Most remote-controlled bombs in Iraq are triggered by radio frequencies — from a garage-door opener, a mobile phone, or a children’s toy. But, for years, there has been a steady trickle of stories about explosives set off by pulses of light, instead. Cryptome has unearthed the first video I’ve seen of such a weapon. It uses a remote photographic flash, or "slave," to get the bomb to go boom.
There have been long-circulating rumors that British intelligence agents taught the IRA — who then taught the Iraqis — how to make these bombs. I’m not sure how much substance there is to the talk, if any.
