A specialist team of British bomb disposal experts is smashing a chilling legacy left across Syria by the late Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Long before US Commandos killed him last year the death-cult leader ordered the Middle East to be carpeted with deadly explosive devices primed to slaughter thousands after he was gone.
But former UK military bomb disposal veterans and local search teams, led by an ex-SAS bomb disposal expert, are inside the stricken country, operating under the noses of ISIS.
They have taken on the terrifying task of disposing of hundreds of thousands of buried Islamic State bombs, each one twice the size of the Manchester blast, three times that of the 7/7 attacks.
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