It's official... They're fighting the A-Team!
Story BAGHDAD, July 9 -- Suspected Shiite militiamen have begun using powerful rocket-propelled bombs to attack U.S. military outposts in recent months, broadening the array of weapons used against American troops.

U.S. military officials call the devices Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions, or IRAMs. They are propane tanks packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives and powered by 107mm rockets. They are often fired by remote control from the backs of trucks, sometimes in close succession. Rocket-propelled bombs have killed at least 21 people, including at least three U.S. soldiers, this year.

The latest reported rocket-propelled bomb attack occurred Tuesday at Joint Security Station Ur, a base in northeastern Baghdad shared by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. One U.S. soldier and an interpreter were wounded in the attack.

U.S. military officials say IRAM attacks, unlike roadside bombings and conventional mortar or rocket attacks, have the potential to kill scores of soldiers at once. IRAMs are fired at close range, unlike most rockets, and create much larger explosions. Most such attacks have occurred in the capital, Baghdad.
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The use of the rocket-propelled bombs reflects militiamen's ability to use commonly available materials and relatively low-tech weaponry to circumvent security measures that have cost the U.S. military billions of dollars.I always knew Hannibal would turn bad... But BA, Face, and Murdoch too? The shame... The Infamy! :(

They're just getting blamed, remember? They were charged with a crime they didn't commit *L*

And this surprises you?

I know teenagers who came up with this one back in the 1980's.

I guess the Miltiamen finally got ahold of an Arabic translation of the Anarchist's Cookbook. :)

We really should have seen this one coming. Military Intell should hire some pyrotechnically inventive teenagers so they can anticipate the next development.

(I am being serious here. Sure my tongue is in the cheek, but stranger improvisations have worked)

Improvise, overcome, adapt...

I thought it was over booze, undress, and get out?

Then again...that's kind of the same thing as what you said