Israeli Technology to Help With IED Detection

The majority of servicemen, women, and civilians killed in Iraq are the result of IED's, Improvished Explosive Devices. Israel has a lot of experience with IED's and has developed an item which could help us in Iraq. No specifics are given regarding how it works.

At the end of last month, Brigadier General Joseph Votel, a boyish-looking, tall and smiling American, made an urgent request to an old friend of his from Washington - also a brigadier general, but in the Golani Brigade rather than the Rangers - Nitzan Nuriel, the chief of the foreign liaison department of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. So urgent was the message that the Pentagon didn't even update their military attache in Tel Aviv. Votel implored Nuriel to send him a top-secret item the IDF has
developed that could be useful in combating the improvised explosive devices (IED) used against U.S. forces in Iraq. IRIS

The Israelis have always been the true friends of the US in the Middle East. The swift response after the request was made by the US for their technology shows this. Let's all hope this will help in defending our troops against IEDs.