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By Paul Amoroso, an explosive hazards specialist at Assessed Mitigation Options (AMO) consultancy INTRODUCTION In this ongoing series exploring the design, development, and sustainment of an accurate IED threat picture1 through a 5W+H analytical framework, we have thus far examined Read More …
By Paul Amoroso, an explosive hazards specialist at Assessed Mitigation Options (AMO) consultancy INTRODUCTION Continuing our 5W+H series on IED attacks, intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of the use and threatened use of IEDs, having previously explored their technical Read More …
By Paul Amoroso, an explosive hazards specialist at Assessed Mitigation Options (AMO) consultancy INTRODUCTION As part of an ongoing series examining the 5W+H of IED attacks, this article focuses on the tactical employment,1,2 or ‘how’ of IED attacks. This series Read More …
While the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the entire world appears to have overshadowed every other thing, people in Ekiti, Lagos and the Ondo States are caught in the throes of recent bomb explosions that happened on February 8, Read More …
Last week’s terror attack that left 11 General Service Unit (GSU) officers dead in Garissa has put in sharp focus the rising use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by Al-Shabaab against security officers along the Kenya-Somalia border. Every year, thousands Read More …
Peshawar: – An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast targeting the security forces in tribal district North Waziristan on Friday left at least two men in uniform seriously wounded. “At least two personnel of the security forces were injured in a Read More …
An explosion Saturday in a Minnesota mosque was caused by an improvised explosive device, an FBI official said. No one was injured in the blast at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in the city of Bloomington. Rick Thornton, the FBI’s Read More …
Anti-Maduro activists wearing hoods or masks erected barricades on roads, and scuffles broke out with security forces who moved in quickly to disperse demonstrators who denounced the election as a naked power grab by the president. Authorities said 10 people Read More …
Two activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) alleged to be involved in attacks on Chinese nationals in the city were among 10 suspects arrested by the Sindh Rangers on Wednesday. A spokesman for the paramilitary force said a Read More …