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Thomas Weidley, chief of staff, Combined Joint Task Force &#8211; Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters on a Pentagon conference call that the militant group, also called ISIL or ISIS, has taken to using IEDs <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">the weapons, known as IEDs, <\/span>in much the same manner the US employs high-end strike weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Obviously [IEDs have] become the precision guided munition [PGM], if you will, for [ISIL],&#8221; Weidley said. &#8220;We see them, again, as one of their primary weapon systems in order to disrupt, in order to penetrate [Iraqi or Kurdish] lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, an IED does not have the same high-end targeting that a PGM has. But the advantage for ISIL, in that comparison, is cost. 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