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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: IED Attack (III) Against U.S. Convoy - March
11th, 2006 |
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Background - Insurgents’
Countertactics “[…]The first IEDs were triggered by wires and batteries; insurgents
waited on the roadside and detonated the primitive devices when Americans
drove past. After a while, U.S. troops got good at spotting and killing the
triggermen when bombs went off. That led the insurgents to replace their
wires with radio signals. The Pentagon, at frantic speed and high cost,
equipped its forces with jammers to block those signals, accomplishing the
task this spring. The insurgents adapted swiftly by sending a continuous
radio signal to the IED; when the signal stops or is jammed, the bomb
explodes. The solution? Track the signal and make sure it continues. Problem:
the signal is encrypted. Now the Americans are grappling with the task of
cracking the encryption on the fly and mimicking it - so far, without
success. […]” Excerpt of a
“Newsweek” article from
June 27th, 2005. |
IED hits U.S. convoy |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .wmv |
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U.S. convoy drives on a narrow road |
An IED hits the leading vehicle |
After the explosion |
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Video Credits This video has been
published by the Jaish Al-Mujahideen, a Sunni insurgent group. The location
of the attack is not known. The day of the attack is supposedly March 11th
of 2006. |
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