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Home » Bomb Squad » I.R.A. Bombs in Iraq

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.

bomb_crowd.jpgThe 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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  1. TheMasterTimekeeper says:
    October 17, 2005 at 10:38 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.

    Reply
  2. jtw says:
    October 17, 2005 at 11:03 am

    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”.

    Reply
  3. Bret says:
    October 17, 2005 at 5:47 pm

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

    Reply
  4. Chris Alemany says:
    October 17, 2005 at 6:22 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”.

    Reply
  5. giovanni says:
    October 18, 2005 at 1:56 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.
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  6. jtw says:
    October 18, 2005 at 2:25 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.

    Reply
  7. giovanni says:
    October 19, 2005 at 11:23 am

    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…

    Reply
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    June 10, 2008 at 7:52 am

    and that ptoves it, the IRA have sup­port world­wide
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    For the cause
    ONE STRUGGLE

    Reply
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