Bombs 'not meant to explode'
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Devices used in an alleged plot to attack London's transport system were only meant to go "pop", jurors hear.
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Police found two car bombs packed with gasoline, propane and nails in London's teeming theater district on Friday, averting attacks that echoed an earlier al Qaeda plot and could have killed or maimed scores of people.
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New York police took unspecified precautions on Friday after explosives experts in London defused a car bomb packed with gasoline, gas and nails, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
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Authorities thwarted a bombing, possibly timed to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as police found and defused more than 600 pounds of explosives Tuesday in a minibus parked near an Ankara market.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 -- Two bombs ripped through a pair of cities north of Baghdad on Tuesday, causing some of the worst carnage in the country in recent weeks and revealing that, despite the relative calm that has taken hold, insurgent groups remain capable of carrying out devastating attacks.
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A small explosion outside the British Embassy in Santiago, Chile caused minor damage but no casualties, the Foreign Office said Monday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Bombs exploded at three banks in the Argentine capital yesterday, including two branches of US giant Citibank, killing one security guard and injuring a bomb squad officer, officials said. No group claimed responsibility for the bombs, none of which was big enough to cause major damage to the buildings. ''The government is asking people not to touch ...
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Police found and defused more than 1,300 pounds of explosives packed into a minibus parked near a marketplace on Tuesday, thwarting what one official described as "a possible disaster."
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French President Jacques Chirac has said it would not be very dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, but later retracted the remark, according to an interview with two U.S. newspapers and a French magazine published on Thursday.
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Government buildings are to be provided with defences to stop them being rammed by cars or trucks packed with explosives.
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Some of the 380 tons of munitions missing from a weapons facility outside Baghdad could be used to trigger a nuclear bomb. BY COLUM LYNCH AND BRADLEY GRAHAM.
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A small parcel bomb has exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris, slightly injuring 10 people and shattering windows, but officials say they have no clues to the motive.
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The British Army's head tells the BBC the attacks which killed dozens in Iraq will not derail January's elections.
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Police found two car bombs packed with gasoline, propane and nails in London's teeming theatre district on Friday, averting attacks that echoed an earlier al Qaeda plot that could have killed hundreds.
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MADRID Compared with the ruinous attacks that struck Spain in March, the bombings over the past 14 days in the northern provinces might be expected to attract little notice: Seven weak explosives, wrapped in ...
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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LONDON: There is little doubt that terrorists will attempt to carry out an attack in Britain, a senior government minister said yesterday, speaking in the wake of Russia's school siege that ended in a ...