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2005-07-14 Iraq-Jordan

Lessons Learned: IED's (and the IRA and FARC) in Iraq

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Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-14 02:42|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's more at the link, much of it in the "Useful IED survival and training tips for small units" category.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-14 02:54|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-07-14 02:54|| Front Page Top

#2 If AQ is using PIRA guys as IED trainers then they still thankfully don't get it and I am not going to spell it out for them. I am sure .com will confirm, you can tell an Arab, but not much.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-14 03:56|| 2005-07-14 03:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I bullet in the head for any irishman or latin american found in the region not in the uniform of the coalition forces. No exceptions. Teams to take them out in the surrounding countries and Northern Ireland or Central America as and when needed.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-14 04:08|| 2005-07-14 04:08|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a struggle for power and money.
As it always is.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-14 07:32|| 2005-07-14 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 From the little I understand, the latest stage in the second Chechen war has been so far mostly IED-based, and the chechyans are very proefficient at it (and at guerilla war in general). That they act as adviser is no surprize at all; note still that US losses in Iraq are lower than russian casualties in much smaller Chechnya. I guess it's because US troops are more trained and professionnal, and because insurgents quality is lower.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-07-14 08:44|| 2005-07-14 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 If the PIRA is in Iraq (doubtful)they would head south to Basra where the Brits are and try to kill them - not Yanks. In fact, if Iraq is a terrorist's honey trap like people suggest I am more surprised than ever that the PIRA and their ilk haven't been down there before trying to kill British military.

Posted by William Butler Yeats 2005-07-14 08:51|| 2005-07-14 08:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess this was too obvious for Phil to include, but I found it to be interesting - if old - news.

PERSONAL COMMENT: At the [expunged] conference there were seats for the LA Times and NY Times, with the reporters' names reserving their seats. There was salient, timely information being put out by the people who have been there for the people who are going - it was not a "press event". It did a great job of outlining the threat, outlining how the enemy has succeeded AND has been defeated, and how we are doing better as where we need to improve... but the mainstream media couldn't bother to show up to deal with the military's (all services present) #1 event to deal with our biggest killer.

LESSON LEARNED: The media is not exercising the due diligence needed to report the full picture. This is consistent with my years in media relations (military and otherwise) as well as being a journalist on assignment where only a FEW will actually care enough to do their job instead of worrying about "consumers" (what they now call "readers"/ "viewers") and advertising. Therefore, realize you will not get the "boring" part of a given story, and "boring" often is the "good news". "If it bleeds, it leads" has been a media mantra for longer than I've been alive, but the perceived need to be "balanced" has been officially given up by many news agencies using "everyone does it" as an excuse.

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-14 09:16|| 2005-07-14 09:16|| Front Page Top

#8 It's not as if Basra is friendly territory to them.

But hey, it's some big religious war. It has "Christians" (the PIRA pretends to be working on behalf of Catholics, right?) killing Moslems (like the kids who died yesterday). And pretending to be the Great Moslem Resistance against the Christian Crusader Invaders at the same time.

(Well, to be fair, the terrorists also have Moslem support. And most of that's from Saudi Arabia, where the people who displaced the defenders of the faith are busy tearing down historic Moslem landmarks...)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-14 09:21|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-07-14 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 PIRA in Iraq? Any sources available on that one anybody?

Posted by GhostofBonzo 2005-07-14 09:36|| 2005-07-14 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 "Drive like NASCAR"

Always make Left turns?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-14 09:49|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-14 09:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Terrorism for the professionals is a business. The ideological or religously motivated are just dispensable/disposable amateurs.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-14 09:51|| 2005-07-14 09:51|| Front Page Top

#12 PIRA in Iraq?

No wonder Kennedy's so intent on handing us a defeat. Shoot him as a traitor, now.

And Clinton, too.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-07-14 10:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-07-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Nice try Jackal - Infineon in Sonoma and Watkins Glen are road coarses. Go #6!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-14 10:42|| 2005-07-14 10:42|| Front Page Top

#14 There are others out there, too, that are not Arab and are actively supporting the AIF.

Ex-Red Army & Iron Curtain military.

Posted by Pappy 2005-07-14 11:25|| 2005-07-14 11:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Terrorism for the professionals is a business. The ideological or religously motivated are just dispensable/disposable amateurs.

Actually, it's not a business.

It's a religion unto itself.

Which is why you can find FARC, PIRA, and as Pappy suggested, "Ex-Red Army & Iron Curtain military" in Iraq, and you have Pakistan getting the bomb from the PRC, and passing it on to North Korea, and Iran getting it from Russia...

It's all the same religion.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-14 12:40|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-07-14 12:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Rhode corses? Oh! Than explains the dirt. Anybody seen Michael? Ima feel the need for a T-bone

Posted by L Dale 2005-07-14 14:37|| 2005-07-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

#17 We need a translation team in here, stat.

Posted by Dr. Franklin 2005-07-14 16:14|| 2005-07-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#18 I don't like seeing stuff like this on the open web. Normally it's only accessible on password protected sites. I've quoted from field manuals here before, but only because they are on .mil sites that anyone can access. This reveals current intel and tactics, techniques, and procedures.

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