Improvised explosive device attacks have been reported as recently as December 28, 2009 by Wikipedia. Improvised explosive device attacks have involved 2 places, 1 organization and 6 things.
While explosives themselves do not perform attacks, since humans first developed things that blow up, these devices have been used to attack, kill and maim. The wide usage of such explosive devices as IEDs, car bombs, and suicide bombs has led to ever more destruction in the world's hot spots.
Other products on the attack include: Car bomb, Hand grenade, AK-47, Molotov cocktail, Grand Slam bomb, Lewis Gun, M2 Browning machine gun, and more.
- Organizations attacked
- United States Army
Improvised explosive device attack
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...when a secondary victim-operated IED exploded. He lost his left leg and part of his left arm, and he sustained serious injuries to his other leg and lower back. Despite his injuries, he continued to give...
Read more: Peter Norton (GC)
Wikipedia | December 28, 2009
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...to polling sites in the district center. The Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based unit has already seen 13 Marines killed since their arrival in June, almost all by IEDs. "For the most part, if you're not in a secure...
Read more: Taliban intimidation intensifies prior to election
GlobalPost | August 20, 2009
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Sunday, August 2nd 2009, 6:36 AM KABUL - Militants in eastern Afghanistan attacked U.S. forces with gunfire Sunday after a roadside bomb hit their convoy. Three American troops died in the attack, officials...
Read more: Roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan kills three American soldiers
Nation / World - NY Daily News | August 02, 2009
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...that their tactics were fatally flawed. Tributes were also paid yesterday to Rifleman Aminiasi Toge, 26, the latest soldier to die in an explosion in Helmand. He was described as "a determined and skilful...
Read more: As hostilities escalate in Whitehall, army chiefs confine Gordon Brown to barracks
Times Online | July 18, 2009
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...eastern Afghanistan," Isaf said in a statement. Isaf does not name nor release the nationality of any casualty before the relevant country involved has done so. But Col Greg Julian of the US military confirmed...
Read more: Afghan blasts kill four US troops
BBC | June 01, 2009
