StrategyPage outlines why Improvised Explosive Devices are on the decline in Iraq and Afghanistan: ...In Afghanistan, the enemy started off with one big disadvantage, as they didn't have the expertise or the resources of the Iraqi IED specialists. In Iraq, the bombs were built and placed by one of several dozen independent gangs, each containing smaller groups of people with different skills. At the head of each gang was a guy called the money man. That tells you something about how all this works. Nearly all the people involved with IED gangs were Sunni Arabs, and most of them once worked for Saddam and learned how to handle explosives. The gangs hired themselves out to terrorist groups (some of them al Qaeda affiliated), but mainly to Baath Party or Sunni Arab groups that believed the Sunni Arabs should be running the country. You got the money, these gangs got the bombs... StrategyPage says there were 12,000 IEDs encountered last year in Afghanistan. But they are on the decline as we disrupt the personnel and money traffic as well as develop new technologies (weekly it seems) to defeat them. Go read the whole piece.
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