http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ied/ en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:21:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276583/posts ST. PAUL (AP) ― Click to enlarge1 of 1 Father Tim Vakoc, who was critically wounded in a roadside bomb attack near Mosul, Iraq in May 2004. CBS Close numSlides of totalImages Related StoriesFamily Fights VA For Pulling Chaplain's Benefits (11/14/2007) Priest Wounded In Iraq Continues Recovery (8/29/2006) Related LinksRead More Minnesota News A Minnesota priest who was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq five years ago has died, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis confirmed Sunday. The Rev. Tim Vakoc was 49. He died at a nursing home in suburban New Hope about 8... wcco http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276583/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271832/posts One Canadian soldier killed in an explosive device strikeCEFCOM NR–09.015 - June 14, 2009OTTAWA - A Canadian soldier was killed as a result of an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED). The incident occurred in the vicinity of Panjwayi District, approximately 20 km southwest of Kandahar City at around 12:30 p.m., Kandahar time, June 14, 2009. Killed in action was Corporal Martin Dubé from the 5e Régiment de genie de combat based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier near Quebec City. He was serving as a member of the Joint Task Force Headquarters. Corporal Dubé was responding to a call... DND/Canadian Forces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271832/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:25:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2263608/posts I just heard from my daughter, Rebecca (his wife). They are trying to remove fragments from the spinal cord. He still has no feelings in the lower legs or feet. He will be coming into Walter Reid next week. Thank you for all your prayers. Dusty was among the 10th Mountain Division soldiers wounded or killed last week in the IED attack. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2263608/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2261971/posts Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=102695 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Safety and Security Reports > Report Afghanistan: Threats to Bagram Airfield SAFETY & SECURITY South / Central Asia - Afghanistan 27 May 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 27 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: EMBASSY KABUL VICTORY DAY CLOSURE 22 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: KABUL SERENA HOTEL AND VICTORY DAY THREATS 11 Feb 2009 KABUL SUICIDE COMBINED-ARMS ATTACKS 11 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ATTACKS ON AFGHAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS 10 Feb 2009 AFGHANISTAN 2009 CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT U.S. Regional Security Office Kabul released the following... OSAC.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2261971/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258441/posts BAGHDAD (AP) — A roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy in western Iraq, killing three Americans, including a senior State Department official, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The blast killed Terence Barnich, the deputy director of the State Department's Iraq Transition Assistance Office in Baghdad, as well as a U.S. soldier and a civilian contractor as their convoy left a construction site near Fallujah on Monday, military and government officials said. Two others were wounded. Insurgents once held sway over the western province of Anbar, which was the scene of some of the deadliest fighting of the war. But violence fell... The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258441/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 17:10:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251208/posts Ariz. man was Vietnam vet who decided to re-enlist after 9/11 attacks PHOENIX - A 60-year-old Vietnam War veteran who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has become the oldest Army soldier to die in that conflict, the military said Thursday. MSNBC | AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251208/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 00:11:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248912/posts Members of the Iraqi and U.S. Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams prepare discovered ordnance for detonation during a joint EOD controlled detonation recently in Basrah. The U.S. forces trained the Iraqi Army Soldiers on proper detonation procedures. Photo by Staff Sgt. Carlos Burger, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. BASRAH — U.S. Soldiers took the opportunity to train their Iraqi counterparts in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) after hidden weapons were found here recently.  Before the two teams could perform a joint controlled detonation, they had the daunting task of identifying and inventorying every round.The EOD teams cataloged more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition;... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248912/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 00:35:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246761/posts THE most effective weapon terrorists have found to wield against us isn't the headline-grabbing suicide bomber or even the deadly roadside bomb, the IED. Such weapons can harm us, but they can't stop us. Terror's super-weapon is the lie. Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can't win. The casualty con's so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. It's been so successful that our enemies long ago transitioned to the next phase:... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246761/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 09:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227602/posts Ramallah - Palestinian security officials said on Sunday that they had found a Hamas bomb-making factory underneath a mosque in the occupied West Bank. "Security forces found a bomb-making factory inside a mosque in Qalqiliya," an Interior Ministry statement said. "Many of the bombs were ready to use and many of them were of industrial grade." News24.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227602/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223906/posts Some Soldiers seem to have a sixth sense at being able to spot improvised explosive devices, researchers found, while others were unable to see the deadly weapons hidden in brush or buried in the middle of a road. How and why only certain Soldiers could see IEDs was something the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization decided needed to be studied. So for the last 18 months a joint group of researchers has been striving to identify what particular skills, abilities and characteristics are needed to detect IEDs. DefenceTalk.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223906/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:36:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222521/posts Police: Man Found With IED Arrested; Home Searched Hazardous Materials Team Removes Chemicals From Pittsburgh Home PITTSBURGH -- SNIPPET: "When police searched the man's Parkview Street home in the city's Oakland neighborhood, they said officers found chemicals for making explosives devices. Police described the chemicals as extremely dangerous." PITTSBURGH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222521/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 01:12:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219576/posts AUSTRALIAN special forces and Afghan troops have killed a senior Taliban insurgent leader responsible for improvised explosive device (IED) and suicide attacks against Australian forces. Mullah Abdul Bari was known to have controlled suicide bombers, the training of foreign fighters and distribution of weapons, the Australian Defence Force's chief of joint operations Mark Evans said. Mullah Bari was also identified as a primary IED facilitator and was responsible for the coordination of device emplacement in Oruzgan province. "His weapons of choice were roadside bombs and suicide bombers and his death means that Taliban insurgents operating in the region have lost... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219576/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207873/posts WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 – Coalition and Iraqi forces arrested two suspected terrorists, seized weapons and destroyed thousands of pounds of explosives in operations in Iraq in the past five days, military officials reported. A Mosul special weapons and tactics team, aided by coalition forces, yesterday arrested two suspected terrorists listed on a Central Criminal Court of Iraq warrant in Ninevah province. When the team moved to arrest a third suspect, the suspect resisted with small-arms fire from inside a house. A SWAT member was shot in the leg, and an Iraqi woman was wounded. She was treated on site... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207873/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:26:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198825/posts Three Canadian Forces personnel killed and two injured in AfghanistanCEFCOM NR 09.004 - March 4, 2009OTTAWA – Three Canadian Forces personnel were killed and two were injured when an improvised explosive device detonated near an armoured vehicle during a patrol in the Arghandab District. The incident occurred northwest of Kandahar City at around 5:40 p.m., Kandahar time, on 3 March, 2009. The CF personnel were conducting security operations in the area when the explosion occurred. Killed in action were Warrant Officer Denis Raymond Brown, from The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, Corporal Dany Olivier Fortin, from 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at... DND/Canadian Forces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198825/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191118/posts British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan, The Telegraph can disclose. The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border. Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191118/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190676/posts British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan. The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border. Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week. In... Daily Telegraph (London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190676/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:51:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190405/posts British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan, The Telegraph can disclose. The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border. Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190405/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190376/posts BAGHDAD, Feb. 20, 2009 – The U.S. military fielded its 10,000th mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle in Iraq today during a ceremony on Camp Liberty, just 22 months after it was introduced into the theater of operations. Mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles sit in a row on the Camp Liberty, Iraq, fielding site, Feb. 20, 2009. The day marked the introduction of the 10,000th vehicle into Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher Gaylord  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Servicemembers and civilians from across Victory Base Complex gathered among rows of MRAPs at the largest fielding site in Iraq to acknowledge the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190376/posts#comment Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:34:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173021/posts BAGHDAD — Iraqi Police officers and members of the Sons of Iraq thwarted an improvised-explosive device attack and arrested five suspected terrorists Jan. 24 during a joint operation in Tarmiyah, northwest of Baghdad. IP and SoI apprehended two suspects attempting to emplace explosive devices that were strapped to a bicycle near a funeral site. After questioning the suspects, IP and SoI were led to a nearby cache containing propaganda, magnets, timers, homemade explosives, mortar fuses and batteries. The suspects also led the IP and SoI to a site suspected of housing other members of the IED cell where three more... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173021/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:31:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166813/posts It sounds like science fic­tion, but it is fact: On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghan­istan, robots are killing America’s ene­mies and sav­ing Ameri­can lives. But today’s Pack­Bots, Preda­tors, and Ravens are rela­tively prim­itive machines. The coming generation of “war-bots” will be im­mensely more sophisti­cated, and their devel­op­ment raises troubling new questions about how and when we wage ­war. There was little to warn of the danger ahead. The Iraqi insurgent had laid his ambush with great cunning. Hidden along the side of the road, the bomb looked like any other piece of trash. American soldiers call these ­jury-­rigged bombs... Wilson Quarterly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166813/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:17:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161660/posts Hamas plans to maximize civilian casualties "This map, confiscated Wednesday (Jan. 7) by IDF paratroopers operating in the north of Gaza, shows how Hamas uses an entire neighborhood, rigging it with explosive devices and putting the entire civilian population at great risk." "The map shows the al-Tatraa neighborhood in Gaza City divided into three areas of operation (red, blue and green). The dots on the map indicate where Hamas operatives had planted a variety of IEDs (improvised explosive devices), with the colors indicating the type of IED. Additional marks show sniper positions next to mosques. Next to the entrance... Internet Haganah http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161660/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156972/posts An Iraqi Army engineer navigates a Talon robot through a makeshift improvised explosive device training course at Combat Outpost Al Kindi, Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 30, 2008. Photo by Pfc. Adam Blazak, 11th Public Affairs Detachment. MOSUL — Various explosives are used by the enemy to disrupt or destroy the significant security gains made here by Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces. Coming across an IED isn’t a rarity here, and defeating these weapons is no easy task.  However, significant strides are being made.Simply put, “It’s intense every time,” said Loveland, Colo. native, Staff Sgt. Jeron Pilger, training cadre, 59th Mobility Augmentation... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156972/posts#comment Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:19:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155794/posts BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces partnered with U.S. Soldiers to confiscate eight enemy rifles and Iraqi Soldiers found and cleared an improvised explosive Dec. 28 in Baghdad’s Rashid district. At approximately noon, Iraqi Security Forces with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division confiscated seven AK-47 assault rifles and an SKS assault rifle during a combined operation in the Masafee community. They were partnered with Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, MND-B. At approximately 12:30 p.m., Iraqi Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155794/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152876/posts SCHWEINFURT, Germany, Dec. 22, 2008 – Danger lurks on every stretch of road in Iraq with the prospect of roadside bombs, which have taken a terrible toll on those serving downrange. Army Spc. Jake Altman knows very well the destruction they can cause. Army Spc. Jake Altman, wounded during his first deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007, is preparing to re-join his unit in Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Emily Athens  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. After serving two years in the Army, Altman deployed in 2006 with 9th Engineer Battalion, 172nd Infantry Brigade, stationed just north... Face of Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152876/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:08:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143192/posts UAV Predator takes out an IED emplacement team with a Hellfire Missile in Iraq. Military.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143192/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 03:09:47 GMT