Examining The Scenes Of IED Crimes

Examination of vehicle-borne IED during weapons intelligence training.

Improvised explosive devices have grown from an occasional makeshift threat to a ubiquitous one. Not only are devices becoming more effective, they are being used more often outside of widely reported battle zones.

During the first nine months of 2011, there was an average of 608 attacks each month in 99 countries, according to the Pentagon. Data from the Defense Dept. released last fall indicated that...