An improvised explosive device (IED), also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism.
IEDs may be used in terrorist actions or in unconventional warfare by guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the second Iraq War, IEDs were ...
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People Who Died This Way:
- Alfred Herrhausen ,
- Kenneth Robert Howorth ,
- Elizabeth Jacobson ,
- Edward O'Brien ,
- Roger Philip Goad ,
- D.M. Dassanayake ,
- Sarah Bryant ,
- Gary O'Donnell ,
- David Ronald Pearce ,
- Rupert Thorneloe
Disasters of this type:
- Wall Street bombing ,
- 1989 Deal barracks bombing ,
- Guildford pub bombing ,
- La Mon Restaurant Bombing ,
- Shankill Road bombing ,
- Brighton hotel bombing ,
- 1985 Newry mortar attack ,
- Attacks on shipping in Lough Foyle ,
- Birmingham pub bombings ,
- RFA Fort Victoria
Also known as:
- IED,
- Improvized explosive device,
- terrorist bombing
