[nw_arizona_granny]

"You need to find the right frequency in order to stop it," he said. "And
that's not easy, with all of these cell phones and garage door openers
being used to trigger the IEDs."

Instead, Goure believes, the most effective IED countermeasure might
be a pulse of electromagnetic energy that can "fry the circuits of these
bombs."

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We TM'ers knew about this, remember when the garage door openers all quit in Las Vegas, then wasn't it Florida?

All the radios in Seattle quit last year too.

LOL

As for anything as a bomb, does everyone remember the 4th of July warnings for black plastic bag bombs?

They were setting them off in Louisiana on the lakes, several of them.

In Seattle, there was a small fishing
boat that contained a black trash bag bomb.

A local fisherman, realized the boat was 'wrong' should not have been there and snagged it with his fish hook and kept it from hitting the big boats it was drifting toward.

This was in the summer, the Seattle PI, newspaper as I recall.

Either Labor Day or 4th of July, I remember warning my daughter to not go on a picnic and pull any bags out of the water, and the warning also included the Styrofoam ice chests.

Last year there was a gift of a teddy bear to a small boy,
Florida, the family was on vacation, in a motel.

A woman gave the bear to the little boy, and when they attempted to board the plane, the bear was found to have explosives in it.

The family was not charged, as they were simply a family doing Disney World or whatever it was.

[Revel]

"Instead, Goure believes, the most effective IED countermeasure might
be a pulse of electromagnetic energy that can "fry the circuits of these
bombs." "

Very foolish. The most likely result of this electromagnetic pulse is to short semiconductor components. The most likely result of that is to short(the same as turning on) the device that provides power to the detinator. In other words....Instant BOOM!