June 9, 2005
Car bombing increase prompts changes in tactics
Iraqi insurgents have increased their use of car bombs to an average of 30 per week, a move that has changed U.S. tactics, according to the head of a Pentagon task force that deals with remotely detonated bombs, a huge jump from the one-bomb-a-week average in January 2004, according to the Marine Corps Times.
...] The insurgents continue to use wireless roadside bombs that can be exploded by using consumer electronics devices such as garage-door openers or cell phones.
[...] Improvised explosives have been used in previous wars, Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, head of the Pentagon's Task Force on Improvised Explosive Devices said. But what's new in Iraq is that they've become a primary weapon.
[...] The Pentagon now has about 4,200 portable electronic jamming devices in Iraq and more are on the way".
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