Lack of tips affecting efforts to stop roadside bombings in Iraq

PENTAGON Roadside bombs are the number one killer of American soldiers in Iraq. But the Pentagon says it's having a hard time countering the bombers -- in large part because tipsters aren't helping as much.

The retired general tapped to try and solve the bombing problem says intelligence is the key to defeating insurgents. But the help is drying up. The nearly six-thousand tips Iraqis gave on bombs and other issues plummeted to just 37-hundred in July.

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