Comments on: This is what an IED looks like

By: drazi

drazi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:25:35 +0000

I can’t help but admire the perseverance and ingenuity of people who have lost everything and much of their families and villages, fighting back. No other options here, fighting back.

We need to bring our troops out right now, and if Afghan insurgents claim they defeated all our $$$ and high-tech and grisly “science”, and PR, they deserve to claim it because that’s precisely what they are doing. We really need these people in the gene pool, not dead.

By: drazi

drazi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:13:51 +0000

What liquid? Where from?

We all know about unexploded cluster bombs, widely dropped in s. afghanistan. And other unexploded stuff, simply simply turned around to get the pawns of the side whose elites had them deployed in the first place.

By: P.J. Tobia - Afghan Desk - Afghan Desk Weekly Roundup - True/Slant

P.J. Tobia - Afghan Desk - Afghan Desk Weekly Roundup - True/Slant — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:03:29 +0000

[...] Quite a week at The Desk. It started with a lovely guided tour of Kabul’s poppy palaces, then we all got to see what an IED looks like. [...]

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:27:54 +0000

Well I know what to say: We’re Screwed.

When you can’t tell who the enemy is and bombs can be created this simply, the only defense is an excellent, deeply embedded counter intelligence force. I don’t think we are there yet.

You keep your head down, man and make lots and lots of friends.

By: Ali Eteraz

Ali Eteraz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:41:49 +0000

I don’t know what to say either except that this is what news is all about. I think there was once a time when the reporting your are doing would have been done by TV and print. People like you would have been the big shots.

In due time you will get the recognition you deserve for your hard work.

By: EvilCON » Wow, Picture of a Real IED

EvilCON » Wow, Picture of a Real IED — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:11:11 +0000

[...] have to at least take a look at this. Few people have seem one of these and lived to tell about it. This is a picture of a real improvised explosive device planted by insurgents to kill U.S. and allie… or who ever else they don’t [...]

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:00:27 +0000

Likewise, thanks for this. And thanks for not making it a debate about whether or not we should be there.

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:38:31 +0000

We’ve gotten so used to the lingo, the stories, the data, the opinions, wailing women we don’t really know, flies on kids we don’t really know. Somehow, despite all that, we find a way not feel and know that it’s about BOMBS. Thank you for making it personal, and immediate, and for making us nervous about you.

By: Bill Barol

Bill Barol — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:27:02 +0000

{Gulp.}

Ditto.

By: Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:52:34 +0000

I haven’t seen anything like this in previous news coverage, P.J. It’s terrifying in its simplicity.

Thank you for capturing this, but I am with the others in urging you to be careful.