VBIED (VEE-bid) acronym. A car or other vehicle rigged to act as a bomb. (From vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.)
Example Citation: Across the river in the predominantly Sunni district along Haifa Street, Col. Bryan Roberts, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Brigade, said an increase in vehicle bombs had led him to introduce a plan to barricade five markets in the district. “My biggest concerns security-wise are the current attack methods, the VBIEDs, suicide vests,” he said. …
The government should take measures “at the national level to help the poor guy in the end zone who’s trying to stop VBIEDs,” Bannister said.
—Ann Scott Tyson, “The Two Sides of Baghdad Barriers,” The Washington Post, April 30, 2007
