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Mal etwas in Sachen alltäglicher Gewalt auf den Straßen Bagdads und über die "Kreativität der Terroristen", die allerdings auch ihre derzeitige schlechte Lage illustriert:

Militants Turn to Small Bombs in Iraq Attacks

By KATHERINE ZOEPF and MUDHAFER AL-HUSAINI
Published: November 13, 2008
BAGHDAD — They are usually no bigger than a man’s fist and attached to a magnet or a strip of gummy adhesive — thus the name “obwah lasica” in Arabic, or “sticky bomb.”

Light, portable and easy to lay, sticky bombs are tucked quickly under the bumper of a car or into a chink in a blast wall. Since they are detonated remotely, they rarely harm the person who lays them. And as security in Baghdad has improved, the small and furtive bomb — though less lethal than entire cars or even thick suicide belts packed with explosive — is fast becoming the device of choice for a range of insurgent groups.

They are also contributing, in the midst of an uptick in violence, to a growing feeling of unease in the capital.

Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/...bombs.html