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The War
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Iraq: IED Attack (VI) Against U.S. Humvee - October
25th, 2006 |
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Background “October was a time of gritty skirmishes against hardened fighters
religiously motivated to risk their lives during the holy Muslim month of
Ramadan. October's death toll, the highest for U.S. forces in nearly two
years, came during a month without conventional battles or catastrophic
helicopter crashes. Rather, the 104 troops killed across Iraq were victims of
a steady drip of assaults, primarily by Sunni Arab insurgents. […] It was a
month in which U.S. forces were shot by snipers, hit by rocket-propelled
grenades or lured into ambushes and sprayed with fire from the AK-47s found
in many Iraqi homes. But improvised explosive devices left along roadsides
remained the weapon of choice for Iraq's insurgency. Despite jamming devices,
tactical adjustments and increased armoring of military vehicles, at least 52
of the U.S. casualties resulted from these bombs, […]” Excerpt of a
Baltimore Sun article
from November 1st, 2006 |
A humvee hits a roadside bomb |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .mpg |
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Screenshots |
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A road somewhere in Iraq |
A U.S. humvee passes by |
The humvee is hit by an IED |
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Video Credits The video has been published by the
“Islamic Army in Iraq” at the end of October of 2006. The location is
unknown. The date of the attack is apparantly the 25th of October
2006. |
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