The Israel Defense Forces displays weapons seized during a raid against Hamas in Gaza. The black “Shawaz” cone and disk-shaped EFPs and tan TC-6 land mines are shown on the left. The Israel Defense ...

ANDREW COCKBURN is the author of "Rumsfeld, His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy," published this month by Scribner. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed ...

There's no deadlier weapon in Iraq than explosively-formed projectiles, or EFPs. The number of these so-called "superbomb" attacks has reportedly fallen off recently (see David Axe's earlier, related ...

EFPs AND IRAN….Andrew Cockburn reports on how to make Explosively Formed Penetrators, the subject of much administration backpedaling recently: In November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop ...

Explosively Formed Penetrators-- so-called "superbombs" -- used to be rare. But they're spreading fast, reportedly being found in Kabul for the first time this week. Taliban leader Mullah Dadullahwas ...

ANDREW COCKBURN is the author of "Rumsfeld, His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy," published this month by Scribner. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed ...