MISSAN, July 11 (VOI) – The Missan police received on Friday five updated explosives detectors while security personnel were offered training courses on how to use them under the Iraqi interior ministry’s supervision, a security official said.
“The ADE651 explosives detectors would be used at the entrances and exits of the province as well as main checkpoints,” Col. Subeih Baday, the Missan bomb squad chief, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
“There will be another batch of detectors to yet to be received by the bomb squad department during the next few months,” he added.
Large divisions of Iraqi army and police personnel flocked into Missan to launch Bashaer al-Salam security plan, taking  Batira airport, 10 km northwest of Amara, and the Missan sports playground as their headquarters.
The operation started on June 19 to track down gunmen and wanted men and to seize unlicensed weapons in the province.
Sitting on the Tigris River, Amara, the capital city of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.

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Missan – Voices of Iraq Saturday , 16 /08 /2008 Time 10:01:09
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