Employees at Mr. Salaf's shop show one of the more than 5,000 videos they sell, of Mr. Sadr's fighters launching rockets at American bases and setting off mines targeting American convoys, to a martial drumbeat.
SILSBEE, Texas — Normally, the airmen of the Navy's HM-14 unit spend their days deliberately setting off mines.
But according to Ron Verhagen, the chief scientist at Apopo, rats offer a number of advantages when it comes to locating mines.First, despite their impressive size for a rodent (25cm from nose to tail when full grown), they are too light to set off mines if they tread on them.
The US Navy has been fooling around with putting some of those underwater robots on small boats, acting as motherships (motherboats?) that can transit to and from a minefield without setting off the mines, making it a lot easier to get the underwater robots to their mine warfare work sites without having to do the same with your nice new ship.
For an Orthodox day-school or yeshiva, however, the subject is a land mine that many principals, teachers and parents would sooner avoid than risk setting off.
A soldier tripped a mine, shattering his leg and wounding the colonel, who crawled atop the thrashing victim to stop him from setting off more mines.
Twenty marines were nearby, 11 of them wounded, one already dead, and the other 8 in place, fearful of setting off additional mines if they moved.
But setting off buried mines is not always the best option.Technology Quarterly A new bug killer Yours to cut out and keep Pumping heat Smooth operator You're in my browser Inside a 1,000mph car Not yet picture perfect The high-tech world of old-world watches The retro rocket look Minehunting with radar and rats Nanosats are go!
Two company officers had been wounded and two soldiers were trapped, fearful of setting off more mines.
Legend holds that the town site was discovered after a jackass belonging to Noah Kellogg kicked over a hunk of galena ore, setting off a mining rush.
One of the soldiers who replaced them hit a trip wire, setting off a mine that had been placed in a tree so that it would detonate at face level.
