Alex writes with an extract from an e-mail she received from a friend serving with the armed forces in Iraq (no names or places on request):

He says:
"Delightfully, the former regime loyalists have recently started mounting anti-personnel mines at head height on lamposts and detonate them as patrols go past....which is proving a little depressing at the moment, thankfully no-one has been hurt yet, but again one gets the feeling of inevitability given time..."