Nothing new about IEDs. They are known as 'car bombs' or simply 'bombs.'
Organized, and also unorganized, crime has been putting them to use for quite a number of decades.
***Organized, and also unorganized, crime has been putting them to use for quite a number of decades. ***
I remember a WARNER BROS cartoon in which a very fat PROKY PIG thwarts a MAD BOMBER!