Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Aid kills

'KABUL — International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban's most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday.'

What the article doesn't mention is that the EU ships the stuff in convenient 50kg sacks as part of their foreign aid program.