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| Ur blast resulted from sticky IED inside vehicle |
| 2008-08-17 |
| (VOI) -- Saturday's blast in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur was the result of a sticky improvised explosive device emplaced inside a civilian vehicle, the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) said. "Today's blast in Ur neighborhood resulted from a sticky IED inside a civilian vehicle," BOC official spokesman, Maj. General Qassem Atta, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). Earlier on Saturday, the Iraqi authorities said seventeen civilians were killed or wounded in a car bomb attack that ripped through the neighborhood of Ur. "Today, a roadside car rigged with explosives detonated in an Ur street, northeastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 11 others," a police source, who preferred to remain unnamed, |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I'm reminded of the 'sticky bomb' from Saving Private Ryan, from the gooiness of the material that allowed it to be stuck to something. As opposed to one hidden from view, buried in the road. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-08-17 15:04 |
| #3 JohnQC: What is a "sticky" IED? BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 (VOI) – Saturday's blast in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur was the result of a sticky improvised explosive device emplaced inside a civilian vehicle, the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) said..... STICKY IED... hummm ..STICKY WICKET Damn this sounds like a secrete weapons program! Question, Is it a present from Muqtada al-Sadr or a Dead Beat al-Qaeda member? |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-08-17 13:13 |
| #2 One of their kids ice cream cones melted on it. |
| Posted by: Lampedusa Glack5566 2008-08-17 10:51 |
| #1 What is a "sticky" IED? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-08-17 07:45 |