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Missan – Voices of Iraq
Saturday , 21 /06 /2008 Time 4:00:20

Missan, Jun 21, (VOI) – A factory for home-making sticky improvised explosive devices was seized during search raids by joint forces carrying out Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) in Missan on Saturday, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.

“The IEDs lab was found halfway on the road linking the cities of al-Kahlaa and al-Mashrah, (20 km) east of Amara, thanks to local residents’ cooperation with security forces,” Maj. General Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, the head of the interior ministry’s national command center, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

“The ministry’s bomb squad dismantled the lab and removed its content to the security headquarters in al-Batira airport,” Khalaf said, not giving more details.

An official spokesman for the Iraqi defense ministry had said the security operation in Missan, codenamed Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace), has started during the early hours of Thursday and so far resulted in the capture of six wanted men and the seizure of several weapons and ammunition.

“A security operation, launched at 05:00 a.m. on Saturday, was aimed at hunting down gunmen in the province,” Maj. General Muhammad al-Askari, currently in Missan, told VOI.

Security forces had arrested the mayor of al-Amara, also doubling as deputy governor of Missan, declared by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki last week as a “disarmed province” as of last Sunday, giving gunmen four days to hand over their weapons.

Large divisions of Iraqi army and police personnel flocked into Missan in preparation for Bashaer al-Salam security plan, taking Batira airport, 10 km northwest of Amara, and the Missan sports playground as their headquarters.

Sitting on the Euphrates River, Amara, the capital city of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad. Missan, in the east of the country, bordering Iran, is home to many March Arabs.

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The ‘Sticky IED’
by The World Tribune
Thursday, 28 February 2008

A new type of improvised explosive device in Iraq has been taped underneath cars and stuck to fuel trucks, animals and women.

Official said Iraq Army has found a new and much lighter IED typically attached to cars and other vehicles. The weapon, dubbed “sticky IED,” has consisted of a small plastic explosive wrapped in duct tape.

“They are just small plastic bombs that include highly explosive material and they can be moved manually,” Iraq Army Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for Operation Law and Order, said. “And they are put beneath any car and triggered through a remote control.”