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Suicide Bombers Kill 30, Wound 100 at Pakistani Shrine
By not in system - AOL NewsMULTAN, Pakistan -- A pair of suicide bombers struck a shrine in Pakistan Sunday, killing 30 people gathered there and pressing a campaign of attacks against places of worship that extremists consider un-Islamic, officials said. The practice of praying, singing and meditating at the shrines of holy men is widespread and much loved across Pakistan, but extremists consider it a dangerous deviation from the austere Islam they espouse. Several thousand people were attending celebrations to mark the anniversary of the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province when the ...
Booby-Trap Bomb Kills Northern Ireland Policeman
By not in system - AOL NewsDUBLIN -- Northern Ireland police say a 25-year-old officer has been killed by a booby-trap bomb placed under his car. Neighbors of the victim say the car was put ablaze by the blast in a neighborhood of Omagh. They say the victim had only recently joined the police force. Since 2007, Irish Republican Army dissidents have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers. The bombs usually fail to detonate and had killed nobody until Saturday. Previously, two policemen have lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010. IRA dissidents committed the ...
Pentagon: Libya Mission Has Cost US $550M So Far
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The military intervention in Libya has cost the Pentagon an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said Tuesday. The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay for U.S. sailors, airmen and other forces, who would have been deployed somewhere in the world anyway, officials said. But it is the first official figure released on the cost of setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi as he resists a movement to oust ...
From Pat-Downs to Rat-Downs? Scientists Suggest Mice for Airport Security
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWhen you go to the airport, do you feel comfortable getting an enhanced pat-down? What about an enhanced rat-down? Israeli scientists say they have found a way to harness the power of mice to bolster airport security. Brothers Eran and Alon Lumbroso have constructed an explosive detector that looks like a standard airport metal detector or full-body scanner -- only it's filled with mice, according to New Scientist. Robert F. Bukaty, AP You don't want mice in your house -- but in your airport they could be a lifesaver. An Israeli company has created a device that uses trained mice ...
Underwear Bomb Suspect's Trial Set for October
By not in system - AOL NewsDETROIT (AP) - A judge on Tuesday set an Oct. 4 trial date for a Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 using a bomb hidden in his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is acting as his own lawyer, asked for a 2012 date and said he might not have enough time to prepare. But U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said a fall trial was best for now. "We need to move this case along," she said. Abdulmutallab is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiring with others to kill 281 passengers and 11 crew members ...
Police Burn Down House They Say Was Bomb Factory
By Tori Richards - AOL News
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (Dec. 9) -- A San Diego-area house that authorities say doubled as the nation's largest bomb factory burned to the ground today with a plume of toxic smoke that reached 2,700 feet. The spectacle was monitored by more than 100 personnel from a myriad of agencies that included the ATF, EPA, National Weather Service, and San Diego County Sheriff's bomb squad. "You saw the fire -- it was very evil looking with flames four stories high," sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Caldwell told a horde of media monitoring the situation downhill. "It went all according to plan." Sandy ...
Authorities to Destroy Calif. House Packed With Explosives
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN DIEGO (Dec. 9) -- Some neighbors were headed out of town and others were staying nearby as authorities made final preparations to destroy a suburban San Diego home so packed with explosives that it was deemed too dangerous to enter. Sheriff's deputies knocked on doors Wednesday night to urge scores of residents to leave before the home is set ablaze. Residents farther away were told to close their windows and stay inside during the highly controlled burn, which was scheduled to begin after Thursday morning rush hour. Crews have built a 16-foot firewall to protect the closest homes. ...
Greek Anarchist Group Claims Responsibility for Mail Bombs
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- A Greek anarchist group says it was behind a spate of mail bombs against foreign targets earlier this month. Two men who were arrested in connection with the attacks wrote a letter to news network Indymedia. It said they were part of a group called Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which sent the bombs, The New York Times reported. The pair said they were involved in "the dispatch of parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the headquarters of the World Court in The Hague and the embassies of Belgium and Mexico in Athens," Agence France-Presse reported. Related ...
Marines to Send Bomb-Spotting Radar to Afghanistan
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- A new handheld, ground-penetrating radar device will be used to combat the roadside bombs that are the top killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a Marine general said today. In Afghanistan, the homemade bombs typically use pressure plates with low levels of metal, making them particularly hard to find, Lt .Gen. George Flynn, commanding general of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, told reporters at a round table this morning. "[The ground-penetrating radar] can actually find an anomaly on the ground," he said. When roadside bombs proliferated in Iraq following the ...
Police: Mail Bombs Could Have Exploded Over East Coast
By David Lohr - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- A mail bomb that was intercepted at East Midlands Airport in England last month could have exploded over the Eastern Seaboard, Scotland Yard said today. "If the device had not been removed from the aircraft, the activation could have occurred over the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.," British officials said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. The bomb, which was disguised as a printer cartridge, had been sent from Yemen and was bound for an airport in Philadelphia when it was discovered on Oct 29. According to British police, the bomb was timed to detonate about ...
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