‘Pop And Drop’ Bombs the New Threat in Iraq: General

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‘Pop And Drop’ Bombs the New Threat in Iraq: General

Iraqi insurgents are using new “pop and drop” bombs that are quickly set down in the path of U.S. or Iraqi forces, a U.S. commander said June 16.
Maj. Gen. James Thurman, commander of multinational forces in the Baghdad area, said U.S. forces have been effective in spotting and countering the new improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

”We refer to those as pop-and-drop IEDs, and they’re not effective,” he told reporters here in a video conference from Iraq.

”It’s where they put down some form of an explosive very quickly, thrown out of a car, that’s thrown out there, and we encounter it,” he said.
”But I will tell you, they have to be pretty quick, because we’re going to catch them most of the time,” he said.