Even a time bomb needs some action to make it run.

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In 1995, a bomb attack on a U.S.-run military center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed seven people, five of them Americans.

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The better way, say the officers who run the COIN academy, is to alert patrols to the presence of the bomb.

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