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Iraq: IED/EFP Attacks Against U.S.
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“[…] Numbers of Iranian-made ‘explosively formed
penetrators’ (EFPs) in Iraq decreased in recent months, reflecting an
apparent decline in Tehran's support for Iraqi insurgents, a US general said
Thursday. ‘The EFPs are way down - I am talking about terms of a dozen, 20 in
Iraq in a month from maybe 60, 80,’ US Army Lieutenant General Thomas Metz
told journalists. EFPs are a deadly type of shaped charge that is particularly
effective at penetrating armor. Metz, director of the Joint Improvised
Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), […] said the EFPs have been
deployed against US forces with lethal effectiveness. ‘They have represented
over time probably five percent of IEDs, and would represent as much as 35
percent of the casualties.’ […]” Excerpt
of an AFP article
from December 11th, 2008. |
EFP attack in Baghdad |
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External view: link file format: .mp4 (8,4 MB) |
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IED attack |
EFP attack |
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Video Credits The Video 1) The video is an excerpt of a documentary from the
Lebanese tv channel “Al-Manar” on attacks on U.S. military vehicles by the
Iraqi Shia insurgent group “Asayab Ahl Al-Haqq”. All of the featured attacks apparently
took place in the Al-Karkh district of Baghdad during the month of May in
2008. The date of the tv broadcast is not known. |
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