Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight landed.
Just past noon on Sept. 16, 1920, anarchists set off a bomb on Wall Street, killing 38 people.
According to authorities, he intended to set off a bomb in a Chinese restaurant popular with Fort Hood soldiers and their families.
In fact nobody knows who set off the bomb that killed seven people in a coffee house close to Mr Kasro's shop.
Martinez was arrested on December 8, 2010, after he tried to set off a bomb at the armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland.
They said a car dropped off the man who was standing at a bus stop near the station entrance when he set off his bomb.
In Jerusalem, it is believed a call to a cell phone in a rucksack set off a bomb at Hebrew University in 2002, killing seven.
All of this was percolating in the back of my mind until a week ago, when the Kurdish separatist PKK set off a bomb in Istanbul.
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Coletti told CNN that a female student overheard the boys talking about the alleged plot to set off a bomb at McKinley's graduation ceremony on June 28.
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In October 2002, such fears suddenly bulked much larger, when Islamist terrorists, linked to al-Qaeda, set off a bomb in Bali that killed more than 200 people.
The added security measures were implemented after 23-year-old Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab tried to set off a bomb aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas.
The added security measures were implemented after Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, 23, allegedly tried to set off a bomb aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.
The Pakistani Taliban set off a bomb at a political rally held by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in the northwest Kurram tribal region on Monday, killing 25 people and wounding 70, said government official Javed Khan.
Berlin (CNN) -- It happens more often than you might think: Streets cordoned off and bomb disposal experts called in to deal with unexploded bombs that were dropped on Germany nearly 70 years ago.
He is accused of setting off a bomb in central Oslo that killed eight people, then fatally shooting 69 people at a youth camp run by the ruling Labour Party on nearby Utoya Island.
But the longer you put it off, the fewer ticks are left before the bomb goes off.
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With the exception of America, none of the current nuclear possessors has let a bomb off in anger.
Stephen Menary also had his left hand blown off by a bomb packed inside a torch at the TA centre in White City.
The incident happened nearly 18 years ago to the day after Timothy McVeigh set off a devastating bomb outside a government building there, killing 168 people.
Palestinian security officials said the two were intending to set off a roadside bomb as a procession of Jewish settlers passed by later in the day.
The attackers shot their way onto the grounds of the Pearl Continental Hotel, which is often frequented by foreigners and diplomats, and set off a vehicle bomb on Tuesday.
The security services said the bomb that went off at Lubyanka station had an equivalent force of up to 4kg of TNT, while the bomb at Park Kultury was equivalent to 1.5-2kg of TNT.
Saying a nuclear bomb went off in my family would not begin to describe what happened.
"The first thing I remember was over on the side where the bomb went off, " McMillin said.
The bomb went off as Sunni worshippers were leaving Friday prayers at the Omar Bin Abdul-Aziz mosque.
About 15 minutes later, he was walking back to his friends when the first bomb went off.
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