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18 October 2021 | Issue 217 |  www.counteriedreport.com

LATEST NEWS Myanmar Capital Hit by Another Bomb Blast at Local Administration Office   NYPD’s newest canine members specially bred to sniff out explosives in seconds   Somalia: Mayor among the dead in police station bombing in Beletwyene   Citizen-Soldiers of 202nd Ordnance Company embark on overseas deployment   Philippines: Bomb-making materials seized in Cavite province   California Highway Patrol graduates 10 new K9 teams   INTERPOL statement on lifting corrective measures applied to Syria Landmine kills one on Kurdistan Region-Iran border   Two Turkish soldiers killed, five wounded in Syria’s Idlib   Afghanistan: Deadly blast hits Shiite mosque in Kandahar during Friday prayers   Afghanistan: Blast in Kunar province kills Taliban commander, injures 11   Spanish Police Arrests 5 Jihadists On Suspicion Of Preparing A Terrorist Attack   North Carolina: Multiple people detained after authorities find pipe bombs, drugs & firearms in search   The aunav.NEO robot’s first presentation in Europe at MILIPOL and FEINDEF Supreme Court appears likely to allow death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber   Cambodia: Massive Mark 82 bomb retrieved by CMAC in Kampong Chhnang province   Colorado : Loveland veteran with PTSD seeks leniency in sentencing for building anti-police pipe bombs   Somalia: Over 6 killed as 2 separate terror attacks hit Mogadishu Vidisco awarded $30 million contract to supply U.S. Air Force with Guardian 12 Digital Radiographic X-ray systems, for explosive detection  Kenya: KDF soldier injured in suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu   Colombia governor says he escaped two armed attacks in 24 hours UK DASA and Innovate UK announce new Defence funding competition   Philippines: Thousands of dynamites intended to harm soldiers seized in Bukidnon   Kosovo Arrests Five Suspects for Plotting Terrorist Attacks   Philippines: Army disposes 77 IHL-banned APMs seized from CPP-NPA in Mindanao   India: NIA arrests two militants in multiple raids in Kashmir Valley   Yemen: Six killed in Aden car bombing targeting officials   AU, Somali forces sharpen skills to curb threats posed by explosive devices Cambodia: Child killed, two injured in mortar round explosion in Kampong Thom province   UK funding for land mine clearance scrapped in Lebanon, Iraq and S. Sudan   Afghanistan: Deadly explosion kills and wounds worshipers in Northern Kunduz Province   Afghanistan: ISIS-K suicide bomber who carried out deadly Kabul airport attack had been released from prison days earlier   India: Man held for planting IED bomb in front of the National People’s Party office in Shillong   Texas: TSA Explosive Detection Canines are trained in San Antonio BOOK YOUR ADVERT IN Winter 2021/22 EDITION Reach 1000's of decision makers in Defence, Law Enforcement, Government, Intergovernmental Organisations and Humanitarian Demining community worldwide by sharing your content and advertising in the Counter-IED Report magazine, newsletter and website. For more information and media kit please call +44 (0) 203 432 2015 or email us. FEATURED ARTICLES SIDE TO SIDE OR TOP DOWN John Howell, IED/EOD Security Specialist at 3DX-Ray, looks at why scanning vehicles from the top down makes more sense and why the ThreatScan® is the perfect tool for the job! EOD HELMET PROTECTION IN SMALL BLAST SCENARIOS By Aris Makris, Ph.D., Ming Cheng, Ph.D., Jean-Philippe Dionne, Ph.D., Jeffrey Levine, M.Eng., R&D and Engineering, Med-Eng

FEATURED PRESS RELEASES The aunav.NEO robot’s first presentation in Europe at MILIPOL and FEINDEF Vidisco awarded $30 million contract to supply U.S. Air Force with Guardian 12 Digital Radiographic X-ray systems, for explosive detection L3Harris Marks 100 Years in UK with Commitments to Armed Forces Community and Defence and Security Capabilities SCANNA STRIKES GOLD At 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 3DX-Ray Wins Important US Bomb Squad Contracts 3DX-Ray wins contract to supply an important UK Police Force with four ThreatScan®-LSC Systems ICOR Technology announces acquisition of Proparms Limited

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