Army: IED attacks up

A U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal team detonates a roadside bomb in the Al Doura neighborhood of Baghdad

Iraqi insurgents are launching four times as many attacks with improvised explosive devices than in 2003, but U.S. casualties from the roadside bombs have not risen — due in part to devices that jam the radio signals that trigger the weapons, Pentagon officials say...

Only one in five IED attacks kills or injures U.S. troops, said Devries. She defined an “IED attack” as the emplacement of a roadside bomb, whether it explodes or is prevented from doing so by electronic jamming or physical means.

She declined to provide exact casualty figures.

Statistics compiled by Defense News show that 224 U.S. Army soldiers died in IED attacks in Iraq from August 2003 to August 2004, while more than 425 have been killed in the past 12 months. Comparable figures for other service branches were not available.

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