(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD) IED EXPLOSION RPT (Improvised Explosive Device (IED)) -%%% CAB : %%% CIV WIA

MND-%%% SIGACT ()\012\012 %%%\012\012MND-%%% EVENT (%%%)\012\012UNIT: /%%% ID\012\012IED TYPE: UNK\012\012KIA (/%%%): NONE\012\012WIA (/): %%% X LN \012\012WHO: -%%% CAB\012\012WHAT: %%% X IED STRIKES\012\012WHERE: %%%\012\012CLOSEST ISF/SoI CP:\012CP #: %%% SHA'AB IP HQ\012UNIT: %%% SHA'AB IP\012GRID: %%%\012MANNED/UNMANNED: MANNED\012DISTANCE: %%% METERS WEST\012\012: %%%\012\012SECT ASSESSMENT: UNK\012\012INITIAL REPORT:\012\012%%%: SHA'AB JOC REPORTS THAT THEY HAD %%% X EXPLOSIONS OUTSIDE THE EAST GATE AT JSS SHA'AB.\012\012TIMELINE:\012\012: //-%%% ARRIVES ON SITE AND REPORTS THAT THE FIRST IED WAS IN A BAG INSIDE A BUILDING THAT WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND SECOND IED WAS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE FIRST.\012\012%%%: SHA'AB JOC REPORTS THAT THERE WERE %%% X INJURED LN ALL WERE TAKEN TO %%% HOSPITAL FOR MINOR INJURIES.\012\012: //-%%% REPORTS THAT THE FIRST IED WAS AT %%% AND THE SECOND WAS AT %%%, BOTH WERE CONCEALED IN BAGS.\012\012: //-%%% AND EOD SP FOB .\012\012: //-%%% ARRIVES ON SITE WITH EOD.\012\012%%%: EOD COMPLETE WITH PBA, REPORTS BOTH DEVICES WERE UBE WITH NO FRAGMENTATION CONCEALED IN WHITE BAGS, ENROUTE BACK TO FOB .\012\012: //-%%% AND EOD RP FOB %%%, EOM\012\012EOD ASSESSMENT: TEAM MANEUVERED TO A POST BLAST VICINITY %%%; ISO EASY -. %%% JSS REPORTED TWO EXPLOSIONS AT APPROXIMATELY %%% JUST OUTSIDE OF THEIR LOCATION. FIVE LOCAL NATIONALS WERE WOUNDED IN THE EXPLOSION. TEAM ARRIVED ON SITE AND ESTABLISHED SAFE AREA VICINITY %%%. TEAM LEADER DISMOUNTED AND CONDUCTED A POST BLAST ANALYSIS OF THE TWO BLAST SEATS. THE BLASTS WERE APPROXIMATELY %%% APART ON DIFFERENT APPROACH AVENUES TO THE JSS. THE FIRST BLAST SEAT WAS LOCATED AT %%% AND THE SECOND BLAST SEAT WAS LOCATED AT %%% EACH BLAST SEAT MEASURED APPROXIMATELY %%% LONG X %%% WIDE X %%% DEEP. TEAM LEADER ASSESSED AS %%%-3LBS UBE IN AN UNKNOWN CONTAINER, INITIATION SYSTEM UNKNOWN. AFTER QUESTIONING THE IRAQI POLICE %%%, IT WAS REPORTED THAT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. THE IP COL %%% HE TRAVELS THE SAME ROUTE %%% THE POLICE STATION EVERY MORNING AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME TIME. ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING, HE CALLED THE POLICE STATION TO REPORT THAT HE WAS ON HIS WAY IN TO WORK. THE IEDS DETONATED APPROXIMATELY SEVEN MINUTES PRIOR TO HIS ARRIVAL IN THE AREA. THE FIVE LOCAL NATIONALS WOUNDED WERE TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED WITH MINOR INJURIES. NO ADDITIONAL EXPLOSIVES OR HAZARDS WERE FOUND\012\012IO MESSAGE: ISF AND CF ARE TARGETING THOSE WHO PLACE ROADSIDE BOMBS AND OTHERS WHO TERRORIZE THE IRAQI PEOPLE. HELP STOP THE TERRORISTS, CALL IN TIPS.\012\012S2 ASSESSMENT: THIS ATTACK WAS MOST LIKELY CONDUCTED BY LOWER LEVEL %%% CRIMINALS OPERATING OUT OF %%%. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE IP COL %%% RULES IN THE AREA, AND THESE CRIMINALS PROBABLY ATTEMPTED THE ASSASSINATION IN RETALIATION FOR THESE CHANGES. THESE CRIMINALS LIKELY DO NOT HAVE FORMAL TRAINING IN IED CONSTRUCTION.\012\012SUMMARY: \012\012%%% X IED STRIKE\012%%% X LN WIA\012%%% X DMG\012\012//CLOSED//\012\012