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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 03 12:47:00 +0100
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MM> VH> They were equipped with little, dainty Italian 105s
MM> VH> that you could use for watch fobs.  For a demonstration, they took one
MM> VH> of them apart, floated the pieces by rubber boat across Medicine Bluff
MM> VH> Creek, climbed Medicine Bluff 4, assembled it on top and fired one
MM> VH> round.

MM>Sounds like the self-same 105's that the NZ Artillery replaced
MM>their 25 pounders with after Korea ... and played the same games
MM>with.  There was a 161 Battery here who specialized in getting
MM>into outlandish locations rapidly to provide very accurate
MM>support.

They were cute little things -- they could "squat" to lower their
silhouette for anti-tank work.  Of course, what good a low-velocity 105
would do in that role is beyond me.

MM> VH> Yeah, there is no shortage of fanatics willing to die for a crazy
MM> VH> cause.

MM>Someone must come up with a safe-ish way of triggering kami-kazi
MM>zealots off before they get into critical areas ... I see one was
MM>stopped successfully and partially de-bombed the other day - at
MM>the cost of losing a security section in a self-detonation.

MM>A walk-thru blast box that delivers a seriously massive EM pulse
MM>or two strikes me as a likely start...

The problem is, how do you get them to walk through it?

The variety of attack methods is endless, from mines, to
command-detonated bombs, to car bombs to suicide bombers -- afoot, in
cars, or in aircraft.

The only solution on the horizon is to root them out.  And to do that,
we have to isolate them, politically, culturally and financially.
Fortunately, we seem to be doing fairly well at that.