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United States "Confident" Master Al-Qaeda Bombmaker Killed: Official
A master Al-Qaeda bomb maker who hid out for years in Yemen while developing hard-to-detect explosives is believed to have been killed last year, a US official told AFP on Tuesday.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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Israeli Government Spies Hacked ISIS To Find Plans Of Laptop Bomb
Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of ISIS bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday.
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Manchester Bombing Probe Expands With Arrests Of Suspects On 2 Continents
The investigation into a suicide blast that killed at least 22 people at a pop concert dramatically widened Wednesday, with security services on two continents rounding up suspects amid fears that the bombmaker who devised the bolt-spewing source of the carnage remains at large.
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Manchester Bombing Probe Expands With Arrests Of Suspects On Two Continents
The investigation into a suicide blast that killed at least 22 people at a pop concert dramatically widened Wednesday, with security services on two continents rounding up suspects amid fears that the bombmaker who devised the bolt-spewing source of the carnage remains at large.
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Bomb Classes And Gun Counts: Trauma Of Mosul Children Under ISIS
Schools in the east of the Iraqi city of Mosul are seeking to return to a semblance of normality after two years under ISIS rule when they were either shuttered or forced to teach a martial curriculum that included lessons in bombmaking.
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He's The Son Of Osama Bin Laden's Bombmaker. Then ISIS Wanted Him As One Of Its Own.
He was still a teenager when he wandered into one of the buildings at the dusty hilltop complex, looking for the cages where rabbits were kept. Inside, he found a crudely equipped laboratory, with test tubes, protective masks and rows of black jars.
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Turkey Says Four 'Bombmakers' Killed In Blast In Kurdish Majority Southeast
A powerful blast that shook an area near the Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Thursday killed four "bombmakers" and injured at least 10 other people, the interior ministry said.
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ISIS Attacks Bring Brussels To Standstill; Police Hunt For Suspect
The wanted man accompanied two of the bombers to the airport, along with luggage heaving with explosives. Authorities were also hunting a suspected Belgian bombmaker who trained in Syria with the Islamic State.
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Killed in Syria, The French Football Fan Turned Bombmaker
From football matches to international jihad, the 25-year-old Frenchman David Drugeon converted as a teen to Islam and drifted toward ever more radical groups, up until his death in July in a coalition air strike in Syria.
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US Blacklists 2 Greek 'Terrorists' in Row Over New Law
The United States blacklisted two Greek extremists Tuesday amid anger over a new law which could see a bombmaker from a radical group accused of killing Americans released early from prison.
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China Police Seize 1.8 Tonnes of Bomb Material in Xinjiang: Sources
Police in China's restive Xinjiang seized 1.8 tonnes of bombmaking material and detained five people, authorities said on Tuesday, following a string of deadly attacks blamed on militants from the Muslim Uighur homeland.
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Shoe bomb threat on US airlines linked to al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate
The latest warning to airlines about shoe-bomb threats is a product of heightened US concern about al-Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, whose leaders include a technically-savvy bombmaker, US security sources said on Thursday.
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Bombmaker Abdul Karim Tunda slapped on Delhi court premises
Master bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda was slapped, reportedly by a Hindu activist, at a Delhi court before being produced for a hearing on his custody.
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United States "Confident" Master Al-Qaeda Bombmaker Killed: Official
A master Al-Qaeda bomb maker who hid out for years in Yemen while developing hard-to-detect explosives is believed to have been killed last year, a US official told AFP on Tuesday.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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Israeli Government Spies Hacked ISIS To Find Plans Of Laptop Bomb
Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of ISIS bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday.
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Manchester Bombing Probe Expands With Arrests Of Suspects On 2 Continents
The investigation into a suicide blast that killed at least 22 people at a pop concert dramatically widened Wednesday, with security services on two continents rounding up suspects amid fears that the bombmaker who devised the bolt-spewing source of the carnage remains at large.
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Manchester Bombing Probe Expands With Arrests Of Suspects On Two Continents
The investigation into a suicide blast that killed at least 22 people at a pop concert dramatically widened Wednesday, with security services on two continents rounding up suspects amid fears that the bombmaker who devised the bolt-spewing source of the carnage remains at large.
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Bomb Classes And Gun Counts: Trauma Of Mosul Children Under ISIS
Schools in the east of the Iraqi city of Mosul are seeking to return to a semblance of normality after two years under ISIS rule when they were either shuttered or forced to teach a martial curriculum that included lessons in bombmaking.
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He's The Son Of Osama Bin Laden's Bombmaker. Then ISIS Wanted Him As One Of Its Own.
He was still a teenager when he wandered into one of the buildings at the dusty hilltop complex, looking for the cages where rabbits were kept. Inside, he found a crudely equipped laboratory, with test tubes, protective masks and rows of black jars.
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Turkey Says Four 'Bombmakers' Killed In Blast In Kurdish Majority Southeast
A powerful blast that shook an area near the Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Thursday killed four "bombmakers" and injured at least 10 other people, the interior ministry said.
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ISIS Attacks Bring Brussels To Standstill; Police Hunt For Suspect
The wanted man accompanied two of the bombers to the airport, along with luggage heaving with explosives. Authorities were also hunting a suspected Belgian bombmaker who trained in Syria with the Islamic State.
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Killed in Syria, The French Football Fan Turned Bombmaker
From football matches to international jihad, the 25-year-old Frenchman David Drugeon converted as a teen to Islam and drifted toward ever more radical groups, up until his death in July in a coalition air strike in Syria.
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US Blacklists 2 Greek 'Terrorists' in Row Over New Law
The United States blacklisted two Greek extremists Tuesday amid anger over a new law which could see a bombmaker from a radical group accused of killing Americans released early from prison.
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China Police Seize 1.8 Tonnes of Bomb Material in Xinjiang: Sources
Police in China's restive Xinjiang seized 1.8 tonnes of bombmaking material and detained five people, authorities said on Tuesday, following a string of deadly attacks blamed on militants from the Muslim Uighur homeland.
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Shoe bomb threat on US airlines linked to al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate
The latest warning to airlines about shoe-bomb threats is a product of heightened US concern about al-Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, whose leaders include a technically-savvy bombmaker, US security sources said on Thursday.
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Bombmaker Abdul Karim Tunda slapped on Delhi court premises
Master bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda was slapped, reportedly by a Hindu activist, at a Delhi court before being produced for a hearing on his custody.
