Posted on 09/20/2007 12:58:42 PM PDT by finnman69
Near miss IED. A 4 letter word is understandibly shouted at the end of this clip. Fortunately it was a miss.
I’m thinking these soldiers are alive because these bombers are incompetent. It looks to me like the bomb was simply buried too deep, and spent too much of its energy uselessly. Otherwise, we’d be looking at a funeral video.
Keep in mind that this IED was probably either directly manufactured in Iran or the technical specs were provided by Iran. And Ahmanutjob wants to go to ground zero!
That was an Americanized version of Holy Shi’ite.
LOL
Might be of interest. Thank God it missed.
That’s what I was thinking. Looked like even if the truck was right on top of it probably would have upended the truck giving passengers bumps, bruises, and maybe a broken bone. Glad these guys were okay.
Bingo! Thankfully the IED placement team was more successful at excavating dirt than blowing up a Stryker or truck with our guys in it!
Too close for comfort - but close enough for prayers!
I am guessing that all the charge never went off. It might have been a cluster of artillery shells and only the one fused actually went off or it would have been a much more violent explosion.
Is it my imagination, or does it look like the bomb was somehow “paved over”? It looks like it’s punching through the asphalt, and that raises a whole lot of other questions, if that’s the case.
Two four-letter words.
someone forwarded this video to me in an email:
Subject: A close call 9 Sept 2007....
A video from a Michigan State Trooper assigned in Iraq.
Everyone,
Yesterday was a very interesting day for me. As you can see from the
attached video clip, my vehicle was engaged by an IED that was concealed
in a culvert under the road. Thankfully the bad guys can’t time our
vehicles very well. If you look closely, you can see an object laying
in the gravel on the left side of the road just before the detonation.
Sort of an aiming stake for the bad guys. We didn’t see it initially.
The engineers later found a 600 meter long command wire running from the
culvert to a vacant building near by. We were unable to positively
identify anyone after the detonation, so the bad guy(s) got away.
Unknown as to how much explosive was used. Rush hour on I-65 doesn’t
sound so bad right now.
Just damn!
Great video, loved the last bit: "this things gotta go" bakakaak - building blows up
I beleive their angels were watching over them.
I said the exact same thing at the same time when I watched the video.
Thanks, that was refreshing........
I think they planted it to deep or it was in a culvert or drain pipe under the road....thank God!
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