"IED" is "improvised explosive device."
This article is about several cases where young Iraqi guys were told they could not marry a girl they wanted and used their wartime skills in bomb making to plant a bomb either outside the family's house or their own, as a kind of set-up. Apparently it's a popular form of threat these days in certain neighborhoods of Baghdad. There are also cases of students trying to bomb teachers after being upset with grades, etc.

“These guys, they face any problem with their girlfriends, family, anyone, and they’re making this kind of I.E.D.,” Captain Hussein said.

My question is, how much does this really have to do with the war? Is this really a case of frustrated soldiers who are having trouble dealing with the real world? It sounds to me more like gang members with a bigger and badder weapon they are now going to use to intimidate people and get their way.

Looks to me like the only way the war was involved was in creating an environment where various factions were around and kids could learn how to make these bombs. It doesn't say anything in the article about the kids being former soldiers.

How do you think society could deal with this kind of phenomenon? How should the response take into account the fact of the war?