Afghan insurgents blown up by their own IED
In a video shot from nearby Apache helicopters, US military personnel watch as Afghan insurgents set up a deadly IED and then accidentally trigger it themselves. I think this video is pretty rare: I imagine not many insurgents are caught on camera setting up their IEDs. But IEDs have become a bigger and bigger problem for coalition forces in Afghanistan. At first IEDs seemed an Iraq-only issue, but their numbers have been increasing in recent years, and 2009 is on track to set a record for IEDs in Afghanistan, with 828 so far this year.
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