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Mudville Friday, predicting the media response to the report that an IED that flipped a heavily armored Bradley, killing all it's occupants:
A possible "increasingly powerful insurgency" storyline may evolve.
The LA Times yesterday:
WASHINGTON — Bombs used with deadly effect against U.S. troops in Iraq have recently become more powerful, the latest escalation in the insurgency, Pentagon officials said Friday.Army Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez said insurgents had greatly increased the destructive power of roadside bombs by packing more explosives into the munitions, which the military calls improvised explosive devices.
"We've noticed in the recent couple of weeks that the IEDs are all being built more powerfully, with more explosive effort in a smaller number of IEDs," Rodriguez told reporters.
On Thursday, a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad killed seven soldiers riding in a Bradley fighting vehicle, one of the most heavily armored in the U.S. military.
I should stop using words like "may."