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Old 08-04-2010, 05:23 AM
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animated graphic of Afghan IEDs (w/ Iron Maiden soundtrack)

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Shows the frequency & location of IED bombings. I have a professional interest in visual presentation of numerical data, and this is very well done IMHO. But when I think about what it means ... yikes.
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:09 AM
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Scary stuff. Were the counters for the wounded/dead on either side? If so, we suffered a frighteningly low amount of casualties compared to deaths.
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:48 AM
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Here's what the author says:
"I made this animated map showing IEDs as documented in the recent major data leak facilitated by Wikileaks (overlaid on a NATO map of the area). It starts off slow, but the longer you wait, the more furious the attacks seem to get.

The green explosions are ones in which no one was hurt, yellow ones are injuries only, and red ones are fatal IEDs. On the death and injury tallies, the left column is friendlies (including both allied forces and civilians), and the right column is so-called "enemies". "
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:52 AM
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Wow. That's awful. I'm guessing most of the 'friendlies' were civilians.
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