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improvised explosive device

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A device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destuctive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass, or distract. It may incorporate military stores, but is normally devised from nonmilitary components. Also called IED.
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Noun1.improvised explosive device - an explosive device that is improvised
I.E.D., IED
explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy
gasoline bomb, Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb - a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick
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Aras Mohammed Namiq, the director of the Criminal Investigations Department in Kirkuk survived an attempt on his life when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit his vehicle near Kirkuk park on a main street south of Kirkuk City," Col.
Criminal investigations chief escapes attempt on life by Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
An Improvised Explosive Device exploded in Fallujah Market on Sunday, targeting a police patrol, police source stated to NINA.
2 IEDs explode in Fallujah by National Iraqi News Agency
KABUL (PAN): A NATO-led soldier was killed yesterday by an improvised explosive device (IED) detonation that occurred in restive southern Afghanistan, the Western military alliance said on Thursday.
ISAF soldier killed; militant detained by Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan)
 
 
 
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