Military urged to help counter IEDs at home

Members of law enforcement prepare to place what ATF sources describe as a "water shot" in the apartment of alleged Aurora, Colo., gunman James Holmes. The "water shot" is placed near an IED and explodes. The blast is used to disable the IED.
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WASHINGTON — Devilish improvised explosive devices that have claimed the lives and limbs of thousands of American soldiers across Iraq and Afghanistan pose a growing threat across Texas and the United States, inciting calls for urgent cooperation between U.S. military experts who are familiar with the devices and civilian law enforcement officers who are not.
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, director of the Pentagon's so-called Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, alerted Congress in classified testimony this month to the mounting IED threat at home and the challenges his team faces trying to train stateside law enforcement agencies to detect, disarm and defeat IEDs.

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