• Originally designed to speed nuclear bombs into Cold War Russia, the B-1 was retooled to become a long-range bomber able to carry more conventional bombs, allowing it to hit more targets over a wider area.

    CNN: B-1 bomber burns after landing in Qatar

  • But a lawyer for the US authorities, James Lewis QC, told the court there was evidence that Mr al-Fawwaz had drafted the fatwa, and that faxes were found on him claiming responsibility for the embassy bombings "two-and-a-half hours before the bombs went off".

    BBC: Terrorist suspect Abu Hamza

  • The search comes amid US media reports that investigators are analysing female DNA found on a piece of the pressure-cooker bombs used in the attacks.

    BBC: Tsarnaev widow's family home searched by FBI

  • But the Air Force then calculated that a payload of thirty-two smart bombs, each weighing two thousand pounds, would be required to penetrate thirty feet below ground, insuring that any bunkers would collapse.

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  • It carries a host of satellite and laser-guided bombs and is able to remain over targets for long periods of time to assist in close-air support for troops on the ground.

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  • In 2011, 45, 000 residents were evacuated from the city of Koblenz, situated on the Rhine and Moselle rivers, as bomb squads dealt with two bombs and a military fog-producing device that were dropped by American and British warplanes in the last years of the war.

    CNN: Experts defuse unexploded WWII bomb in central Berlin

  • Is it a sailboat, a puppy, two guys with pressure-cooker bombs or just an unintelligible mess of dots?

    CNN: Why FBI and CIA didn't connect the dots

  • In addition, about 900 Afghan National Army soldiers were killed by roadside bombs - averaging three soldiers a day, according to General Zahir Azimi, spokesman for the defence ministry.

    BBC: Roadside bombs: 'The deadliest weapon' in Afghan war

  • Authorities have said they suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his late brother, Tamerlan, killed Collier in Cambridge and later were involved in a chase -- during which they allegedly threw bombs out of their windows -- and shootout that ended in nearby Watertown.

    CNN: Latest developments in the Boston bombing investigation

  • Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.

    ECONOMIST: Why the bombs are falling on Iraq

  • Investigators warned police officers to be on the lookout for a "darker-skinned or black male" with a possible foreign accent in connection with the Marathon bombs, according to a law enforcement advisory obtained by CNN.

    CNN: FBI to take lead in investigating Boston Marathon bombings

  • Sprinkle a healthy dose of "mans" and f-bombs into that quote and it could have been uttered by The Dude himself.

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  • They were looking for a culprit of sorts: two weeks earlier car-bombs had exploded outside their embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

    ECONOMIST: A bit of collateral damage

  • Those Web-driven "money bombs" fueled a growing sense among candidates and consultants that the Internet is gaining importance as a campaigning tool and a political battleground.

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  • The Riddler would have tattoos on his body of symbols and information about his bombs etc (and perhaps a question-mark tattoo around one eye?), all in cyphers and code that nobody but the Riddler can ever understand.

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  • He also said he had been told the bombs were detonated with a "garage door opener-type of device".

    BBC: CIA 'tracked Boston bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev'

  • An FBI affidavit said the bombs contained "low-grade explosives" and a "large pyrotechnic" had been found at the younger brother's college dorm room in Massachusetts.

    WSJ: Boston Bombing Suspects Roused by Jihadist Thought

  • Even when the fighting stopped, simply going to school or gathering firewood for cooking was a potentially life-threatening activity in many areas: landmines and unexploded bombs caused over 340 casualties in the first six months after the fighting ended, and all in an area half the size of Wales.

    ECONOMIST: Cleaning up the mess

  • The news out of Tunisia in the past week has been depressingly familiar for the Middle East: roadside bombs badly wounding soldiers and police as they comb a cave-filled mountainous region for al-Qaida linked militants.

    NPR: Jihadi Peril Makes Its Way To Tunisia

  • The result was a scramble for talent approaching the infamous bicycle messenger shortage once created by Dot-Bombs UrbanFetch and Kozmo.

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  • Pinned down by the onslaught, King said the troops called in "close air support" from a B-52 bomber on regular patrol over Afghanistan, which dropped seven large bombs, ending the confrontation.

    CNN: B-52 backs U.S. forces in Afghanistan

  • You can have it all as a super human space marine - jetpacks, armor, hammers, swords, guns, bombs - in melee, ranged and aerial combat modes.

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  • The Scranton area contains several sizable defense plants making items like high-tech helmets and smart bombs, and the biggest local employer is a nearby Army depot that repairs military electronics.

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  • Just before sunset, when Muslims break their daily Ramadan fast, three roadside bombs exploded within a few minutes of each other at the crowded al-Tameem market in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad's southern outskirts, police officials in the capital said.

    CNN: Iraq bombs kill 25 people as Muslims celebrate Ramadan

  • In April last year, Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in a UK hospital from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in the Nahr-e Saraj area.

    BBC: Royal Marine and British soldier killed in Afghanistan

  • It was AQAP that tried to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 using a Nigerian recruit who had secreted a hard-to-detect bomb in his underwear, and it was AQAP that smuggled bombs in printer cartridges onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. in October 2010.

    CNN: And now, only one senior al Qaeda leader left

  • Louis is a city that works for Boeing, making fighter planes and smart bombs, and for Anheuser-Busch, making beer.

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  • In a statement, South Sudan Information Minister Banaba Marial Benjamin said that three bombs had struck a market in Bentiu, killing two civilians, including a 12-year-old boy.

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  • On March 19, 2003, U.S. missiles and bunker-busting bombs dropped by air struck targets inside Iraq, paving the way for a ground invasion by U.S.-led forces the next day that eventually overthrew President Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9.

    WSJ: Wave of Deadly Attacks Hits Baghdad

  • On Tuesday, a Zanu-PF official was injured when his house in north-eastern Zimbabwe was attacked with petrol bombs.

    BBC: Zimbabwe votes on constitution plan

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