But the LDP tries to wrap its gift nicely and deliver it without knowing if the box is empty or if there is a bomb inside.
The assumption at this point is that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was behind the bomb plot, and there is a widespread belief that the bombs were meant to explode in the planes transporting them, rather than at the Chicago synagogues to which the packages were being sent.
You know, we hear - we get the reports of, you know, car bomb here, car bomb there, but for there to be their how constant it is.
The significance of these actual trends is obvious: Not only is there no Palestinian demographic time bomb necessitating the immediate handover of Judea and Samaria to Palestinian terrorists.
Likewise in Libya, even as US-led NATO forces continue to bomb Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists, there is a growing recognition that the NATO-supported rebels are not exactly the French Resistance.
And the second one - and it's not in there - is there's a time-bomb in the tax code.
He claimed that just because Iran is enriching uranium, there is no reason to believe that the mullahs are interested in building a bomb.
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"We saw at the weekend - Remembrance weekend - near Enniskillen a large bomb being found and we are continually reminded that there is a security threat, " he said.
But the bomb, symbol of Koreans defying their enemies and the whole world, is there for eternity.
And so, for example, in Iraq, I was with a bomb squad up in Taji, which is just north of Baghdad, and there were some downtime in between missions.
"There's no one particular person or group responsible for all the actions, but (Ms Kennedy) is right - there's no place for the pipe bomb in politics, " said the senior loyalist.
There have now been six bomb blasts in Bombay, which is also known as Mumbai, in as many months and the reaction is shock, the BBC's Frances Harrison reports from the city.
The U.S. is demanding an end to nuclear research programs there that might lead to a bomb.
Yet the West should not give up the effort: there is a (slim) possibility that, as the prospect of an Iranian bomb and an Israeli strike draw near, Russia and China might shift their positions.
Then there is the Manhattan Project, the name given to America's development of the atomic bomb during the second world war.
The IISS also suggests Iraq has the knowhow and the wherewithal to make a nuclear bomb in a matter of months but only if it succeeds in obtaining fissile material, and there is no evidence it has.
While there is still debate about the issue, many historians believe the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan shortened the war and saved thousands of American lives that would have been lost in a land invasion of Japan.
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Seemingly contradicting Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed that there is no reason to worry about all that uranium because Iran won't have a bomb for some time, given that the uranium it possesses is not sufficiently enriched to make a weapon.
Indeed, there is value in their sticking together even if the North has no intention of giving up its bomb.
There is another, less sanguine theory, that Iran will persist in its drive to achieve a bomb or at least a break-out capacity to get one quickly if it so desired.
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