Re: [GZG] Armoured utility vehicles and IEDs in SG/DS

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n wrote on 18/07/2008 06:46:15:

> On 7/17/08, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, victim-operated is a really odd description. Makes it sound
like
> > something you'd do intentionally. <ick!>
> 
> Term of art.	It refers to a device which operates as a result of the
> action of the victim.  A tripwire, for instance,is victim operated
> because the person who laid it does not detonate it, you do when you
> trip over it.  So is a pressure plate, whether a factory-made one on
> top of a land mine or a pair of hacksaw blades hooked to a battery and
> a blasting cap.
> 
> John

Ah!  I assumed it was simply a tongue-in-cheek reference to suicide 
bombers.

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