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  • initialism military, US Car bomb

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Examples

  • Eliminating threats such as the VBIED is the focus of Army's 3rd Counter-IED Conference that was scheduled July 28-30.

    HERE, THERE AND BACK AGAIN - A Townhall.com user blog 2010

  • The potential partnership bares alarming implications due to Hezbollah's long-established capabilities, specifically their expertise in the making of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices VBIED's.

    From Tehran to Tijuana Bret Stephens 2011

  • After the suspicious vehicle was confirmed to be a VBIED — a variant of the No. 1 killer of Americans on the battlefield — a joint terminal attack controller cleared the Reaper to employ a GBU-12 laser-guided weapon against the vehicle.

    28 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • After the suspicious vehicle was confirmed to be a VBIED — a variant of the No. 1 killer of Americans on the battlefield — a joint terminal attack controller cleared the Reaper to employ a GBU-12 laser-guided weapon against the vehicle.

    weird name for a uav 2008

  • It's the same culture that allows US soldiers to continue patrolling Iraqi highways in lightly armored Humvees, knowing that terrorists would rather plant a roadside bomb or hit them with a VBIED, than confront them directly.

    Today's Odd Commentary on Space - NASA Watch 2007

  • It's the same culture that allows US soldiers to continue patrolling Iraqi highways in lightly armored Humvees, knowing that terrorists would rather plant a roadside bomb or hit them with a VBIED, than confront them directly.

    NASA Watch: August 2007 Archives 2007

  • Why don't you come here to Iraq and see the stuff yourselves like the drones and VBIED?

    legitgov 2009

  • When one of them is blown up while shouting “VBIED!” instead of “car bomb!”

    That’s Real Talk | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Poor bomb making with typically poor execution – there would be nothing left of the vehicle or that poor bike rider had this been a Baghdad VBIED.

    Archive 2009-08-01 membrain 2009

  • Poor bomb making with typically poor execution – there would be nothing left of the vehicle or that poor bike rider had this been a Baghdad VBIED.

    Reality Check on Recent Events in Afghanistan membrain 2009

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