The Growing Threat Of IEDs In The U.S.

Items such as pressure cookers, homemade pressure plates and other common materials are used by enemy forces to make improvised explosive devices. Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron 373, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), learn about the different types of IED's and how they are made during a Counter IED Class held at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. MWSS-373 Marines receive the training before they can go on convoys with the unit. During the class, Marines are also taught to use a metal detector, which they use to find a low metallic pressure plate during practical application. Dvids

America’s New Bomb Threat -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

Some of the deadliest weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan—improvised explosive devices, or IEDs—are heading to U.S. shores, warns a top general.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, homemade, low-tech bombs, often hidden along roadsides, have been some of the deadliest threats to United States soldiers. In Afghanistan alone, these improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were responsible for 1,290 of the 2,477 U.S. and coalition casualties since 2001, according to iCasualties.org, which tracks troop deaths.

Now, IEDs could be coming to U.S. shores.

According to Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, head of the military’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, some of the same terrorists who amassed the know-how on building IEDs are setting their sights on the U.S.

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More News On The Growing Threat Of IEDs In The U.S.

Experts have long warned about IEDs in U.S. -- Politico
Boston attack underscores growing threat of IEDs in America -- FOX News
Boston Bomb Blasts Awaken Veterans' IED Fears -- David Wood, Huffington Post
America the Vulnerable: IED’s Have Finally Come to the Homeland -- Timothy Dalrymple, Patheos

My Comment: The above article was posted by Eli Lake two days before the Boston marathon bombing .... talk about being prophetic. The below quote is from Lt. Gen. Barbero .... a quote that I fear is probably accurate ....

“ The greatest producer of causalities on the battlefield in the 20th century was artillery, and my assessment is the IED is the artillery of the 21st century.

                                      - Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization (Quote from NPR)