… I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Improvised explosive device (IED) is the term for homemade mines fashioned by terrorists using explosives on hand – TNT, mortar rounds, howitzer shells etc.
The drawing of a production Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) in today’s edition of USA Today belies the accompaning term, IED, and the implied home grown insurgency. Armor piercing shaped charges aren’t cobbled together in the kitchen.
Despite using the wrong descriptor, USA Today does report the Iranian EFP connection and also notes the decline in their use as well as IED attacks coinciding with the surge. Overall, another good news article (unless you are a victory eschewing Democrat).
Electronic USA Today article (sans drawing) here.
Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED 11 Dec, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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