The following amazing video spotted over at ZeroHedge shows in animated form all the Improvised Explosive Devices that have gone off in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009. The data comes from the vast array of documents recently made available by wikileaks.

Whilst it starts off quite slowly, the later months are amazing to watch as many thousands of devices go off each day.

From Zerohedge :

Too lazy to comb through the thousands of disclosures in the Wikileaks data? Shannon Larratt has created the following youtube video of monthly IED events in Afghanistan, in which a monthly tally of injuries and casualties is kept, both “friendly” and “enemy.” The results are dramatic, and reminiscent of the clip showing how the US and Russia nuked their own territory several thousand times in the past 60 years. They are also reminiscent of various admonitions (unheeded) from The Prince Bride.

Here is how Shannon describes the data:

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.

In case you missed it, the final totals from the video are as follows :

Bombs: 13625

Injuries: 12537

Deaths: 6127

Interesting to note how many of the devices are going off near the border with Pakistan but as they have nukes they must be our friends and couldn’t possibly be sponsoring terrorists.

Could they?