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As July turns into the deadliest month ever for coalition soldiers in Afghanistan, NATO has revealed it's testing a new device to help detect roadside bombs -- those so called "improvised explosive devices" that have caused such carnage for Canadian and other foreign troops.
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Clearly feeling the heat as the death toll mounts, NATO is turning to technology to save lives.
"We at NATO have just started testing what, in essence, is a laser that can detect explosives ahead of a vehicle so that we can try to be better at protecting against that (violence)", NATO spokesperson James Appathurai told CTV News Channel in an interview from Brussels.
No further details were divulged, but it appears this is part of an effort by NATO to better explain why so many soldiers are dying, and what it is doing about it.
The death of Canadian Pte. Sebastien Courcy on July 15 pushed the number of coalition fatalities to a new record of 47 in one month, the highest since the war began and surpassing the previous high of 46 recorded in June and August 2008.
Since then it has grown to at least 56 troops, which include 5 Canadians, 30 Americans, 17 Britons, 2 Turks, an Italian and one soldier whose nationality was not disclosed.
The vast majority of the dead were killed by IEDs, which NATO said are becoming more sophisticated, and more powerful.
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Clearly feeling the heat as the death toll mounts, NATO is turning to technology to save lives.
"We at NATO have just started testing what, in essence, is a laser that can detect explosives ahead of a vehicle so that we can try to be better at protecting against that (violence)", NATO spokesperson James Appathurai told CTV News Channel in an interview from Brussels.
No further details were divulged, but it appears this is part of an effort by NATO to better explain why so many soldiers are dying, and what it is doing about it.
The death of Canadian Pte. Sebastien Courcy on July 15 pushed the number of coalition fatalities to a new record of 47 in one month, the highest since the war began and surpassing the previous high of 46 recorded in June and August 2008.
Since then it has grown to at least 56 troops, which include 5 Canadians, 30 Americans, 17 Britons, 2 Turks, an Italian and one soldier whose nationality was not disclosed.
The vast majority of the dead were killed by IEDs, which NATO said are becoming more sophisticated, and more powerful.
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