Mine Probing Tool - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency

In December 2001 a team of CIA/DS&T officers used this tool to uncover a 2,400-pound Improvised Explosive Device (IED) buried in the dirt-covered roof of the governor’s palace at Kandahar—rendering it safe just minutes before it was set to detonate.


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