While in Afghanistan, the soldiers were assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Support Battalion and served in a variety of roles including providing infantry forces, searching for Improvised Explosive Devices, and working with the Afghan Security Forces.

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Ali Mamlouk, the newly appointed head of the national security bureau, and a colonel known only as Adnan provided improvised explosive devices to Lebanese politician Michel Samaha, who faces the same charges.

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Security planners have drawn up procedures to deal with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers and the use of a weapon of mass destruction.

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