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Defusing homemade Taliban bombs

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Improvised explosive devices pose a great threat to Nato forces in their campaign against insurgents in southern Afghanistan.

US explosives expert Col Mark Lee showed off some examples of the deadly devices to the BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner in Kandahar.

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