A Marine ran to safety as a homemade bomb exploded Monday in Helmand Province, Afghanistan; the blast killed two others. Manpreet Romana/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAfghan War’s Buried Bombs Put Risk in Every Step -- New York Times
FORWARD OPERATING BASE ALTIMUR, Afghanistan — The call came just after dinner: a pickup truck carrying Afghan national police officers had hit a buried bomb, and all five officers inside were dead.
When First Lt. James Brown and his team of bomb investigators arrived at the shredded remains of the truck, the grim significance of the attack became clear. One of the dead was a hard-charging commander who, more than any officer in this restive district of Logar Province, had helped fight a shadowy network of local bomb makers.
“If he wasn’t trying so hard, if he was taking bribes, taking naps, he’d be alive right now,” Lieutenant Brown said of the commander, Gul Alam.
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