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I.R.A. Bombs in Iraq

Here's the ultimate example of open source warfare: "Eight British soldiers killed during ambushes in Iraq were the victims of a highly sophisticated bomb first used by the IRA," according to The Independent.

The soldiers, who were targeted by insurgents as they travelled through the country, died after being attacked with bombs triggered by infra-red beams...

According to security sources, the technology for the bombs used in the attacks, which were developed using technology from photographic flash units, was employed by the IRA some 15 years ago after Irish terrorists were given advice by British agents. "We are seeing technology in Iraq today that it took the IRA 20 years to develop," said a military intelligence officer with experience in Northern Ireland...

The former agent added: "The photographic flashgun unit was replaced with infra-red and then coded infra-red, but basically they were variations of the same device. The technology came from the security forces, but the IRA always shared its equipment and expertise with Farc guerrillas in Colombia, the Basque separatists, ETA and Palestinian groups. There is no doubt in my mind that the technology used to kill our troops in Basra is the same British technology from a decade ago."

(Big ups: Sploid)

THERE'S MORE: Be sure to check out Chris Allbritton's on-the-ground report on Iraq's election day.

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An electromagnetic scanner covering the whole earth?

Is this possible... I think you are talking about something similar to those systems that are going to be introduced in Airports and others security checks.

But the whole Earth...

Posted by: giovanni at October 19, 2005 11:23 AM

radars will help is get a 3d picture of the entire globe such as (underground explosives, weapons caches, and some guy sneaking a RPG in the back of his car).

maybe not "radar" or "xray" but some form of electromagnetic scanner. I think 'radar' only works in a certain part of the electromagnetic spectrum(the radio spectrum).

When i said radar I meant an electromagnetic scanner because that is what a radar and xray machine is.

Posted by: jtw at October 18, 2005 02:25 AM

We are supporting a part of the population while another part does not want us in any way and any form. In this sense WE ARE NOT FACING any kind of INSURGENT but we are on ONE SIDE OF A CIVIL WAR that we have unleashed.

So this is quiet a different picture from what is official...

Is easy to understand that no technology can help us distinguish dangerous guerrilla fighters from civils as the fighters we are facing are a part of the civil society. I do not believe that radars will help us... This kind of confrontation is a nightmare of any classic army and a source of immense innocent civil casualties in the population.

We are facing a major error in the evaluation of the civil political reaction to the US invasion.

You can look back at any civil war or liberation war to see similarities. I suggest you this movie (Maybe you have already seen it):

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Posted by: giovanni at October 18, 2005 01:56 AM

Yeah but this is an entire country. And a fairly large population is putting up resistance. And im pretty sure they have been setting off IED's from day 1.

And with no ground penetrating radar and radar that can see inside buildings, there is no way we have searched and disarmed iraq entirely yet to be blaming other countries for every IED that goes off, especially without proof.

Just my opinion. We have killed enough civilians already I dont want to see it happen to other countries. We know how the US Military loves dropping 1000 pound bombs on neighborhoods, heck we even drop them on ourselves.

We should pull back, defend the borders and work on our technology because we are not ready to be fighting these "freedom and anti terrorist campaigns". If we can keep the terrorists out, they probably dont have the means to attack us from the outside. So to me thats better then fighting a war where women and children die.

100,000 estimated dead Iraqi Military, Terrorists , and Insurgents.

25,000+ estimated dead Iraqi CIVILIANS including WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

THAT IS NOT A GOOD RATIO. That is murder by the tens of thousands by our own Military! those numbers are the word through the grapevine.

I am disgusted by that. http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Posted by: jtw at October 18, 2005 12:11 AM

I can't really understand why using commonly available electronics could be compared again to Open Source. I see just an adaptation of tactics and consequent smarter use of technology.

In Somalia RPGs where first used to shot down Blackhawks. Again in Iraq there were similar cases. Can we call this OPEN-SOURCE warfare or just a kind of adaptation that you se in ANY war? Can we consider OPEN SOURCE the shared experiences by US soldiers building on the field protections for their HMMWVs?

Still seams to me that we are loosing time while we are loosing the big picture.

Posted by: giovanni at October 17, 2005 11:51 PM

"I would say they dont have a CLUE. And using a "tripwire" wether it be a wire or infrared beam is not exactly "limited to the IRA"."

Sophisticated probably means they can't just dream it up in a mosque in Fallujah, they need access to either people with knowledge of electronics and bomb making or they need a source that produces these sorts of bombs.

Lots of stuff is old and yet "sophisticated". The Space Shuttle design is over 30 years old and is the best the human race has come up with.. the Soyuz capsule is even older and is again the height of space capsule "sophistication".

Posted by: Chris Alemany at October 17, 2005 06:22 PM

How does anything being used 15 years ago qualify as "sophisticated technology"?

Posted by: Bret at October 17, 2005 05:47 PM

First it was Hezbolllah/Syria.

Then it was Iran.

Now it is the IRA.

I would say they dont have a CLUE. And using a "tripwire" wether it be a wire or infrared beam is not exactly "limited to the IRA".

Posted by: jtw at October 17, 2005 11:03 AM

Twenty years ago terrorists couldn't turn to a web page for instructions. It's no surprise that techniques are moving faster in these wired times.

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I.R.A. Bombs in Iraq

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