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2007-06-29 Iraq

Current Iraq Offensive w/Operational Map

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-29 11:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 I suspect a memo has gone out to subordinate commanders: "Gentlemen, the clock is ticking."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-29 13:09|| 2007-06-29 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 "in Tikrit, fourteen insurgents died in a "work accident" when the truck bomb they were assembling detonated prematurely"

News that just makes my day!
Are they running out of 'first team' bomb makers, or have we deployed my conceptual premature bomb detonator?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-29 13:23|| 2007-06-29 13:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Many bomb triggering mechanisms are unforgiving of mistakes. A deadman's switch often is.

The best bombmakers leave the assembly to their staff. Make that, the living bombmakers.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-06-29 13:30|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-06-29 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if some US hackers haven't gone in and done some "tinkering" with the online jihadi bomb plans, causing some of these "work accidents". As Chuck said, some of the more sophisticated detonators take skill to connect. A simple movement of two wires can cause premature explosions. In the same vein, the "recipe" for TAPT(?) can be easily manipulated to cause an explosion. The recipe for C-4, which CAN be made in a kitchen if you never want to use it for food preparation again, is equally as volatile. Anything dealing with ammonium nitrate to ammonium nitrite conversion is equally as delicate, as is extracting nitroglycerine from TNT. It would be a treat to mess with the minds of the mullahs and their minions, as much and as often as possible.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-06-29 15:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 No offense, #4 OP, but I don't think I want to be within a hundred miles of your kitchen makeover!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-29 17:55|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-29 17:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I know from first hand experience EXACTLY how unstable TAPT and some other home brew explosives can be. Fortuantely no underachiving late-adolescents were harmed, but the world is short one camper-trailer.

Posted by Abu do you love 2007-06-29 21:50|| 2007-06-29 21:50|| Front Page Top

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