Did know there was such a device! We been begging for armor for vehicles and men. 10,000+ soldiers have been disabled from the IED's and most of the 2,400 soldiers have been killed by them. Why aren't ALL vehicles equiped with this jamming device?

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=385812006

A SCOTTISH soldier died in Iraq because a blunder meant equipment which would have saved his life had not been issued to his unit, a Ministry of Defence inquiry concluded yesterday.

Military police are investigating why an electronic jamming device, which could have prevented the detonation of the roadside bomb that killed Gordon Gentle, had not been installed on the Land Rover in which he was travelling, despite being available for two weeks.

The 19-year-old Royal Highland Fusilier, from Pollok in Glasgow, died instantly when his military convoy was hit by the blast in Basra on 28 June, 2004.

Yesterday his mother, Rose Gentle, said she held the Ministry of Defence responsible for her son's death.

A report by the Army's board of inquiry concluded that the bomb was almost certainly of a kind which should have been prevented from exploding.

British forces in Basra had been involved in a cat-and -mouse game with the bombers. As the British developed new methods of jamming the bombs, the insurgents introduced new ways of detonating them.

The Royal Highland Fusiliers should have been equipped with jamming devices capable of dealing with the latest threat. However, the report found that a mix-up between the regiment and the supply chain meant none had been collected.

Neither the regiment nor those responsible for supplying the equipment had admitted responsibility for the fatal error, the report said, and the army's special investigations branch is now conducting its own inquiry.

The report said that the supply chain had since been improved, with extra telephone calls and e-mail contact to ensure equipment was collected promptly.

Mrs Gentle, 43, said: "The equipment was there all along and it was never used.

"If they had fitted this electronic jamming device, my son would still be alive today. I hold them fully responsible."

Mrs Gentle, who has led a campaign to have British troops withdrawn from Iraq since her son's death, said:

"There is no comfort or closure for me in this report. Gordon was killed by neglect and I'm not prepared to let this go. I don't want any more MoD cover-ups."

The report also said that new body armour had since been issued to troops, which provided better protection for the neck and armpit area, although it conceded that full protection from a close-quarter explosion could not realistically be provided by lightweight body armour.

It found Fusilier Gentle had been wearing the right body armour but it had been penetrated by bomb fragments.

Commenting on the board's findings, John Reid, the Defence Secretary, said: "While every possible precaution is taken to protect service personnel, the unfortunate reality is that despite the best training, tactics and equipment, military operations are dangerous.

"Sadly, nothing can change what happened to Fusilier Gentle but I hope today's report will help his family and friends better understand events of that day."

The MoD said it would implement the changes recommended in the report quickly.

Well America has to develope their own, hell we wouldn't want to save money and buy it from someone else who already has it!

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White House Smears


WHITE HOUSE SMEARS. This is truly despicable. Yesterday in his speech at George Washington University, President Bush offered the latest chapter in the GOP's ongoing blame-the-press-for-Iraq narrative. Speaking of something called the Joint IED Neutralizer, which is meant to counter roadside bombs, Bush said this:
Earlier this year, a newspaper published details of a new anti-IED technology that was being developed. Within five days of the publication -- using details from that article -- the enemy had posted instructions for defeating this new technology on the Internet. We cannot let the enemy know how we're working to defeat him.
Bush didn't name the newspaper. But his aides subsequently leaked confirmation to the press that he was talking about the Los Angeles Times. And guess what: It turns out that Bush left out a small detail about the offending article in question. Turns out it was about the fact that some military officials were angry that this potentially life saving technology still hasn't been shipped to Iraq, ten months after Pentagon officials recommended investing in research and sending prototypes to Iraq for testing. Says the piece:
10 months later -- and after a prototype destroyed about 90% of the IEDs laid in its path during a battery of tests -- not a single JIN has been shipped to Iraq.
To many in the military, the delay in deploying the vehicles, which resemble souped-up, armor-plated golf carts, is a case study in the Pentagon's inability to bypass cumbersome peacetime procedures to meet the urgent demands of troops in the field. More than half of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq have been caused by roadside bombs, and the number of such attacks nearly doubled last year compared with 2004.

As for Bush's charge that the LA Times tipped off terrorists, a quick Google search shows that extensive information about the technology was all over the Internet well before the piece was published -- including at least one news report six months earlier that provided many of the same technological details the Times did. What's more, in its story today about Bush's broadside, the LA Times said:
The Times spoke to several Defense Department officials before the article appeared. None expressed concern that publication could endanger U.S. troops...Before Bush mentioned the report Monday, no U.S. officials had contacted The Times to raise those concerns.
So is Bush's allegation even true to begin with? We'll never know, unless perhaps the White House releases the URLs of the sites where terrorists allegedly traded on the Times's info.
Right now, here's what we do know: the White House smeared a major American newspaper as anti-troops -- because they published an article saying that some in the military were upset over delays in shipping new technology to Iraq that could combat the roadside bombs that kill and maim American soldiers every day. So who's really anti-troops here, again?