[jester]

I disagreee Web. Some of the more successful bombers in our time have been single persons or small cells operating on their ownl. From Theodore Kazinsky and a good number of the IRA bombers to McVeih to some of the folks operating in the ME, and of course durring the 80s with the countless groups of terrorist groups sponsored by the Soviets and militant Arab states.

It also has been used by lone actors or small cells not just in Iraq, but also in several other resistance movements throughout history <mostly the 20th Century of course> To get ideas, one just needs to check the history books for such actions and operatives.

In essance though, there are just three main means of detonation, Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical. You just need to vary how you use them. And, it is just limited by the human imagination, so if you give it time, such things and variations will come to mind.

In the T2K context I can see one or two old soldiers who have found a home, an know they can't take on a sizable military force so they don't. They just submit.....on the surface. But at night, the roads are mined, bombs are left here there and everywhere. Or they just rig the woods in and around their town as a defense.

I can see something akin to the Willie E. Coyote where they set an elaborate string of tripwires and pressure devices engage an enemy patrol and flee, getting them to follow. They set the traps so they avoid tripping them but their persuers, well they end up with half their force out from the assorted mines and boobytraps.

It is a force equalizer that was used with success in Indo China in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s in A-Stan by the Russians, in Iraq and A-Stan by the Indig and in Africa and Latin America durring their coup de jour.

I mean, something akin to a claymore has the potential to nuetralize a much larger force than those using it, as well as it being known becomes an area denial weapon so even when its element of surporise is lost it still remains effective. And, then there is the phsycological value, if it is known to be an area it has a certain demoralizing effect. And that goes if there are weapons or not there.

Remember, the weapons don't even have to be detonated or emplaced for that matter to be effective.

And then we have the various mines used by the Finns durring The Winter War, or the Germans with the shoe mine. Very simple designs.