In certain occasions, they have been able to show how to use surprise -- elements of surprise, mobility and fire power.

It would appear that it was a buried 50 kg (110 pound) device, and it may have been very simple. It was command (remotely) detonated at the front of the tank, blowing the engine clean out of the top of the tank and killing the driver instantly.

This bears all the hallmarks of a Hezbollah type of operation.

They are set up along the line of task forces. ... They throw together whatever the elements they need to do the job at hand.

They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are."

"Well, good," I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.