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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (243994)	10/4/2007 6:13:30 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

The Afghans are wonderful practical engineers. Afghan gunsmiths have been known to make a Kalashnikov copy from a piece of railroad track. I'm sure they could make a roadside bomb with a shaped charge. Shaped charges are old, WWII technology. Many anti-armor tank shells employ shaped charges, which the Afghans would be familiar with. So do rocket propelled grenades (RPG's) and bazooka shells. 72.14.253.104 "But the Afghans, like the Swiss, are a proud and independent mountain people who have maintained their freedom for centuries through force of arms. The gun culture of Afghanistan is as strong as any on the planet. The Afghans had a long tradition of expert gunsmithing. Using tools inferior to those in the Sears catalogue, Afghan gunsmiths began turning out home-made versions of the Soviet army's Kalashnikov rifles. Pakistani gunsmiths across the border found a lucrative business in selling home-made guns to the rebels." en.wikipedia.org