Iran’s “sticky bombs” appear in Afghanistan
Stars & Stripes reports that the magnetically attached bombs which our troops saw in the final days of the Iraq War are beginning to make an appearance in resupply convoys from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
“All the proof and evidence is that these come from a neighboring country,” Sediq Sediqqi, the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of the Interior.
The recent attacks happened in quick succession:
– On July 13, Hanifa Safi, Laghman province’s head of women’s affairs, was killed and 11 other people were injured by a magnetic bomb attached to her car in Laghman’s capital.
– Three days later the same type of bomb blew up a district governor’s car in Kunduz, killing a bodyguard and wounding eight others.
– On Wednesday, 22 NATO supply trucks were blown up in quiet Samangan province by suspected sticky bombs.
Advertisement– Also Wednesday, police in neighboring Baghlan province caught suspected insurgents trying to attach magnetic bombs to yet more supply trucks.
Of course, that’s because this war against terror has always been Iran’s proxy war and they should have been serviced along with Iraq. The Iranian government declared war on the US in 1979, we’ve just been too naive to recognize that fact through six presidencies.
Category: Terror War
The magnetic IEDs were in Iraq in 04-05 time frame.
@1 – They’re still there. They seem to be the ‘IED of choice’ for political hits.
In other news , the sky is blue and water is wet.
Yea, they have been around since almost the beginning, the just get over shadowed by the others.
This has been under the wire so to speak for so long. We identified their trademark copper plate EFP’s a long time ago.
No, no, no…it’s the Mossad, who’s bringing the magnetic mines to Afghanistan and making them LOOK like they are coming from Iran. They come in to the country in pieces (about 4000 fridge magnets per mine) and then are reassmbled on the secret Israeli side of Bagram. No,…really,…quit laughing!!
Magnetic bombs are not new to Afghan. And I strongly doubt Iranian involvement here.
Personally, I say that we draw nice lines around all of the archaeological sites in the region (Iraq, Ashcanistan, Iran). Then we give some eggheads some meth and coffee until they can properly program the computers. Finally, we launch the computer-guided nukes to turn the entire region into a flat plate of glass, except for the archeological sites. Problem solved and there is a huge amount of glass-paved parking for the Indiana Jones types.
EFPs were also not the only Iranian provided munitions btw. In 07 we were constantly finding 107s with lot numbers stamped in 2006… Also, PE-4 made in Iran has a blue ink lot number (in english) stamped in to it.
They stopped even trying to hide Iranian munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan. They used to take off the markings and what not now it isn’t even worried about.