The IED Was The Most Lethal Weapon That Americans Had To Face In Iraq

The Most Lethal Weapon Americans Faced in Iraq -- At War/New York Times

n the first part of this series, At War explored the various conventional weapons used by insurgents in Iraq, as evidenced by reports, called “storyboards,” written by United States forces detailing the contents of captured weapons caches. Often times these weapons had been considered obsolete before 2003. But they were well known to Western intelligence services and militaries.

Today, we look at weapons that the American military could not have reasonably foreseen entering the fray, but that caused large numbers of casualties. These are the improvised weapons that were made by hand, or in small shops, and that, with one exception, were not made in industrial factories.

Read more ....

My Comment: IEDs were (and are) terribly effective. The U.S. eventually got the upper hand in locating those responsible for these attacks .... but with U.S. forces now gone from Iraq, these forces are unfortunately returning with a vengeance.