricate
per le sovieticos que occide e vulnera soldatos
american quasi diariemente.

Reportos per le Pentagono sur le 86 fatalitates
inter soldatos american desde le prime die de maio,
quando Bush declarava le fin del battalias principal
del guerra, monstra que quasi omne iste incidentes
involveva armas parve o bombas de construction
improvisate de granatas o explosivos plastic que
regularmente destrue vehiculos militar e occide
o injuria seriemente lor occupantes.

In areas strategic de Iraq, quasi omne schola,
hospital, o edificios del partito Baath incontrate
per le fortias armate statounitese es plen de
ammunition, secundo le General John Abizaid, le
commandante principal del fortias american in Iraq
e in le altere partes del Medio Oriente.

Le numero de sitos es un horribile problema logistic
pro le coalition, que non pote sequestrar le armas
assatis rapidemente e que simplemente non ha le
personal necesse pro guardar (los omnes) / (omne
illos) / (omne iste armas).

Le personal commandate per Abizaid estima que cinque
annos essera necesse pro destruer omne le explosivos
confiscate usque nunc.  Intertanto, sitos sin guardas
es de facile accesso pro guerrilleros qui vole usar
los in lor attaccos.

(Per John Diamond, USA Today, 30 septembre 2003)

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