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'Unique, strange, and terrible' -- ISIS may have recently created a new type of bomb
Business Insider ^ | July 29, 2016 | David Choi

Posted on 07/29/2016 8:13:11 AM PDT by huldah1776

On July 3, 292 Iraqis lost their lives in ISIS’ deadliest attack thus far.

In a crowded street in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) was detonated after midnight, causing nearby dwellings to be engulfed in flames.

Many residents were trapped inside the inferno and burned to death — it was estimated that merely 20 to 30 people had perished from the initial explosion.

But investigators at the scene are now concerned with another potential threat: A new type of bomb may have been developed and used by the terrorist group.

“We’ve never seen it before, and it’s very worrying,” a Western security source in Baghdad told the BBC.

So far, investigators have determined that the type of explosives and the way the chemicals were assembled in the van differed from the traditional methods inside the war-torn country.

This may explain how the explosion from the VBIED had left no distinctive crater, and that the impact from the initial explosion left buildings in the neighbourhood still intact.

Explosive experts explained to the BBC that the chemical composition was unique and that it was difficult to make.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; isis; isisbomb; military; newbomb; terrorism; vbied
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To: Slings and Arrows

As good a reason as any.


41 posted on 07/29/2016 1:04:01 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: huldah1776

“Well its big, and terrible. More frightening than I ever thought possible.”


42 posted on 07/29/2016 1:07:52 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Lera

43 posted on 07/29/2016 2:27:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

All your bases are belong to us

lol


44 posted on 07/29/2016 3:44:19 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

LOL


45 posted on 07/29/2016 4:32:39 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: PIF

Thermobaric - possibly. However, the Russians are using a new type of large artillery shell against the Ukrainian Army that not only explodes the shell into fragments but also blowtorches anyone in its blast radius. Saw some photos of the killed Ukrainian Army soldiers who took apparently direct/near direct hits.

They looked like toast.

Meanwhile we send our allies John Kerry, a dud.


46 posted on 07/29/2016 4:36:53 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; Gamecock; Slings and Arrows
There is another possibility.

Fougade is related to fougueux. Fougueux can be variously translated as fiery, spirited, impetuous, mettlesome, or mettled depending on its context. This would make sense in linking the word to a land mine.

I would not be surprised to find a linguistic connection to the word fugue as it is used in music and psychiatry.

I can't drink for medical reasons so you can split my drinks with Slings and Arrows.


See if you can reason with Hurricane season

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47 posted on 07/29/2016 5:17:20 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

I think we’re talking about the same root word here, whatever the exact spellings might be, with a reasonable connection of the meaning to a land mine, or even to a test bread to see how fiery an oven is.

I’ll have a snort on your behalf.


48 posted on 07/29/2016 5:59:02 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Lera
Bring more of them in , give them housing , an EBT card , and a check . Spend millions more on homeland security to follow them around and watch them blow up Americans. /s

Oh wait that is exactly what the brilliant minds that run our government are already doing.

His name is Hussein, his job is to flood the west with peaceful Muslims.

49 posted on 07/29/2016 6:21:17 PM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terroristdo if he were made POTUS? ANS: Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing!)
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To: PIF

So the effect is similar to a neutron bomb? The buildings can remain standing?


50 posted on 07/29/2016 8:53:08 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Squantos

The overpressure knocking down interior walls and scattering paper etc would add a lot of extremely flammable fuel to continue the fire from the flash ignition. Enough to get the wood burning, and then it’s just a conventional fire over a city block. Truck placement seems to have been on a major street with multi-story mall/shops on both sides. “Upscale” to target the Shia elites.


51 posted on 07/30/2016 6:07:48 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

True, just what I was eluding to. If exterior walls, cars, brick, dirt etc were burning then a flammable napalm or foogass type device was used versus a fuel air based over pressure blast that would damage yet all fires would be secondary such as you describe.


52 posted on 07/30/2016 7:16:52 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: BenLurkin

bkmk


53 posted on 07/30/2016 8:45:07 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Better just print out the entire thread . Because the information is only good for as long as those links are active


54 posted on 07/30/2016 8:57:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: huldah1776

What is to stop ISIS from constructing such bombs here?


55 posted on 07/30/2016 10:26:22 AM PDT by Gritty ("Our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity and it's love" - A/G Loretta Lynch)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

That would be the TOSS 1A system and is themobaric - launches 10-15 tubes.


56 posted on 07/30/2016 12:53:11 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mumblypeg

Thermobaric sucks all the air out and then returns it with a fuel mix that is ignited crisping all in range. Buildings will stand if they are explosion and fire proof.

Think of an arty flame thrower.


57 posted on 07/30/2016 1:05:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Thanks. Now why can’t I learn to explain anything so succinctly? :-)


58 posted on 07/30/2016 1:55:59 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Squantos; Travis McGee
True, just what I was eluding to. If exterior walls, cars, brick, dirt etc were burning then a flammable napalm or foogass type device was used versus a fuel air based over pressure blast that would damage yet all fires would be secondary such as you describe

Maybe. Or maybe they've come up with an explosive/incendiary, an overgrown version of the WWII SAS *Lewes Bomb* that both ruptured the fuel lines and tanks of parked German aircraft and ignited them. Used 808 P.E, thermite and lube oil as a binder as I recall. The previous SAS aircraft demo charge was about shoebox-sized and weighed about twelve pounds; Jock Lewes' improved bomb named for its daddy was about the size of a tennisball and weighed about four pounds; one four-man jeep crew could carry enough of the things to spoil an entire front-line airbase worth of near-irreplaceable aircraft.

It's fairly common to add aluminum powder to an explosive mix to get a thermobaric result; the jihadis may have decided to add in some oxidizer as well to get a longer-duration thermal ignition result as well. Ah, where's Gerry Hurst when you want to talk to him....


59 posted on 08/01/2016 11:03:58 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: Gritty
What is to stop ISIS from constructing such bombs here?

That would be against the law. Besides, theirs is a Religion of Peace.

60 posted on 08/01/2016 11:04:55 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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