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This is what an IED looks like when it goes off in the middle of your convoy.
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| 9/20/07
Posted on 09/20/2007 12:58:42 PM PDT by finnman69
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To: RedRover
Got my heart rate up. Can't imagine what that was like in person. Thank God it missed. Ditto, times a lot!
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posted on
09/20/2007 3:09:34 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: IronJack
The bombers were lazy. Instead of digging they placed it in an existing drainage culvert that went under the road.
Of course, an explosion tends to follow the path of least resistance...in this case the open ends of the culvert more than the sand and asphalt of the road above.
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posted on
09/20/2007 3:48:24 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: finnman69
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posted on
09/20/2007 3:48:41 PM PDT
by
badgerlandjim
(Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
To: SlowBoat407
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. That's one of their tricks,and how the goodguys spot them early. The muzzies set gas fires on the road to soften up the asphalt which they then dig out, pack with a bomb, and then back fill with fresh asphalt. Luckily it leaves a heat spot than can be seen on infra red.
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posted on
09/20/2007 4:01:33 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: finnman69
self-ping to show husband later.
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posted on
09/20/2007 5:31:15 PM PDT
by
Grenada
To: finnman69
Man that looked like something out of a cheesy 80s horror flick.
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posted on
09/20/2007 5:32:42 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt presidential candidate to ever run for office)
To: SlowBoat407
>>>
Is it my imagination, or does it look like the bomb was somehow “paved over”? <<<
My guess is that the IED placement team placed it too low down in the gully beside the raised road - basically it had so much dirt & pavement to blow out of the way to get to the target, it was ineffective....thanks God!
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:07:40 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
To: WBL 1952
>>>
...and only the one fused actually went off ...<<<
Good theory - plus see my post #28 above - I think they were too deep down the gully side of the road. Had to lift too much dirt above the placement site.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:13:59 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
To: finnman69
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:16:04 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Hoping my 'carbon footprint' has crushed a few liberals)
To: finnman69
this one is better and has a real happy ending...
d'oh!
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posted on
09/20/2007 7:59:17 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
To: Squeako
ya bastid, ya beat me to it!!! hahahahaha
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posted on
09/20/2007 8:00:39 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
To: finnman69
These things scare the bejeebers out of me - my grandson's 'outside the wire"
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posted on
09/25/2007 3:25:24 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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