From DoD Buzz:
For those who thought the insurgents in Iraq defeated and the war over, well, not so fast, according to the head of the U.S. counter IED effort, Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz. While bomb attacks in Iraq have steadily declined from a monthly peak of 2,800 in early 2007, insurgents still plant around 400 improvised bombs every month, comparable to early 2004 levels. The vast majority of those are found before they detonate or they do and don’t harm anybody.
IEDs are the insurgent weapon of choice both in Iraq and now in Afghanistan, and enemy fighters emplace around 900 bombs every month. The Taliban are planting more IEDs as they have caught on to the fact, as insurgents in Iraq did, that it’s far easier to attack from a distance than go head-to-head with American armor and firepower where chances of survival are pretty low.
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My Comment: 900 IED attacks is a lot .... it is amazing that casualties numbers are not as astronomical as one would suspect with such a number of attacks.
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