According to a Washington Post article on September 30, 2007: “Since May 2003, insurgents have launched over eighty-one thousand IED [improvised explosive device] attacks on U.S. and allied forces, killing or wounding thousands of U.S. troops. The U.S. military’s efforts to combat the use of IEDs have not been particularly successful; as one senior CENTCOM [Central Command] officer put it, ‘Hell, we’re getting our ass kicked.’ ”
– Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 280