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In The News: Bomb Squad

A stuffed rhino peers out of a pocket of USAF senior airman Kyle Brown from Toledo, Ohio, member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, as USAF Staff Sgt. Joshua  Rickert,  from San Antonio, Texas, checks for improvised explosive devices in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (Pier Cito / Associated Press)
A stuffed rhino peers out of a pocket of USAF senior airman Kyle Brown from Toledo, Ohio, member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, as USAF Staff Sgt. Joshua Rickert, from San Antonio, Texas, checks for improvised explosive devices in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (Pier Cito / Associated Press)

A stuffed rhino peers out of a pocket of USAF senior airman Kyle Brown from Toledo, Ohio, member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, as USAF Staff Sgt. Joshua Rickert, from San Antonio, Texas, checks for improvised explosive devices in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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