Iraq IEDs – New Variant

New Flying IEDs Being Used In Iraq
(CNN)…Barbara Starr, July 10, 2008

Last month here in Baghdad’s Adamiyah neighborhood, 18 civilians were killed and 29 wounded when a large explosion rocked the neighborhood — one of the latest examples of yet another type of bomb being used by insurgents — improvised rocket assisted mortars or I-RAMs.

… With these, insurgents line the back of trucks with launch tubes. Using Iranian-made rocket charges, they propel cylinders full of explosives, like mortar and tank shells, sometimes over walls more than 20 feet high — the type surrounding U.S. bases.