Militants Turn to Small Bombs in Iraq Attacks - NYTimes.com

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By KATHERINE ZOEPF and MUDHAFER AL-HUSAINI
Published: November 13, 2008

BAGHDAD — They are usually no bigger than a man’s fist and attached to a magnet or a strip of gummy adhesive — thus the name “obwah lasica” in Arabic, or “sticky bomb.”
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A pamphlet handed out by the Iraqi authorities warning the public of the danger of so-called sticky bombs.
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Light, portable and easy to lay, sticky bombs are tucked quickly under the bumper of a car or into a chink in a blast wall. Since they are detonated remotely, they rarely harm the person who lays them. And as security in Baghdad has improved, the smal"