Afghanistan war: why IEDs are taking a mounting toll

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By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / December 7, 2010

Washington
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is touring Afghanistan this week to gauge progress on the ground, but back in Washington, the Pentagon is already wrestling with what to do about the “significant” increase in the number and effectiveness of roadside bombs throughout the country.

Between June 2009 and 2010, insurgents’ use of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, rose by 22 percent. More worrying, say senior US military officials, is that the rate of effective attacks – in other words, bombs that result in injuries to NATO troops or Afghan civilians – has increased 45 percent.

Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, says there has been a “significant” rise in the number of roadside bombs because even as the US military has surged into Afghanistan, the Taliban has surged, too.

And paradoxically, Lt. Gen. Oates says, a lack of technological expertise among Afghans means the locally manufactured IEDs are of a simpler design than those deployed against US forces in Iraq, making them harder to detect by NATO troops and hence more effective.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/1207/Afghanistan-war-why-IEDs-are-taking-a-mounting-toll

End the War now.

[saigon68]

1. Saw that slick Fuck on the TV tonight

When they asked him about Wiki-Leaks he looked like he was going to go off screen to Masturbate the little smirking Cretin

[jody]

2. "why IEDs are taking a mounting toll"? Because a swarm of unorganized people who fight invaders

of their country have discovered a few pounds of explosives cobbled together with simple detonators are difficult to locate and cause casualties, deaths, and havoc among the most technologically impaired military the world has ever seen.

[bemildred]

3. Dang, who could have predicted this? nt

[saigon68]

4. Seen this Before

[w8liftinglady]

5. If you pray,say a little one for my kid...he's getting cold there right now...sigh.

Fuck.