Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb

The Shiite suicide bomber was largely a Frankenstein monster of Ariel Sharon’s deliberate creation. 3.5 stars. A grim book which offers a panoply of explosion description. There are almost a hundred years of accounts depicting burnt and dismembered corpses amidst countless descriptions of blast crate......more

"Buda's wagon truly has become the hot rod of the apocalypse," Davis concludes. Quips like that offer some ironic relief in this relentless genealogy of vehicle-borne terrorism. At his worst, Davis has the favorite vice of American pundits (left or right) of simply channel-surfing the misery of ever......more

The car bomb, or VBIED (Vehicle Born Improved Explosive Device), if you have an MSAF (Milspec Acronym Fetish) is the guerrilla smart bomb. In its more basic form, it marries the mundane infrastructure of urban life like trucks and driveways, to easily available explosives like ANFO and diesel fuel,......more

A grim but gripping read. Davis deftly braids disparate bands bringing distributed destruction, unsuspecting or unscrupulous dignitaries and urban disenfranchised both deploying and devastated by a bomb delivery device boldly and dutifully designed with despicable disregard for death and damage.......more

This is a list of every time someone used a car to blow something or someone up. and there's nothing you, me, or the government can do about it. ban cars. who ever has heard of a bicycle bomb?......more