---
title: "Is This Insane ISIS VBIED Video Bullsh*t?"
date: "2017-03-10"
modified: "2017-03-10"
authors:
  - name: "Adam Linehan"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/adamlinehan/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/insane-isis-vbied-video-bullsht/"
categories:
  - "Analysis"
  - "Around the World"
  - "Middle East"
  - "Munitions"
  - "News"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Weapons"
tags:
  - "central command"
  - "ISIS"
  - "Terrorism"
  - "video"
---

# Is This Insane ISIS VBIED Video Bullsh\*t?

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19039138-1.png>)

A 38-second video that appears to show a vehicle-borne IED chasing down a pair of Humvees in a desert somewhere — presumably, the Middle East — is making rounds on social media.

https://twitter.com/bjoernstritzel/status/840258207050268674

The footage, which is watermarked with the ISIS black flag, appears to have been recorded by a surveillance drone. According to [Laith Alkhouri](<https://twitter.com/MENAanalyst>), an NBC News counterterrorism analyst, the video was officially released today by ISIS’s media arm. What the footage captures, however, is open to interpretation.

One could safely assume that this is a video of an ISIS militant executing one of the jihadist group’s favorite battlefield tactics: roving car bombs.

But the explosion is spectacular enough to warrant suspicion. “I notice we don’t see the aftermath,” Stars & Stripes reporter and Marine vet Chad Garland [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/chadgarland/status/840290138215309314>) after watching the slickly produced video. “I’m just doubtful given the video doesn’t cut to it,” he [added](<https://twitter.com/chadgarland/status/840292057839218691>).

Are there some serious Adobe After Effects at work here? You be the judge.