Canadian engineers disarmed this double roadside bomb and remote detonator. To turn anti-personnel mines into bombs, the insurgents put the mines in little pots and covered them with scrap metal, rocks and ball bearings. The bombs are detonated remotely. This particular type of IED doesn't do much damage to a car, but could easily kill anybody nearby.
Every IED scene is examined by Military Investigators, primarily from the Engineers. They are the CSI of bomb sites. The brave men and women of the bomb disposal teams.
IEDs
An improvised explosive device (IED) is made of:
A container or package. An initiation system or fuse. Explosive fill. A detonator. A power supply for the detonator.
Package-type IEDs IEDs made from mortar and artillery shells. These IEDs can be thrown at a vehicles, concealed in potholes or covered with dirt alongside roads. The IEDs can be placed in cinder blocks or piles of sand to direct the blast. They are either command-detonated by wire or remote device, or time-delayed and detonated by cordless phone from a car, which can double as mobile firing platform and is hard to trace because it moves around. Vehicle-borne IEDs Vehicle-borne IEDs (VBIEDs) are devices that use a vehicle as the package or container. These IEDs come in all shapes, colors and sizes, varying according to the type of vehicles available from bicycles and donkey carts, small sedans and ambulances to large cargo trucks. Suicide bombs The devices carried by suicide bombers usually employ a high-explosive/fragmentary effect and use a command detonation firing system some sort of switch or button that the person activates by hand.
These improvised explosive devices were part of a stash of 43 that were found during an Afghan police investigation. The bombs were turned over to Canadian soldiers.
So as we approach another Easter celebration at home, please say a prayer for the troops far away in operational areas. At sea on the land or in the air.
Please remember to show support by wearing RED on Friday. Please don't forget the Annual Charity Bingo for the troops on 29 March 08 Tickets available at the Military Families centre in Charlottetown. 902-892-8999
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
