BAGHDAD, Jan. 29, 2006 — -- Improvised explosive devices -- IEDs for short -- are the weapons of choice for Iraqi insurgents, with triggers that can be improvised from an easy-to-find object ...

When one of the first Americans serving in Iraq, 25-year-old Pfc. Jeremiah Smith, 25, of Odessa, Mo., died in an explosion under his vehicle in May 26, 2003, six weeks after the U.S. invasion ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The United States is pouring billions more dollars and fresh platoons of experts into its campaign to ‘‘defeat IEDs,’’ the roadside bombs President Bush describes as threat ...

Testers at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in southwestern Arizona are working hard to help the Department of Defense thwart the lethal threats posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq and ...

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The second IED, which was set off remotely when other soldiers came to rescue those hurt by the first one, killed some of the soldiers who were struck by the first IED explosion.