Pentagon: IED Use Soaring Worldwide -- Antiwar.com
In comments which likely don't augur well for his organization's future, Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, the head of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, suggested there was no real way to defeat improvised explosive devices.
"If we think its going away after Iraq and Afghanistan, we're dreaming," Barbero said, noting that Pentagon stats show the weapons' use soaring across the world, more than doubling in the past three years.
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Update: IED attacks increase outside of Afghanistan, Iraq -- USA Today
My Comment: As a weapon, IEDs are terribly effective .... a fact that other insurgencies around the world have realized for a very long time. As fo [...]
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