“[A]ccording to the Pentagon’s bomb squad, the average cost of an IED [improvised explosive device] is just a few hundred bucks, pocket change to a well-funded insurgency. Worse, over time, the average cost of the cheapo IEDs have dropped from $1,125 in 2006 to $265 in 2009.”
– Spencer Ackerman, “$265 Bomb, $300 Billion War: The Economics of the 9/11 Era’s Signature Weapon,” Wired, Sep. 22, 2010