Wednesday, August 31, 2011

AP IMPACT: Pakistani fertilizer fuels Afghan bombs (AP)

In this July 27, 2011 photo, sacks of fertilizer are held in wheelbarrows at Pakistani Chaman border post to be smuggled into the neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. government believes that most of the bombs killing its troops in Afghanistan are made with a chemical fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan and American officials have launched an intense and so far unsuccessful push for regulation. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP - The main ingredient in most of the homemade bombs that have killed hundreds of American troops in Afghanistan is fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan, where the U.S. has been pushing unsuccessfully for greater regulation.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110831/ap_on_bi_ge/as_pakistan_fatal_fertilizer

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