(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD) IED EXPLOSION RPT (%%% IED) %%%/A/%%% IVO (ROUTE ): %%% INJ/DAM

MND-%%% SIGACT %%%\012\012MNC- %%%\012MND- %%%\012\012MND-%%% EVENT: (%%%)\012\012UNIT: /%%% ABN ()\012\012WHO: %%%/A/%%% \012\012WHAT: COMPLEX IED/RPG ATTACK\012\012IED TYPE: SURFACE LAID\012\012IED DESCRIPTION: POSSIBLE EFP\012\012WHEN: 192320OCT09\012\012WHERE: %%%\012------------------------------------\012TIMELINE: \012\012%%%: JSS %%% HEARS AUDIBLE EXPLOSIONS\012\012: %%%/A/%%% REPORTS AN IED STRIKE AT GRID %%%, A %%% HAS SUSTAINED DAMAGE, NO INJURIES REPORTED. THE IED STRIKE CAME FROM THE EAST SIDE.\012\012: %%%/A/%%% REPORTS THAT THERE WERE 2X EXPLOSIONS, APPROX. %%% SECONDS APART. THE INITIAL EXPLOSION CAME FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THE ROAD, THE SECONDARY EXPLOSION CAME FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD. \012\012: %%% REPORTS THAT A LOCAL %%% STATED %%% MINUTES PRIOR TO THE ATTACK, A GROUP OF MALE LOCAL NATIONALS WERE SEEN WITH MACHINE GUNS AND RPGS.\012\012%%%: AWT CHECKS IN ON STATION. \012\012: %%%/A/BSTB REPORTS THAT THE SECOND EXPLOSION WAS AN RPG DETONATING.\012\012: //-%%% AND EOD LINK UP WITH %%% AND SP JSS LOYALTY EN ROUTE %%% THE BLAST SITE. \012\012%%%: AWT OFF STATION\012\012%%%: EOD AND %%% ARE AT THE BLAST SITE, BEGINNING TO CONDUCT PBA AND RECOVERY OF THE DMG . \012\012%%%: EOD HAS COMPLETED BLAST SITE ASSESSMENT, NOW WORKING ON RPG IMPACT SITE.\012\012%%%: EOD ASSESSES THAT AT LEAST %%% X %%% ARMOR RPG WAS FIRED FROM EAST TO WEST, DETONATED ON A %%%, POSSIBLE SMALL ARMS FIRE ROUNDS %%% IN THE AREA. \012\012%%%: RECOVERY OF DMG VEHICLE COMPLETE\012------------------------------------\012EOD ASSESSMENT: //%%% MANEUVERED TO A POST BLAST ISO /%%% AT %%%. SAPPER %%% WAS CONDUCTING A ROUTE %%% MISSION TRAVELLING %%% ON RTE %%% WHEN THE SECOND VEHICLE, A %%%, WAS STRUCK BY AN IED CAUSING A MOBILITY KILL AND NO INJURIES TO PERSONNEL. WITHIN SECONDS OF THE IED DETONATION AN RPG ATTACK OCCURRED, PIERCING A NEARBY CONCRETE BARRIER %%% WEST OF THE RTE. %%% ARRIVED, PERFORMED /%%%, CONDUCTED A SECONDARY SEARCH AND ESTABLISHED A SAFE AREA AT . %%% WAS INFORMED THAT USF AND FP PERSONNEL WERE AT AND NEAR THE BLAST SEAT AND HAD CONDUCTED SECURITY SWEEPS OF THE AREA. TEAM CONDUCTED A POST BLAST ANALYSIS OF THE BLAST SEAT, THE STRUCK VEHICLE AND THE RPG POINT OF IMPACT. %%% WAS GIVEN APPROXIMATELY %%% FEET OF RED AND WHITE WIRE WHICH HAD BEEN COLLECTED BY THE FP PRIOR TO EOD ARRIVAL, AS WELL AS A TAIL BOOM OF A PG-%%% RPG. TAIL BOOM WAS DISCOVERED AT THE BASE OF THE BARRIER %%%. TEAM WAS ESCORTED TO SUSPECTED TRIGGER LOCATION DISCOVERING NO INITIATION COMPONENTS OR ANY ITEMS OF SIGNIFICANCE. ALL ITEMS COLLECTED %%% TO WIT %%% FOR FURTHER EXPLOITATION.\012\012%%% DOES NOT BELIEVE THE EFP TARGETED A SPECIFIC TYPE OF USF VEHICLE BUT WAS PLACED WITH THE INTENTION OF HALTING A USF CONVOY DURING A COMPLEX ATTACK. %%% ASSESSES THE DEVICE AS A COPPER-LINED COMMAND-WIRED EFP, %%%" IN DIAMETER AND %%%. THE BLAST SEAT MEASURED """%%% CONSISTENT WITH -%%% POUNDS OF UBE. THE HOLE CREATED FROM THE RPG IMPACT WAS %%%' HIGH AND LIKELY FIRED FROM A NEARBY %%%.\012\012------------------------------------\012S2 ASSESSMENT: THIS ATTACK WAS LIKELY CONDUCTED BY THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE %%% EFP CELL. IT IS ASSESSED THAT THIS CELL IS CONDUCTING ATTACKS ALL ALONG RTE %%% DUE TO THE HIGH AMOUNT OF CF TRAFFIC ON THE ROUTE. %%% INCORPORATION OF AN RPG INDICATES THAT THIS CELL COULD HAVE TIES TO %%% OR %%%. THIS ALSO INDICATES THAT THERE WERE MULTIPLE %%% WHO CONDUCTED THIS ATTACK. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT FUTURE ATTACKS CONDUCTED BY THIS CELL %%% EITHER RPG OR SAF ATTACKS AFTER THE INITIAL IED DETONATION. \012------------------------------------\012SUMMARY:\012\0121X EFP ATTACK\0121X RPG ATTACK\0120X INJ\0121X %%% DMG\012\012//CLOSED//