Where Are All The IEDs?
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An IED - Improvised Explosive Device - isn’t a complicated thing to build. In fact, looking around the place I’m living in now, I can think of about 100 different ways to blow things up. So, I have to ask:
Where the hell are all the IEDs?
Post-9/11 we, as a people, were told that there were a countess number of so-called “sleeper cells” in America. There were so many of these sleeper cells that all of the law enforcement agencies in the United States didn’t have the manpower or legal strength to combat this threat.
Six years later the FBI has arrested less than a dozen suspected members of “sleeper cells” and not a single IED - which could be linked back to an organization like Al-Qaidea - has been found. So, why is that?
Maybe it’s a matter of actually getting into the country. After all, we have increased airport security, right? Well, only if you believe Fox News. Just so you know, I boarded a plane in Detroit with a metal switchblade in my pocket and a bottle of clear liquid (water) in my backpack - and all of that was because I had forgotten they were with me.
No, it’s not an increase in airport security, that’s for damn sure. Maybe it’s because a proper explosive device is difficult to make? Well, there’s a little thing called the Anarchists Cookbook still floating around the Internet. Despite its inaccuracies (if you were to follow some of the recipes to the letter, you would die), it depicts how easy it is to make something that can harm humans. Gas + Fire = Boom.
IEDs are difficult to make? Absolutely not.
US security is as stupid as it has ever been, and IEDs are easier to build than some “assembly required” desks.
So where the fuck are the IEDs?
[tags]IED, Improvised Explosive Device[/tags]
4 Comments
tengrrl
August 17th, 2007
at 6:18pm
could mentos and coke be considered an IED?
Gary
August 17th, 2007
at 8:41pm
They’re coming. You can bet on it.
Fred
August 18th, 2007
at 7:23am
IEDs, as used in Iraq, were never crap culled from the Baghdad Home Depot. They were, originally, artillery shells that disappeared the INSTANT the war went bad cobbled together with a trigger. That was the IMPROVISED in IED.
These days, more and more, they are out and out MINES that the Iranians are sliding in the back door. Simple, really, shaped charges - picture a block of high explosive with a conical depression filled with copper. The block explodes; the cone collapses and the copper comes out in a JET at Mach Blech. Things are in such a mess that we can’t choose off Iran for their murderous mischief.
Al Kaida U.S. Inc., on the other hand, has PLENTY of sleeper cells in the U.S., thank you very much, and you hear nothing of them because they are SLEEPER cells. They have, doubtless, left EXPLOSIVES behind. This is about Terror as Theater. The next attack will be WMD - Chemical, Biological or Nuclear. You will recall that, post 9/11, there were anthrax scares and crop duster probes. This was not a mistake and probably not home grown, as the Gummint was so furiously suggesting. This was to let us know that we were being ATTACKED which sort of fizzed.
Homegrown loons - Tim McVeigh, Unabomber, etc. - suffer from what they have always suffered from - low budgets. If you read Craig’s List carefully you will see few ads for “Wanted - angry and anti-social, self-important weirdo who can frighten co-workers. No work experience necessary because you probably don’t actually WORK.” Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (ANFO) is as simple as saying it and powdered aluminum and rust is thermite or mix liquid oxygen with ANYTHING organic - bombs are trivial. Take your pick-up truck down to Lowe’s. BUT, you need a pick-up truck, some drums and MOST OF ALL some cash. Money makes the world go ’round, it also screens many of the truly deranged.
Will
August 18th, 2007
at 7:53am
If unassenbled, IED wouln not be somting anyone would recgonize. How many houses have (baking)flower, a fan and a candle?