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The suspect believed to have placed a pipe bomb in a Colorado mall was released from a federal prison -- where he served time for a bank robbery -- exactly one week before the botched bombing, a federal law enforcement source told CNN Sunday.
The FBI Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force identified the subject of a nationwide manhunt as Earl Albert Moore, 65.
Authorities, who released more photos of the suspect, said he has an extensive criminal background and multiple recognizable tattoos. They also said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
According to the source, Moore was released from an unknown federal prison on April 13.
A pipe bomb device was found after a fire broke out Wednesday in a back hallway at Southwest Plaza Mall in Littleton. The shopping center was evacuated.
The photos released Sunday show a man identified as Moore with a rose tattoo on his upper right arm, a knife or dagger on his left arm and a bearded Nordic warrior on his left forearm. He was last seen wearing glasses, the task force said in a statement.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/24/colorado.mall.incident/index.htmlThe suspect believed to have placed a pipe bomb in a Colorado mall was released from a... more
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Did anyone lose a bomb in Detroit? Because there's one in the lost-and-found of a federal office building there. Or there was, for three weeks, until security guards decided to scan it and realized what they had.
The bomb was inside a package left outside the building, and picked up by a nonunion contracted security guard, who put it in the lost and found. And, as you might imagine, the Government Employees Local is having a field day:
[President of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 918 David] Wright called the mishap a "contracting mess," complaining that the use of private contractors impedes the security guard command structure.
"I cannot order one of these kinds of guards to do anything," he said.
The way we see it, though, this patriotic contract employee was just trying to preserve the sacred right to private property, and save that bomb for its rightful owner—while big government union thugs like David Wright just want to confiscate your bombs. Sick!
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Anti-terrorist bomb squad experts have been called to a post office in Russia to make safe a package from which a strange ticking sound was coming, local police say.
They found a vibrator.Anti-terrorist bomb squad experts have been called to a post office in Russia to make... more
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We went from swords to machine guns and nuclear bombs, but what are the next weapons on the horizon?We went from swords to machine guns and nuclear bombs, but what are the next weapons... more
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AL-UQAYLA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels pushed west on Thursday, extending their grip on a key coast road as Muammar Gaddafi received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.
Venezuela said the Libyan leader had agreed to its proposal for an international commission to negotiate an end to the turmoil in the world's 12th largest oil exporting nation.
But Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam said there was no need for any foreign mediation in the crisis, a leader of the uprising rejected talks with the veteran leader, and the Arab League said cautiously the plan was "under consideration."
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said France and Britain would support the idea of setting up a no-fly zone over Libya if Gaddafi's forces continued to attack civilians.
President Barack Obama said the United States and the international community must be ready to act rapidly to stop violence against civilians or a humanitarian crisis in Libya.
The uprising, the bloodiest yet against a long-serving ruler in the Middle East or North Africa, has torn through the OPEC-member country and knocked out nearly 50 percent of its 1.6 million barrels per day output, the bedrock of its economy.
In eastern Libya, witnesses said a warplane bombed Brega the oil terminal town 800 km (500 miles) east of Tripoli, for the second day, part of a struggle for control of a strategically vital coast road and oil industry facilities.
Warplanes also launched two raids against the nearby rebel-held town of Ajbadiya, witnesses said.
"CIVILIAN AREAS NOT BOMBED"
But Juma Amer, Secretary for African Affairs at the Libyan Foreign Ministry, told journalists: "Media reports that civilian areas were bombed are false. Police had been and are urged to use maximum self restraint."
Saif said Brega was bombed to scare off militia fighters and to gain control of oil installations.
"First of all the bombs (were) just to frighten them to go away," he told Britain's Sky News.
On the ground, rebels leading the unprecedented popular revolt pushed their front line west of Brega.
They said they had driven back troops loyal to Gaddafi to Ras Lanuf, site of another major oil terminal and 600 km (375 miles) east of Tripoli.
They also said they had captured a group of mercenaries.
In an angry scene at al-Uqayla, east of Ras Lanuf, a rebel shouted at a captured young African and alleged mercenary: "You were carrying guns, yes or no? You were with Gaddafi's brigades yes or no?"
The silent youth was shoved onto his knees into the dirt. A man held a pistol close to the boy's face before a reporter protested and told the man the rebels were not judges.
In The Hague, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Gaddafi and members of his inner circle, could be investigated for alleged crimes committed since the uprising broke out in mid-February.
"We have identified some individuals in the de facto or former authority who have authority over the security forces who allegedly committed the crimes," Moreno-Ocampo said.
"They are Muammar Gaddafi, his inner circle including some of his sons, who had this de facto authority. There are also some people with formal authority who should pay attention to crimes committed by their people."
Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim told BBC radio the news from The Hague was "close to a joke."
"No fact-finding mission has been sent to Libya. No diplomats, no ministers, no NGOs or organisations of any type were sent to Libya to check the facts ... No one can be sent to prison based on media reports," he said.
Ibrahim Mohammad Ali, a spokesman for the public security department, said Libya had told the United Nations it would allow visits by independent human rights observers.
Libya is not a signatory of the ICC treaty, "but we are willing to deal with the ICC and take action against anyone who has acted outside the law," he told a Tripoli news conference.
A spokesman for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a Gaddafi ally, said the Libyan government had accepted a Venezuelan plan to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict in Libya.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said the plan was under consideration and he was waiting for details from Caracas.
SKEPTICISM OVER CHAVEZ PLAN
Oil prices fell briefly on news of the plan, but traders said the fall was due to profit-taking and they were skeptical about any Venezuelan mediation. Brent crude fell more than $3 but by 2000 GMT had recovered to $114.82.
Chavez's plan would involve a commission from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East trying to reach a negotiated outcome between the Libyan leader and rebel forces.
An aide to Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the rebels' National Libyan Council, told Reuters the rebels were open to talks only on Gaddafi's resignation or exile to avoid more bloodshed.
"There is nothing else to negotiate," he said.
He also called for foreign air strikes to set up a "no-fly zone" to help the rebels topple Gaddafi.
Save The Children and Medecins Sans Frontieres said they were struggling to get medicine and care to Libya's needy, with gunmen blocking roads and civilians too scared to seek help.
The government has tried to persuade people in Tripoli that life continues as normal. But there were queues at banks, and residents said food prices had gone up and the street value of the Libyan dinar had fallen dramatically against the dollar.
The official news agency said the Libyan parliament had cut car fuel prices by 25 percent to 0.15 dinars ($0.12) a liter.
A fish market near Tripoli's Green Square was mostly empty. "The situation is affecting us," said Ismail, a fisherman. "All the Egyptian workers who run the boats have left."
Just outside rebel-held Zawiyah, west of Tripoli, officials took foreign journalists to a local refinery to show it was controlled by the state. Officials said it was running normally.
But in the center of Zawiyah, rebels were fully in control and said they had enough forces to repel any government attack.
In the opposition stronghold of Benghazi, men of all ages gathered next to the courthouse engaged in fierce debates, enjoying their new-found freedom of speech.
"We must go to Tripoli and get rid of Gaddafi," shouted one, to murmurs of approval from those around him.
"But we have only our shirts to protect us from the cannon," said Ahmed el Sherif, 60, standing on the edge of the group.
The upheaval is causing a humanitarian crisis, especially on the Tunisian border where tens of thousands of foreign workers have fled to safety. But an organized international airlift started to relieve the human flood from Libya as word spread to refugees that planes were taking them home.AL-UQAYLA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels pushed west on Thursday, extending... more
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Three car bombs ripped through the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing seven and wounding up to 80 people.
The blasts struck outside the headquarters of the Kurdish intelligence forces known as the Asayish, on a highway and near a gas station in southern Kirkuk, located 180 miles north of Baghdad.
AP Television News footage showed police cars with blaring sirens racing to the Asayish headquarters with black and gray plumes of smoke rising from the first two attacks around 10am.
Minutes later, the third blast just down the street from the Asayish headquarters exploded near a taxicab and knocked people to the ground. The sounds of gunshots could be heard immediately after the last bombing.
Police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said seven were killed and up to 80 wounded in the explosions.
Dr. Khalid Ahmed of Kirkuk emergency hospital confirmed the casualty count.
Qadir said the bomb along the highway targeted a police patrol led by a top commander, Col. Ahmed Shamerani, but he was not hurt in the blast. But two policemen were among the dead, while five police and eight Asayish officials were wounded.
'We had just passed the car bomb - it was less than 40 yards away,' said policeman Meriwan Salih, whose arm was broken and who had shrapnel pierce his back when the third bomb exploded as his patrol sped by.
'The huge blast threw me into the air.'
Grocery owner Shakhwan Ahmed, 30, said one of the blasts shook his shop, sending fruit and boxes crashing to the ground.
'It was chaos - horrified people were running,' said Ahmed, lamenting the attack after what he said was a nearly six-month lull in violence in Kirkuk.
'There is no indication that there will be long-standing security in Iraq; there is always a security problem here. And terrorists are now telling us that they are coming back.'
Kirkuk is the epicenter of ethnic tensions among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen.
The city also sits on top of one-third of Iraq's estimated $11 trillion in oil reserves, and Arabs fear the Kurds want to annex Kirkuk to their northern autonomous region.
The regional tensions have stalled a long-awaited national census that would determine the real numbers of the country's religious and ethnic groups.
But the count also could inflame the larger dispute over territory and oil between Iraq's central government and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north.
Central Statistics Authority spokesman Abdul-Zahra Hendawi said Wednesday the census is still stalled, which he blamed on 'deep differences and mistrust' among Kirkuk's ethnic groups.
Last summer, Gen. Ray Odierno, who was then the top American military commander in Iraq, said UN peacekeeping forces may need to replace departing U.S. troops in disputed region if the feud between Arabs and minority Kurds continues through 2011.
His comments underscored the fragility of the area's security - and the dangers if it is disrupted - although UN officials have not embraced his suggestion.
Earlier, two minor bombings that appeared to target police wounded six people in the Iraqi capital.
The first blast wounded four outside the al-Ansar mosque in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City as a police patrol passed by. A few minutes later, the second bomb exploded on the nearby Mohammed al-Qasim highway. Officials said two policemen who were on patrol were hurt.
The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information about the Baghdad blasts.
Violence across Iraq has dropped dramatically from just a few years ago, but bombings and shootings still occur almost every day.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355170/Iraq-bomb-blast-caught-camera-Moment-explosion-ripped-city-Kirkuk-apart.html#ixzz1DTiYRg00Three car bombs ripped through the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing seven and wounding up... more
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ONE day, there may be more than X-ray machines and full-body scanners awaiting you at the airport. Listen out for the snuffling of sniffer mice as you pass through security.
The critters will not be angling for a snack, though. They are part of a bomb-detecting unit created by Israeli start-up company BioExplorers, based in Herzeliya, which claims that trained mice can be better than full-body scanners and intrusive pat-downs at telling a bona fide passenger from a terrorist carrying explosives.
Eran Lumbroso conceived the mouse-based explosives detector while serving as a major in the Israeli navy. Along with his brother, Alon, he founded the company and built a device that looks much like an average airport metal detector or full-body scanner.
Along one side of an archway, a detection unit contains three concealed cartridges, each of which houses eight mice. During their 4-hour shifts in the detector, the mice mill about in a common area in each cartridge as air is passed over people paused in the archway and through the cartridge. When the mice sniff traces of any of eight key explosives in the air, they are conditioned to avoid the scent and flee to a side chamber, triggering an alarm. To avoid false positives, more than one mouse must enter the room at the same time.
"It's as if they're smelling a cat and escaping," Eran says. "We detect the escape." Unlike dogs, which are often trained for explosives and drugs detection, mice don't require constant interaction with their trainers or treats to keep them motivated. As a result, they can live in comfortable cages with unlimited access to food and water. Each mouse would work two 4-hour shifts a day, and would have a working life of 18 months.
What's more, mice beat dogs for olfactory talent, and by much more than a nose: dogs have 756 olfactory receptor genes, while mice have 1120, resulting in a more acute sense of smell.
Attacks such as the recent bombing of Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Russia, are fuelling interest in exploring new methods for keeping travellers safe. Low-tech alternatives may appeal to people who fear new full-body scanners are exposing them to harmful radiation and invading their privacy. "Animals' noses are always a good solution, and the mice don't see you naked," says Bruce Schneier, who runs the blog Schneier on Security.
However, Schneier adds that there are drawbacks that could prevent their widespread use. For instance, their cages need regular cleaning, and new mice would have to be trained all the time because of their short working life. And while useful for explosives, they could never replace current baggage scanners and metal detectors.
Nonetheless, the company ran its first field test in December last year at Azrieli Center, a large shopping mall in Tel Aviv. More than 1000 people passed through the detector, 22 of whom were asked to hide mock explosives in pockets or under shirts. All 22 packages were detected, the Lumbrosos claim, adding that the false-alarm rate was less than 0.1 per cent.
Like a moth to an explosive
Moths have an exquisite sense of smell, so their ability to sniff out improvised explosive devices was recently tested by Andrew Myrick and Tom Baker at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
The team built a detector using four live moths which were immobilised in thin, aerated tubes.
Different chemicals produce distinct voltages on the antennae that the moths use to sense aromas, so the team wired up the moths to record these levels.
Software inferred the explosive source's direction and distance based on the strength of signals coming from the insects. The detector was then able to home in on it to within 20 centimetres from 23 metres away.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927985.700-sniffer-mice-have-a-nose-for-explosives.htmlONE day, there may be more than X-ray machines and full-body scanners awaiting you at... more
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Thank your lucky stars for those dumb text messages sent out by wireless companies, because one of them accidentally detonated a suicide bomber in Russia. With the country still reeling after the deadly attacks on the Domodedovo airport, a female suicide bomber was preparing to enter Red Square with explosives strapped to her body, but before she even made it out the door, her phone received a text message from her service provider wishing her a happy new year. Unfortunately for her, but fortunately for Moscovites, the phone had been wired up as the detonator for her bomb.
Using cellphones as detonators is a fairly widespread practice. Many IEDs in Afghanistan are detonated in this manner, but it affords the handlers of suicide bombers added insurance against “cold feet.” The Leader-Post also suggests that in addition to preventing the bomber from backing out, detonating remotely gives terrorists the added advantage of having a handler at a distance judge when the most amount of damage could be inflicted by a blast.
As viciously ironic, sad, and scary as this story is, one wonders if Russia may have stumbled upon a new deterrent against these insidious remote bombs.
http://www.geekosystem.com/text-message-bomb/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8284279/Black-Widow-attempted-New-Year-Moscow-attack-but-blew-herself-up-by-mistake.htmlThank your lucky stars for those dumb text messages sent out by wireless companies,... more
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MAKHACHKALA, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Four people have been killed and three more wounded and hospitalised in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt as a result of a car bomb explosion.
An official of the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday that the “incident took place on Wednesday at 22:10 MSK on the 739th kilometre of the Kavkaz federal highway at the exit from Khasavyurt.”
According to the source, an unknown man parked a car bomb near the “Caravan” roadside cafe. The explosion partly destroyed the cafe’s one-storey building. According to investigators, the exploded car was stolen and was being sought.
A criminal case under several articles of the RF Criminal Code, including the “act of terrorism and illegal making of explosives and explosive devices” was opened.
In another incident that took place in Khasavyurt on the night of January 20, unknown perpetrators set off an improvised explosive device near the front door of the “Caravan” supermarket in Toturbiyev Street. Nobody was hurt. The shop building was severely damaged.
Dagestan’s police said that “it is not the first time that criminals explode or set on fire shops of businessmen, who refuse to pay them a “tribute.” The leader of the local bandit underground and his several hands, who were engaged in extorting money from businessmen and committed other serious crimes against local residents and law enforcement officers, has recently been liquidated in a special police operation in Khasavyurt.
Since 2000, Dagestan has been the venue of a low-level guerrilla war, bleeding over from Chechnya; the fighting has claimed the lives of hundreds of federal servicemen and officials – mostly members of local police forces – as well as many Dagestani national rebels and civilians.
More recently, among other incidents: On May 15, 2008, two MVD officers were killed and one police officer heavily wounded during an ambush on their vehicle in Gubden. On September 8, 2008, Abdul Madzhid and several rebels were killed in an ambush by Russian special forces. On October 21, 2008, rebels ambushed a Russian military truck, killing five troops and wounding nine others. On January 6, 2010, a suicide bomber attempted to blow up a police station in Makhachkala, killing six officers and wounding 14 others. On March 31, 2010, 12 people were killed and 18 wounded by two suicide bombings in the town of Kizlyar outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency. The second bomb went off twenty minutes after the first, as a crowd had gathered. In the early hours of the next morning two people died as a bomb went off in their car, apparently prematurely, near the village of Toturbiikala.
On July 15, 2010, Pastor Artur Suleimanov, a Muslim convert to Christianity, was murdered by a gunman. The pastor was killed in his car as he was leaving the Hosanna House of Prayer in Makhachkala, Dagestan in the North Caucasus region, according to a religious persecution watchdog group, Voice of the Martyrs, report. Pastor Suleimanov's church is one of the largest Protestant churches in Dagestan. Christians in the Russian Republic of Dagestan borders Chechnya face harassment and intimidation from various groups. Pastor Suleimanov's life had been threatened on several previous occasions.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15895397&PageNum=0MAKHACHKALA, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Four people have been killed and three more... more
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This film is a short insight in the happenings on 28th December 2010 in Bolton Market, karachi, Pakistan where after an blast during a procession, 100's of shops were burned down by the people for the people in an organized planned manner. Not only our culture and heritage but 1000's of lives went into flames. What we have become is the product of our own doings and this is what this film emphasizes on.
A Catalyst By Fate, A Believer By Choice http;//www.ozairrao.comThis film is a short insight in the happenings on 28th December 2010 in Bolton Market,... more
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An Abington man is being charged with creating bombs at his former address in Abington after police had been told the man was blowing up snow banks to avoid shoveling the snow.
Abington Police Chief David Majenski said Leo J. Powers, 23, with a last known address of 45 Margaret Road, Abington, is being charged with threats to commit a crime and possession of incendiary devices.
After serving Powers with an emergency restraining order at a rooming house he was staying in on Washington Street in Abington, police learned Powers had a box of ammunition and a box with “some sort of powder” in it at his former address, according to Majenski.
According to Majenski, police were told Powers had devised a way to use the materials to blow up snow banks instead of shoveling the snow and had been doing it for some time.
Majenski said when police and fire officials arrived at the house, the discovered a container filled with “military-grade ammunition and other stuff, including powders of some sort.”
The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was called in and the power was sent to a lab for testing.
“The results came back Saturday morning that the powder was indeed an explosive material,” Majenski said.
Powers was not arrested that night because police were not sure that the powder was explosive. They needed to get it tested first. But Majenski said Powers will soon be summonsed to court on the charges filed by the police department.
Powers, who has a firearms license, was told he needed to surrender all his weapons. He handed over a pistol and a shotgun to police, according to Majenski.
“And I have revoked his license to carry,” Majenski said. “Meanwhile, we’re investigating where he got all the weapons we confiscated and the powder. He said he got them at gun shows in Springfield but we are looking into that.”An Abington man is being charged with creating bombs at his former address in Abington... more
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(CBS/AP) Federal agents are investigating race as a possible motive behind an abandoned backpack containing a functional bomb after it was left along the downtown route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
"The confluence of the holiday, the march and the device is inescapable, but we are not at the point where we can draw any particular motive," said Frank Harrill, special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office.
The suspicious backpack was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start Monday, Harrill said. They saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement, who disabled it without incident, he said.
The discovery before the parade for the slain civil rights leader raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to the white supremacist Aryan Nations.
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner said the attempted bombing was unacceptable.
"I was struck that on a day when we celebrate Dr. King, a champion of non-violence, we were faced with a significant violent threat," Verner said. "This is unacceptable in our community, or any community."
The Spokane region and adjacent northern Idaho have had numerous incidents of anti-government and white supremacist activity during the past three decades.
The most visible was by the Aryan Nations, whose leader Richard Butler gathered racists and anti-Semites at his compound for two decades. Butler was bankrupted and lost the compound in a civil lawsuit in 2000 and died in 2004.
In December, a man in Hayden, Idaho, built a snowman on his front lawn shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a noose. The man knocked the pointy-headed snowman down after getting a visit from sheriff's deputies.
Harrill decried the planting of the bomb as an act of domestic terrorism that was clearly designed to advance a political or social agenda.
"The potential for injury and death were clearly present," he said of the bomb.
CBS News security correspondent Bob Orr reports the device appeared to be fairly sophisticated; a pipe bomb with additional metal to act as shrapnel, and a remote detonation device.
The bomb was planted, reports Orr, to send the brunt of the blast directly toward those participating in the parade.
The FBI received no warnings in advance and did not have a suspect, Harrill said. No one has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb.
The federal agency has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.(CBS/AP) Federal agents are investigating race as a possible motive behind an... more
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Terry Allen Lester of Waseca, Minn. was arrested for allegedly giving his ex-girlfriend a sex toy for a Christmas present. Not just any sex toy, though! This one was rigged with a bomb
In a nutshell, Lester's alleged plan was to trick his ex into opening a box labeled "Christmas presents" that he'd left behind when he was evicted from their apartment. Inside the box was a sex toy that had "been modified with gun powder and buck shot, which were connected to a trigger inside the battery port." Lester apparently believed that he could pull some kind of "trigger" and by doing so "blow them up." Huh.
Lester apparently had, in the words of WCCO, two other women "he had previously been involved with where the relationship ended poorly," and material for two other dildo-bombs. But what points his murder-revenge plot wins for originality, it loses for total incompetence. For one thing, his incendiary device was "missing a key starting element." For another thing, no ex-girlfriend in her right mind would accept a sex toy as a Christmas gift. (Also, Lester seems to have told a lot of people about his plan, which is understandable, given how visionary it was, but not a good idea if he wanted to get away with it.)
http://gizmodo.com/5727436/sex-toy-rigged-with-bomb-is-worlds-worst-christmas-presentTerry Allen Lester of Waseca, Minn. was arrested for allegedly giving his... more
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Over the years we've come to know that when you drop a Mentos into a bottle of Diet Cola you get an eruption, geyser, explosion. How ever you want to put it. The result of those two elements mixed together is amazing.
Its a pretty good experiment but it happens all too fast. As soon as you dump the mentos inside the bottle of diet cola the effects begin to happen, sometimes it doesn't give you enough time to get away to avoid getting soda on your clothes.
What if I told you there's another way besides Ice to stall the effect from happening? Well its possible and you won't have to wait for the mentos to freeze either.
In order to keep the diet coke from erupting as soon as you dump the mentos inside, you'll need to do something to the mentos first.
The following items are needed for this experiment, The price tag is pretty good as you can get all these items for a total of $ 2.50 at your local dollar store.
* Mentos- 1
* Diet Cola-1
* Pack of Mints Strips - about 6
Take out some mint strips and start covering the mentos with them. It helps if you lick them first that way they stick better, the point to this is to to protect the mentos from having contact with with the soda.
The mint strips are pretty thin, they can only offer certain protection. After you drop the mint strip covered mentos into the bottle of diet coke nothing will happen, but over the time span of 2 to 3 minutes the soda will have eaten away the thin mint strips.
The mentos exposure is practically inevitable, but you can certainly prolong it with this method, which is why its called a "DIet Coke and Mentos Time Bomb
To learn how to use this new info as a prank- just follow this link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJgvWU2sRvYOver the years we've come to know that when you drop a Mentos into a bottle of... more
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(Reuters) - Two blasts rocked the centre of Stockholm on Saturday in a possible attack inspired by Sweden's presence in Afghanistan, killing the bomber and wounding two other people, police and media said.
Swedish news agency TT said that 10 minutes before the first blast, when a car exploded near a busy shopping street, it received an email with threats over the Swedish presence in Afghanistan and over a years-old case of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad by a Swedish artist. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the car exploded at peak shopping hours at 5 p.m. (4 p.m. British time). About 10 to 15 minutes later another explosion took place on a street 300 metres (984 ft) away. A man was found dead near the second explosion and two people with minor injuries were also found nearby. Asked if the man blew himself up in some way, Lindgren said: "It is possible." Investigations were continuing to see if the two incidents were linked, he said. A bag found near the dead man had also been examined, but no more explosives were found in it, he said. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BA2HC20101212(Reuters) - Two blasts rocked the centre of Stockholm on Saturday in a possible attack... more
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Get youtube ready because the authorities decided the only safe way to de-bomb the bomb house is by setting it on fire, but in a safe and controlled way.
The article describes the house contained crates of grenades, a number of home made shrapnel bombs, and a mass of explosive powder and chemical kept in jars. Experts removed and destroyed 9 pounds of explosives before deciding it was too dangerous to continue.
"San Marcos Fire Chief Todd Newman acknowledges it is no small feat: Authorities have never dealt with destroying such a large quantity of dangerous material in the middle of a populated area, bordered by a busy eight-lane freeway. [...] Some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous material from across the country and at least eight national laboratories are working on the preparations. "-Independent
It is said the burning will take place on Wednesday, though only if weather conditions are right, since smoke could cause a health hazard due to the amount of chemicals. Local hospitals are on stand by.
"Authorities also found a grenade mold, a bag with pieces of metal, a jar with ball bearings, three wireless doorbells with remotes, molds of human faces, handguns and a blue Escondido police shirt, among other items, according to court records. [...]
Little is known about Jakubec, a 54-year-old unemployed software consultant. His lawyer could not be reached for comment. His estranged wife has told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he became increasingly unstable since losing his job several years ago."-IndependentGet youtube ready because the authorities decided the only safe way to de-bomb the... more
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Making bombs is illegal, but if you like making things explode... try this... the total cost of the materials is just 50 cents and can be purchased at your local dollars store.
The amount of time and takes to make this varies but its usually 10 to 15 minutes. Remember this is a Harmless bomb but it is very loud so careful where you set it off.
*Disclaimer: this is not a real bomb therefore should not be considered a weapon.Making bombs is illegal, but if you like making things explode... try this... the... more
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