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Here are some rules that you should follow when planting a roadside bomb. Rule 1. After putting the bomb in the hole, do not, repeat, do not tamp the ground too much. Rule 2. Do not forget rule 1 FFS! This video of thermal image was taken from an AC-130 Gunship from about a mile away. No rounds were fired from the aircraft, some Islamic Jihadists were trying to bury a 155mm artillery round, they must have lost the instruction manual, or it was in English.See the video here.

BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers Thursday outside the main American military base in Baghdad in what U.S. officials said appeared to be another attack by Shiite militias hoping to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq. The attack follows the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq in two years. Fifteen U.S. soldiers died in June, nearly all in attacks by Shiite militias. ----- Thursday's bomb, which was detonated near a checkpoint outside Victory Base Camp, was a powerful armor-piercing explosive known as an EFP, according to two military officials with knowledge of the attack. EFPs typically...

IED stands for Improvised Explosive Device. I knew them as "Roadside bombs" when I served in the IDF. Then as now, IEDs are cowardly yet effective terrorist tools. You often hear or read about IED in the news in the context of an attack against our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. Unfortunately, these attacks are often successful and inflict damage to men and equipment. People often don't understand what an IED is and why they are so effective. IEDs are typically low tech explosive bundles. They contain an explosive charge and, at times, they are enhanced with nails or shotgun...

As America fights two wars overseas -- another one is raging, much closer to home. Mexico's drug war is every bit as violent. On Friday 43 people were indicted in San Diego for murder and kidnapping, including a Mexican government official. Outside Monterrey, Mexico, 23 bodies were found Thursday at a dump site used by drug gangs Mexico's drug war takes a dramatic and frightening turn. For the first time, drug gangsters used a car bomb as a weapon. The wounded man was a decoy dressed in a uniform to lure police to the bomb. An officer, a paramedic and...

SNIPPET: "It said the bomb exploded in the Kucukcekmece district on the outer edge of the western side of the city, as the bus was passing. The injured included at least two police officers as well as a number of civilians, Anatolia said. No immediate claim of responsibility was reported." SNIPPET: "Tuesday's bombing came as Turkey was hosting an Asian security meeting attended by leaders including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin."

THREE Australian soldiers were almost killed when their armoured vehicle was blasted by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Two other Diggers also were wounded in the devastating blast near the main Australian base at Tarin Kowt. The infantry soldiers from the 1st Mentoring Task Force were blown up during a routine patrol as summer approaches and the "killing season" begins in the war against the Taliban. The three critically wounded soldiers were treated by combat medics and flown by helicopter to a nearby Australian-US medical centre on Tuesday night.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Three Taliban militants were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely, as Afghan and foreign troops launched an operation to retake a neighboring Afghan town controlled by Taliban militants, officials said. The blast occurred in Kandahar, south of Kandahar city on a road frequently used by NATO and police forces, he said. In Musa Qala, ground forces surrounded the area and airstrikes targeted militants inside the town in the southern province of Helmand, defense ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said. "The operation has started," said Maj. Charles Anthony, a spokesman for...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Pentagon investigations into the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians are focused on about a dozen enlisted Marines and do not target their commanding officers, the lawyer for one of the officers said Tuesday. The investigations of up to two dozen killings and whether Marines covered them up are focused on the troops who were in a four-vehicle convoy hit by a roadside bomb last Nov. 19 in the western Iraqi city of Haditha, attorney Paul Hackett said. Meanwhile, Iraq’s prime minister said on Tuesday his patience was wearing thin with excuses from U.S. troops that they...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 – Afghan civilians were injured by rockets today in Bermel, Afghanistan, and Afghan and coalition forces detained seven terrorists during a combined operation yesterday, military officials reported. The civilians were injured when two rockets were fired at a coalition forward operating base in the town of Bermel in Paktika province. An Afghan woman and child near the forward operating base suffered shrapnel wounds and are being treated by coalition forces. "The extremists, who targeted coalition forces and wounded these innocent civilians, committed an atrocious act. Rockets are indiscriminate killers used by the enemy who care nothing...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq on Wednesday when roadside bombs struck the vehicles in which they were traveling, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Four U.S. soldiers were killed in the Iraqi town of Hawija while on patrol, the military said. Three U.S. soldiers were killed near the Iraqi town of Balad when their vehicle struck another roadside bomb. The deaths bring to 2,287 the number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led war that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Roadside bombs are some of the most...

TWO SAS soldiers rescued last week after being arrested by Iraqi police and handed over to a militia were engaged in a “secret war” against insurgents bringing sophisticated bombs into the country from Iran. The men had left their base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra to carry out reconnaissance and supply a second patrol with “more tools and fire power”, said a source with knowledge of their activities. They had been in Basra for seven weeks on an operation prompted by intelligence that a new type of roadside bomb which has been used against British troops was among...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six U.S. soldiers died in roadside bombings and a shooting, the military said Sunday, as lawmakers rushed to persuade Sunni Arabs to accept federalism provisions in the draft constitution that is due in one day. With intense negotiations continuing just hours before parliament was to ratify the charter, one Shiite legislator, Jawad al-Maliki, told The Associated Press that the deadline might have to be extended. "If we don't reach an agreement today, we might amend the interim constitution and extend the deadline by a minimum of two weeks," he said. However, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the...

Iraqi Boy Helps Lead Troops to Roadside Bomb Mosul, Iraq -- Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), were able to defuse a roadside bomb after an Iraqi boy provided them with information about it in northern Iraq on Jan. 10. Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, were on patrol in Mosul when an Iraqi child informed them of a roadside bomb in the area. The tip led to the diffusion and destruction of the bomb. No injuries were reported, and the child was compensated for his service. Release #050112r

Services set for Sunday for Sebastopol guardsman killed in blast An Army survivor of a roadside bombing in Iraq underwent surgery Tuesday in Washington, D.C., while funeral arrangements were announced for a fellow soldier who died in the same incident last week. Sgt. Daniel Nevins, 31, of Windsor was in the first of what likely will be a series of medical operations at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said his wife, Nicole Nevins. Nicole Nevins was scheduled to fly to Washington, D.C., today and planned to go straight to the hospital. "I am hanging in there, but I will be...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A US soldier was killed when a roadside bomb hit a patrol near the town of Tikrit. "One Task Force Danger Soldier was killed when anti-Iraqi forces (US military terminology for insurgents) attacked a combat patrol using an improvised explosive device near Tikrit at about 9:15 am (0515 GMT)," a US military statement said Wednesday. "No other Soldiers were wounded in the attack," it added. Iraqi police reported earlier that an Iraqi civilian was killed and two wounded in a similar attack near Tikrit Wednesday, but it was not immediately possible to verify whether it was in...

BAGHDAD, Sept 18 (AFP) - A US convoy was hit by a roadside bomb on the main highway to the airport in southern Baghdad and another convoy targeted by a car bomb moments later, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said. The double attack took place shortly after 4:00 pm (1200 GMT) and the AFP reporter saw two vehicles on fire, apparently an explosives-laden civilian car and a US Humvee all-terrain vehicle which it rammed. The ramming took place on a fly-over. Black smoke was billowing in the sky and US troops sealed off the area. There was no immediate comment...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Separate roadside bomb attacks around Baghdad and near the northern city of Mosul have killed four American soldiers, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. It said one soldier was killed in a blast in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, and another died of his wounds after an explosion on Monday evening. In a third attack, near Baghdad, a soldier was killed late on Monday when his convoy was targeted. And in Qayarrah, near Mosul, one soldier was killed in a blast on the same day. The attacks will raise the official Pentagon U.S. death toll to at least...

British soldier killed and another seriously wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraqi city of Basra (Reuters)

An Estonian soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the first from his country to die in Iraq, a military spokesman said. The 21-year-old soldier was part of a 12-man foot patrol when the bomb exploded on Saturday, the spokesman said, adding that earlier US military reports he was shot trying to defuse the device proved false. The dead soldier was named as Junior Sergeant Andres Nuiamae. No other soldier was hurt in the blast. Besides the United States, 35 countries have soldiers in Iraq. The Baltic state of Estonia has contributed a small force. US-led occupation...

<p>Staff Sgt. Max Voelz told his wife's parents that she had been the best thing that had ever happened to him.</p> <p>CARLISLE, Pa. &mdash; In the days since Army Staff Sgt. Kimberly A. Voelz died Dec.14 in the arms of her soldier husband, killed by the makeshift bomb she was preparing to disarm, artifacts of her life have been arriving at her parents' home.</p>