these "viable" IEDs that keep being found

Gone West

Whats going on?
Who is planting them and how are the emergency services finding them?
Why do the media always refer to them as viable IEDs instead of bombs as they used to?

Obviously somebody is phoning in and telling the Gardai/Army about these, but why and to what end?

The guys in the bomb squad are truly heroes, and my hat goes off to them.
They are doing hundreds of callouts per year.
But why isn't the media reporting on this trend, to me it sounds like a massive story.

Heres a small selection from the last month or so.

http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-device-made-safe-at-phoenix-park-435880-May2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-tallaght-440966-May2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-by-bomb-squad-in-tipperary-432827-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-athlone-427727-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/two-viable-explosive-devices-made-safe-in-dublin-overnight-405222-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-finglas-401504-Mar2012/

BrianD

It's quite incredible the number of call outs and IEDs that are being dealt with every month. Yet, there is no real discussion of it on a political or media level.

Anybody know what the number of call outs are so far this year and how this would compare with, say, London?

Delancey

Good question OP , I've been wondering the same as you.
Lately Dublin reminds me of 1970's Belfast in terms of bomb alerts.

msg11

BrianD wrote: »

It's quite incredible the number of call outs and IEDs that are being dealt with every month. Yet, there is no real discussion of it on a political or media level.

Anybody know what the number of call outs are so far this year and how this would compare with, say, London?

If I recall, I think the figure is so far 59.

Source here says 49 and that's in March. Quite and alarming amount of call outs. Good job on behalf of the Gardai/Army, but going at this rate its only a matter of time before one explodes.

time lord

Fuzzy wrote: »

Whats going on?
Who is planting them and how are the emergency services finding them?
Why do the media always refer to them as viable IEDs instead of bombs as they used to?

Obviously somebody is phoning in and telling the Gardai/Army about these, but why and to what end?

The guys in the bomb squad are truly heroes, and my hat goes off to them.
They are doing hundreds of callouts per year.
But why isn't the media reporting on this trend, to me it sounds like a massive story.

Heres a small selection from the last month or so.

http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-device-made-safe-at-phoenix-park-435880-May2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-tallaght-440966-May2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-by-bomb-squad-in-tipperary-432827-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-athlone-427727-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/two-viable-explosive-devices-made-safe-in-dublin-overnight-405222-Apr2012/
http://www.thejournal.ie/viable-explosive-device-made-safe-in-finglas-401504-Mar2012/

Whats going on is that they are more readily available to buy.

Who are planting them are the criminals who buy them. Why they plant them is to cause harm, instill fear and even a bit of one upmanship on each other. Causes the intended victims to "up their game" too.

I can't speak for the media but its just a term "viable explosive". Its a term of reference. These terms usually stem from military circles and say the term of BOMB or BOOBYTRAP are just not used very often by those in the military any more.

Locust

I think the term viable means its not a fake. The thing could actually detonate. There are loads more fakes than viable devices such a waste of peoples time.

arybvtcw0eolkf

msg11 wrote: »

Good job on behalf of the Gardai/Army, but going at this rate its only a matter of time before one explodes.

From March 13th, 2012..

Gardaí in Cork yesterday questioned a 34- year-old man about an explosive device which went off under a car in a suburb on the northside of the city and injured a member of the Army’s bomb disposal team.

The bomb disposal officer from Collins Barracks in Cork was assessing the device found under the vehicle at Mervue Lawn in Ballyvolane, when the device exploded unexpectedly at about 12.45am yesterday.

The bomb disposal expert was lying close to the vehicle and was wearing a kevlar protective suit which protected him from the brunt of the blast but he did suffer some injuries and was taken by ambulance to Cork University Hospital.

Viable just mean's its real.. And IED 'Improvised Exploded Devise' just means its 'home made' (usually here to the layman its a 'pipe bomb') or in the case of oversea's its usually other unexploded ordnance rigged as a bobby trap.

All members of the EOD teams are volunteers, and as a matter of interest they pay for and organize their own life insurance policies!. But its a job each and everyone of them love to provide to the community.

BigDuffman

Fuzzy wrote: »

Whats going on?
Who is planting them and how are the emergency services finding them?
Why do the media always refer to them as viable IEDs instead of bombs as they used to?

As for who is planting them and why, I think its better that the media do not give the scumbags exposure...we've all seen the effects of a red-top rag branding a **** human being with an impressive nickname has. No need to inflate their "rep".

The media have become aware of the term as its becoming more prevalent from the reporting being done over in sandy places. An IED is a bomb/booby trap/something made to go boom.