IED Attacks in Afghanistan 2004-2009

** The animation was rendered at high resolution, so you'll have a much better viewing experience at 720p. **

I made this animated map showing IEDs as documented in the recent major data leak facilitated by Wikileaks (overlaid on a NATO map of the area). It starts off slow, but the longer you wait, the more furious the attacks seem to get.

The green explosions are ones in which no one was hurt, yellow ones are injuries only, and red ones are fatal IEDs. On the death and injury tallies, the left column is friendlies (including both allied forces and civilians), and the right column is so-called "enemies". Everything else should be obvious.

I created this with some quick one-off custom software written late at night to do the required animation (loosely inspired by a tool I built in the 90s to animate web server log files, but only very loosely since I no longer have the source code). The reason I mention this is to apologize in advance for any errors.

FINALLY, please do feel free to repost this anywhere you would like. If you need raw video, or want my cleaned CSV files of the IED data, or want a different rendering, feel free tp drop me a line at snowrail@gmail.com or at my zentastic.com website.

I originally downloaded the data from The Guardian. You can do so as well via: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/26/wikileaks-afghanistan-ie...

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News & Politics

Tags:

• ied
• afghanistan
• map
• war
• wikileaks
• zentastic
• shannon larratt

[JormTroll]

Remember kids, Jesus spoke only in motherfucking caps lock.

[screwball000]

So this video only helps prove where the fuckers are coming from... the friendly neighbor to the east.. Pakistan.

[ymmmmot1]

@cmitchell45 What do you mean with last free place??

[Armyboy2011ify]

@Enzo935 lololololololololol you prick muslims are the most hated in the world and will be executed off the face of the earth very soon

[Enzo935]

@cmitchell45 "afghani never give up! we never submit to evil! get out of our counrty and take your way of life with you! we fine before you came! fuk that propaganda about taliban being evil. taliban is a legitamate SYSTEM. They are corrupt but not not near as much as the KARZAI government or the C.I.A. and it's mother called U.S.A. get out of our country damn invaders!" that sounds great, by the way, have you ever seen a 60inch plasma? yeah they have those in the west..

[sapperzulu]

Nothing for Iraq?

[cmitchell45]

@haris179 your right borther. and we must never give in. Afghanistan is the last free place on earth. This is the war of humanity!

[cmitchell45]

@haris179 exactly!

[cmitchell45]

afghani never give up! we never submit to evil! get out of our counrty and take your way of life with you! we fine before you came! fuk that propaganda about taliban being evil. taliban is a legitamate SYSTEM. They are corrupt but not not near as much as the KARZAI government or the C.I.A. and it's mother called U.S.A. get out of our country damn invaders!

[rdezoveelste]

Can we see this in slow-motion please?

[micidragan]

@screwball000

This video shows how some unfortunate young men were tricked and got their ass kicked.

[hargohargo2]

 americans should have learnt from the russians and the british you cant win a war in afghanistan its like fighting on the moon.