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Guardsman Stuart Cook survives brushes with death
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
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Guardsman Stuart Cook survived three bomb blasts, a rocket-propelled grenade and heavy machinegun fire in which a round was stopped by bulletproof glass inches from his head. The attacks took place as the Welsh Guards engaged the Taliban in fierce fighting...
Tags: Stuart Cook, IED, guardsman stuart, cook survives, Afghanistan, Kabul, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, Taliban, Improvised explosive device, Explosives, War in Afghanistan, Bombs
IED recovered in Cotabato bus terminal
Cotabato :: Philippines | 22 days ago
Credibility Police recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) in a Cotabato City bus terminal early Monday morning, the city police chief said. Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane said that witnesses reported seeing two men, on board a motorcycle, drop a blue...
Tags: bus terminal, IED, Cotabato City, Willie Dangane, Philippines, Cotabato, Pagadian City, Bombs, Explosives, Improvised explosive device
Slain Canadian soldier begins journey home
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canadian not on duty at the sprawling Afghanistan airfield. The 24-year old Calgarian was less than one week into his tour in Afghanistan when he stepped on a homemade landmine Friday while on a foot patrol southwest of Kandahar City. He was the second...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, canadians soldiers, Sapper Steven Marshall, IED, foot patrol, soldiers kills
Unmanned Drones to 'Sniff Out' Enemy IED's...
The Sciebel S-100 Copter is being outfitted to become an unmanned drone that will provide protection from enemy IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) that are killing and crippling soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan... Codenamed "Yellow Jacket" the drones...
Tags: Yellow Jacket, Sciebel S-100 Copter, Centauri Solutions, IED
Medical camp
Imphāl :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Nupakthabi Village yesterday under a team of medical officer and paramedical staff of the battalion with the aim to provide free medical cover and educate the local population on importance of hygiene and sanitation.
Tags: IED, PRO Assam Rifles
Bomb blast kills 17 in Kabul
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bomb blast in the Indian embassy this morning. It was more powerful than the earlier one in July 2008. The blast in front of the embassy in Kabul killed at least 17 and injured over 80 – there was no...
Tags: the taliban, ied, itbp, indian embassy kabul, bomb blast
Two Estonian soldiers die in Afghanistan
Two Estonian soldiers died from wounds received after an improvised explosive device hit their convoy in Helmand province. The small baltic country has less than 300 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO ISAF force. With these latest casualties...
Tags: afghanistan, soldiers, IED, war, war in afghanistan, kabul, helmand, bomb, taliban, terrorism, war on terror
The Hurt Locker
Just about the only thing scarier than being in Iraq, is being the guy in Iraq whose job it is to defuse Improvised Explosive Devices. This film follows the final forty days of a tour of duty of three such men. The film takes place pre-surge, when...
Militant nexus
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Kandahar, Quetta Kandahar has the symbolic importance of being the spiritual centre of the Taliban movement and also the place of its origin. The supreme Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, made the city his headquarters when the Taliban came to power...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Central Asia, Farah City, IED, taliban fighters, Barack Obama, Hamed Karzai, Quetta Kandahar, Hamid Karzai
Woman injured in Manipur bomb blast
Imphāl :: India | 5 months ago
Credibility Sources said the bomb, attached to a two-wheeler, went off in front of the second Manipur Rifles battalion office at Pandon area near here at around 9.30 am injuring a woman passers-by. The police and security personnel went to the high security area...
Tags: Yengkhom Krishnadas, IED
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