KR: More Americans dying from roadside bombs in Iraq

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/11866233.htm

CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq - (KRT) - Improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that insurgents build from castoff artillery shells and other munitions, have become the No. 1 killer of American troops in Iraq this year, despite a massive U.S. campaign to blunt their effectiveness.

American commanders have dispatched newly armored Humvees, Army engineers have begun a yearlong program to clear vegetation and debris along major transportation routes, and military technicians have equipped vehicles with devices that jam cell phones and garage-door openers, which are used to trigger the explosives.

In spite of those efforts, deaths due to IEDs rose by more than 41 percent in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year, and account for nearly 52 percent of the 261 U.S. combat deaths so far this year, according to statistics assembled by Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, an Internet site that uses official casualty reports to organize deaths by a variety of criteria.

That's a change from 2004, when IEDs accounted for 189 of the 720 combat deaths among U.S. troops - about 26 percent.

In the first five months of last year, 85 deaths were attributed to IEDs. In the same period this year, 120 deaths were due to roadside bombs. They were the No. 1 cause of U.S. combat deaths for each of the five full months so far this year.

they are targeting Iraqis. Don't they know this is just their last desperate attempts to resist?

They could cause "problems" instead of fixing them...

Dontcha just LOVE that Freedom on the March(tm)?

Like making the bombs explode instead of stopping them??

The sight of men in Ray-Bans and cheap black suits with curly hoses coming out of their ears at my door makes me break out in hives....

:kick:

The entire country becomes one big booby trap. No technology can change that fact.

More Americans dying from roadside bombs in Iraq.
In spite of those efforts, deaths due to IEDs rose by more than 41 percent in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year, and account for nearly 52 percent of the 261 U.S. combat deaths so far this year.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2960

This figure is liberal media bias.

The insurgency is on its last legs.

Doubleplus good.