(IED)
Terrorists have no way to manufacture sophisticated explosive bombs by themselves. They either have to buy them from countries who will sell them or find them after a war. The reasons for this difficulty is that most bombs are made for military uses and most countries do not sell their bombs, especially to terrorists. There is one kind of bomb that terrorists don't usually have trouble finding and that is the land mine. Land mines have been left burried underground all over the world are easy to find and changed into a newer sort of bomb.
Most
bombs used by terrorists are bombs that they make from simple materials,
or from other pieces of found bombs. The bombs that they make themselves
are called improvised explosive devices (IED's).
All it takes to make an improvised bomb is an explosive main charge, a
fuse, and a trigger to make the bomb explode. Sometimes terrorists wrap
layers of sharp pieces of metal around the bomb so that when it explodes,
it causes greater injury and kills more people than it would have without
the layer.
Terrorists use pipe bombs more than any other kind of bomb. They are easy to make and hide inside clothing and automobiles. Pipe bombs are made from iron, steel, copper, or aluminum pipes and gunpowder. Sometimes the bombs are encased in a coating of nails in order to kill or injure more people.
These explosive devices are meant to blow up and destroy equipment and troops that are moving along the ground or in the water. It is designed to explode when something touches it. There are two kinds of land mindes burried int the ground: anti-tank mines and anti-personnel mines.
Every year around 26,000 people across the world are killed or maimed by landmines that were left behind by retreating troops, or at the end of a war. Finding burried landmines has been hard for the citizens and military to locate since they can not bee seen. One interesting fact is that a simple insect, the bee, is being trained to detect landmines.
Powerful bombs made of fertilizer. The fertilizer is made up mostly of a chemical mixture called ammonium nitrate. The bombs made from fertilizer are powerful enough to destroy large buildings.
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