"It was not a bomb explosion, " one official told AFP news agency.
Iran told the agency that no nuclear material had been introduced into the plant, and enrichment levels would only be high enough to make nuclear fuel, not a bomb.
Police do not think a car bomb was involved, although nearby cars were burned.
It should recognize that convincing Iran not to build a bomb might be easier by engaging it.
However, police do not believe a blast bomb attack on a house on the Antrim Road in the town is linked to the other incidents.
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If Iran wants to show the world that it is not seeking a nuclear bomb, it will have to give a lot more ground yet.
The Iranians had signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty in which they had agreed that they would not try to develop a bomb.
Lyman acknowledges that the quantity was not enough to make a bomb.
The chief of staff, Lt-Gen Moshe Yaalon, disclosed in a recent interview that the army, which had been targeting Mr Shehada for months, had eventually decided to ease its own restrictions so that his wife's presence alongside him would no longer constitute a reason not to bomb him.
The cause is not known but it is not thought to have been a bomb.
But the agents did not identify the noise as a bomb, nor treat the incident as important.
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Raytheon does not have a contract for the bomb and is building it entirely with its own money.
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Nobody is really suggesting that the Americans would not alert the UK to a bomb on a train.
UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, that it was not trying to build a nuclear bomb.
The reason that Britain's public finances do not face a pensions time-bomb is that, since the early 1980s, the Tories have been reducing the role of the state in pension provision and increasing that of the private sector.
Under the proposal, Iran would get the fuel it needs for its research reactor in Tehran, but this would not be sufficiently enriched to make a bomb.
Time reporter Bobby Ghosh told the BBC that a videotape, given to the magazine by an Iraqi human rights group, had shown the civilians "could not have been killed by a roadside bomb".
The formula generally relieves suppliers of some, but not all, of the risk if the new Wrangler is a sales bomb, and allows them to share some, but not all, of the windfall if the vehicle is a hit.
Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.
In the past we talked about "dual use" military-civilian technologies, but truth be told, not much of what's in a bomb migrates back to a BMW. However, the money flowing into military and homeland infra-structure security will leverage revolutionary technologies and materials of the new digital age.
The storm, a severe depression known as a "bomb", had not been forecast, said Mr Goss.
Pakistan is believed to have a nuclear bomb, but has not exploded one.
Easyjet confirmed a man was denied boarding due to a comment made about a bomb but he "had not been banned for life".
Earlier this week, media organisations, including the BBC, had agreed to a police request not to broadcast details of the bomb incidents while officers carried out inquires.
If Saddam had not been stopped, Iraq could have produced a nuclear bomb by 1993, years earlier than most worse-case assessments that had been made before the war.
And the second one - and it's not in there - is there's a time-bomb in the tax code.
But the Justice Department did not include accusations that Padilla plotted to detonate a "dirty bomb" or to blow up apartment buildings, although government officials had leveled those allegations publicly before Padilla was charged.
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