Milblogger and deployed Hero JackArmy had the best kind of IED encounter recently - one in which there were no serious injuries to our troops:

At this point in time, I was sitting in my truck, settling in for the hour or so it would take for the meeting to wrap up and for us to continue our patrol to another town and other activities. Suddenly, I see smoke and dust billowing out from the row of shops along the front right of my truck and then the truck rocks hard. I knew immediately that it was an explosion, and IED [Improvised Explosive Device], and that I needed to check my people. I heard someone say over the intercom, "what was that?" I answered, "an IED, get in the truck and shut the door!" I ask each guy in my truck if they are alright. Everyone is. Then we hear the IA start shooting

Read the rest, including links to what the MSM had to say about the incident, at JackArmy.

Labels: Blogwatch, IED, Iraq, JackArmy, US Army, VBIED

Several U.S. Soldiers Wounded After Iraq Bridge Collapse
MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq — With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, an apparent suicide vehicle bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday, wounding several U.S. soldiers guarding the crossing and blocking traffic on Iraq's main north-south artery.

There was no immediate U.S. Army confirmation on the number and severity of the casualties. An Iraqi civilian also was injured, said Donald Campbell, of the private security Armor Group International, who helped in the rescue...


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Labels: Iraq, terrorists, VBIED