More tails from the front near Baghdad

This one is from a reporter on location. Thought you would like a eyewitness account of a bomb defusement:

Snip:

Outside Baghdad, a close encounter with a roadside bomb
Marines setting out at night to engage Iraqi insurgents get waylaid by a hidden explosive and call in back up to defuse it.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

HASWAH, IRAQ – Attacked four nights in a row while on patrol in this hostile town, US marines rolled out late Tuesday, deliberately preparing to pick a fight.

But instead of targeting the Americans with bullets and grenades, Iraqi insurgents laid another surprise: A softly blinking blue cellphone hidden in a bush, wired and taped as a detonator, and linked to a long red detonation cord that disappeared into the cab of a burned-out oil tanker on the side of the road...