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Video of suicide bomber being "assisted"
This sequence is of a suicide bomber in Baghdad, who attempted to ram an explosives-packed car into an Abrams tank and destroy it.
The attempt failed; all the explosives in the car did not detonate.
The car was partially destroyed and the driver wounded, but he was still capable of detonating a further charge. This was a very dangerous situation, so the Army and Iraqi police closed the road to traffic, and an ordnance detachment used a tracked, remote-controlled robot to approach the car, take pictures of it and its dazed driver, then place a demolition charge beside it, and "assist" the driver in completing his own suicide.
Even after destroying the car and killing the driver, a package of several undetonated artillery shells and land mines is seen remaining on the pavement. In the last frames, they seen being blown by the EOD people in a field at a remote site.. Note the size of this explosion, which would have taken place beside the Abrams tank, if the suicide driver's car had originally detonated as planned.
The accompanying description reads as follows: "The pictures and video are from the EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robot you'll see in the video. If you look closely in the picture of the inside of the car you can see projectiles and explosives used as the primary explosive charge (you'll see them later as well). The guy is still alive and can still function the device, so what do you do? Army EOD knows; just place an explosive disruption tool" under said vehicle to "disrupt" the explosives and their initiators...along with the suicide bomber. Good video taken by an EOD robot. Interesting!
Video of suicide bomber being "assisted"
This sequence is of a suicide bomber in Baghdad, who attempted to ram an explosives-packed car into an Abrams tank and destroy it.
The attempt failed; all the explosives in the car did not detonate.
The car was partially destroyed and the driver wounded, but he was still capable of detonating a further charge. This was a very dangerous situation, so the Army and Iraqi police closed the road to traffic, and an ordnance detachment used a tracked, remote-controlled robot to approach the car, take pictures of it and its dazed driver, then place a demolition charge beside it, and "assist" the driver in completing his own suicide.
Even after destroying the car and killing the driver, a package of several undetonated artillery shells and land mines is seen remaining on the pavement. In the last frames, they seen being blown by the EOD people in a field at a remote site.. Note the size of this explosion, which would have taken place beside the Abrams tank, if the suicide driver's car had originally detonated as planned.
The accompanying description reads as follows: "The pictures and video are from the EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robot you'll see in the video. If you look closely in the picture of the inside of the car you can see projectiles and explosives used as the primary explosive charge (you'll see them later as well). The guy is still alive and can still function the device, so what do you do? Army EOD knows; just place an explosive disruption tool" under said vehicle to "disrupt" the explosives and their initiators...along with the suicide bomber. Good video taken by an EOD robot. Interesting!
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