01-17-2005, 10:01 PM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by Manx
If IEDs are cowardly, so are smart bombs.
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Fair analogy.
I don't think the US military sees IEDs as 'cowardly. They are simply remote controlled landmines. Another nut for the experts to crack.
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The rise of the global terror, assisted by the proliferation of modern communications technology, introduced a shift from the familiar standard issue weapons, to the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The introduction of such makeshift weapons proliferated in Ireland, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon and by the Palestinians in the occupied territories. As evidently proved in Iraq and Chechnya, the use of such explosive devices is not adopted from lack of basic, standard issue weapons, but due to the tactical advantages of such systems, when employed by loosely organized urban guerilla cells. Unlike the mine which is triggered by pressure or magnetic influence, IEDs do not necessarily require physical contact or pressure for activation but can be activated by remote control, including wire, electronic signals or cellular phone. This mode of operation can be employed against selective targets, even on busy urban traffic lanes, as repeatedly demonstrated in Iraq. In fact, the IED has become the symbol of the modern urban guerilla.
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