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    This map shows the location of every improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Afghanistan from 2004-2009, which includes IED explosions and ambushes involving small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Over 1,900 total IED attacks are plotted on the map, with increasing attacks recorded each year from 191 in 2004 to over 800 in 2009. Several key regions are called out that experienced high numbers of IED attacks targeting US and German troops, such as Kunduz, Korengal Valley, and Highway One surrounding the country.

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    Every IED explosion or IED found/cleared in Afghanistan

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    This map shows the location of every improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Afghanistan from 2004-2009, which includes IED explosions and ambushes involving small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Over 1,900 total IED attacks are plotted on the map, with increasing attacks recorded each year from 191 in 2004 to over 800 in 2009. Several key regions are called out that experienced high numbers of IED attacks targeting US and German troops, such as Kunduz, Korengal Valley, and Highway One surrounding the country.

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    Afghanistan IED Attacks - 2006 To 2009

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    This map shows the location of every improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Afghanistan from 2004-2009, which includes IED explosions and ambushes involving small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Over 1,900 total IED attacks are plotted on the map, with increasing attacks recorded each year from 191 in 2004 to over 800 in 2009. Several key regions are called out that experienced high numbers of IED attacks targeting US and German troops, such as Kunduz, Korengal Valley, and Highway One surrounding the country.

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    Six years of IED attacks located U Z B E K I S TA N TA J I K I S TA N

    IED attacks year by year


    This map shows the location of every improvised explosive device (IED)
    attack logged by the database. It includes IED explosions and ambushes 2004
    (where an explosion includes Taliban small arms fire and RPG attacks, for
    instance). It excludes hoaxes and suicide bombers

    Mazar-e
    Sharif
    Kunduz Kunduz is the heart of the Total
    German military deployment. In the 191
    last year troops have suffered
    increasing rocket and IED attacks
    T U R K M E N I S TA N
    Meymaneh 2005
    Korengal Valley Most contested
    battlefield for US soldiers until they
    shifted to Helmand in 2009. Dubbed
    ‘the valley of death’ by US forces, more
    than 42 soldiers had died there when it
    withdrew its forces

    Total
    Charikar First recorded IED attack 366
    Kabul The capital has been rocked
    25 January 2004, midnight: US
    by a series of daring Taliban attacks
    marines ambushed south of Abad
    A FG H A N I S TA N on five-star hotels, shopping
    centres, UN guesthouses and
    Kabul A01
    with IED and RPG fire
    2006
    government ministries
    A01
    Jalalabad
    Herat

    Highway One (A01) Key 1,375-mile


    A01 road ringing the country. The busiest Peshawar
    stretch, from Kabul to Kandahar, is a
    life-threatening journey for all but the Khost Stomping ground of Sirajuddin Haqqani,
    most heavily protected vehicles one of the Taliban's fiercest commanders, and Islamabad Total
    the site of hundreds of attacks on US troops,
    Gardez
    many by insurgents crossing from safe havens
    797
    Highway One (A01) in Pakistan's tribal belt PA K I S TA N
    2007
    Last recorded IED attack of 2009 Sangin The most dangerous town in Afghanistan for Kandahar Spiritual homeland of the Taliban, the
    Sangin, 31 December: A dismounted Nato soldiers, accounting for a third of British fatalities base of leader Mullah Muhammad Omar until he
    patrol of The Rifles hit by an IED which since 2001. Located near the main highway that rings was forcibly ejected by US troops in 2001.
    killed one soldier and wounded two more the country, it is a major transit centre for opium and Winning the town back has been a long-held
    most deaths have been caused by IEDs. The British are desire of the insurgents, who have dispatched
    due to hand control to US troops in November dozens of suicide bombers there

    A01
    Total
    1,147
    A01

    2008

    Kandahar

    IRAN
    See enlarged detail

    Total
    Lashkar Gah Provincial capital of Helmand
    and home to British miltiary command
    1,632
    (although most troops are located in Camp
    Bastion, to the north-west). Last week two
    British soldiers were killed near Lashkar Gah 2009
    as they tried to rescue an injured colleague

    HELMAND KANDAHAR Quetta

    Total
    HELMAND KANDAHAR 3,420
    100 miles 20 miles

    IEDs exploded and cleared 20 Aug 2009 Where the IEDs exploded Civilian victims of IEDs measured by the database 1,569
    Explosion/ambush Found/cleared
    Presidential 537 North
    Killed by IEDs Wounded by IEDs
    7,553 8,582
    election West
    274 2,187 4,811
    CHINA
    Total Total 454 364 Capital
    Total Total
    1,257 IRAN
    400
    1 Jan 2006 - British troops move into southern
    221 Casualty figures are not measured accurately
    on the database - these numbers give an

    300
    Afghanistan as part of Nato International
    Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
    indication of the effect rather than a
    comprehensive statistical analysis
    993 INDIA
    Total*
    9 Sep 2008 - Extra 4,500 US troops to
    Afghanistan - the “quiet surge"
    7,553
    East
    770 793
    200
    2,983
    9 Oct 2004 – Hamid Karzai
    wins presidential elections 518
    with 55% of vote South
    100
    3,701 347 360
    122 96 126
    0
    1 Dec 2009 - Obama boosts US troop numbers
    by 30,000, bringing total to 100,000 47 GRAPHIC: PAUL SCRUTON, MICHAEL ROBINSON, IAN JEFFRIES
    DATAPOINTS: DAITHI O’CRUALAOICH
    CAPTIONS: DECLAN WALSH, SIMON ROGERS
    2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 *Unknown 10 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

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