From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:38:20 +0000, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>>> Gee some "formable"/plastic explosive. A steel tube
with one end blocked
>>> (or indeed a strong cooking pan). A copper cone squidged into the PE at
>>> the unblocked end.
>>>
>>> How "sophisticated" is that?
>
>Yup & heck hezbollah used em against the Israelis in southern lebanon
>for years precisely because they were easy to make so long as you have
>good PE.

The devices are being manufactured inside Iraq and the military knows it.
Their C-in-C probably knows it too.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-cockburn16feb16,0,6714688.story?coll=
la-opinion-center
PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively
formed penetrators — EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S.
troops in Iraq — are made in Iran and exported to Iraq. But in November,
U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper
disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an
ongoing order. This ominous discovery, unreported until now, makes it clear
that Iraqi insurgents have no need to rely on Iran as the source of EFPs.

The truth is that EFPs are simple to make for anyone who knows how to do
it. Far from a sophisticated assembly operation that might require state
supervision, all that is required is one of those disks, some high-powered
explosive (which is easy to procure in Iraq) and a container, such as a
piece of pipe. I asked a Pentagon analyst specializing in such devices how
much each one would cost to make. "Twenty bucks," he answered
after a brief calculation. "Thirty at most."

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