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24 Years Before Delhi Blast, A Shoe Bomber Almost Blew Up An American Flight
In 2001, al-QThe probe into the November 10 Delhi blast hinted that a shoe bomb was used inside the car, which exploded near the Red Fort. aeda terrorist Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight using TATP-packed footwear.
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25 Years Later, Deadly Omagh Bombing Still Haunts Nothern Ireland
On a bright Saturday in August almost 25 years ago, Kevin Skelton was rejoining his family shopping for new school shoes in Omagh's town centre when a massive bomb went off.
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Pics: Empty Seats, Discarded Shoes Remain After Pakistan Suicide Bombing
Blood-stained chairs, scattered ball bearings and shoes shed by the dead, wounded and panicked bore testimony Monday to the carnage caused by a suicide bombing at a Pakistan political event.
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At Osama bin Laden's son-in-law's trial, British shoe-bomber testifies
A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the September 11 attacks but didn't detonate them because he was saving the bomb for an attack over America.
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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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US warns of airline shoe-bomb threat
US authorities issued a warning on Wednesday to airlines flying to the United States to watch out for militants who may have hidden bombs in their shoes, US government sources said.
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Trinamool Congress leaders spark controversies, state election commission seeks report
A day after a Trinamool Congress district president allegedly asked partymen to attack police with bombs and burn houses of independent candidates, a party MP on Thursday asked TMC activists to "beat up CPI(M) workers with shoes".
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Pakistan MP survives shoe bomb attack: Official
A Pakistan MP escaped an assassination attempt on Friday when a bomb planted in his shoe exploded as he put them on outside a mosque after prayers, officials said.
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What is PETN; why is it deadly?
Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.
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What if there was a bomb in Rahul's shoe: Minister
A month after Minister of State for Home Ramesh Bagwe created a controversy by holding the shoes Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had taken off near an Ambedkar statue, the minister has come up with an explanation. He says he was afraid terrorists could plant a bomb in Gandhi's shoes if they were left unattended.
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24 Years Before Delhi Blast, A Shoe Bomber Almost Blew Up An American Flight
In 2001, al-QThe probe into the November 10 Delhi blast hinted that a shoe bomb was used inside the car, which exploded near the Red Fort. aeda terrorist Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight using TATP-packed footwear.
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25 Years Later, Deadly Omagh Bombing Still Haunts Nothern Ireland
On a bright Saturday in August almost 25 years ago, Kevin Skelton was rejoining his family shopping for new school shoes in Omagh's town centre when a massive bomb went off.
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Pics: Empty Seats, Discarded Shoes Remain After Pakistan Suicide Bombing
Blood-stained chairs, scattered ball bearings and shoes shed by the dead, wounded and panicked bore testimony Monday to the carnage caused by a suicide bombing at a Pakistan political event.
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At Osama bin Laden's son-in-law's trial, British shoe-bomber testifies
A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the September 11 attacks but didn't detonate them because he was saving the bomb for an attack over America.
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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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US warns of airline shoe-bomb threat
US authorities issued a warning on Wednesday to airlines flying to the United States to watch out for militants who may have hidden bombs in their shoes, US government sources said.
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Trinamool Congress leaders spark controversies, state election commission seeks report
A day after a Trinamool Congress district president allegedly asked partymen to attack police with bombs and burn houses of independent candidates, a party MP on Thursday asked TMC activists to "beat up CPI(M) workers with shoes".
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Pakistan MP survives shoe bomb attack: Official
A Pakistan MP escaped an assassination attempt on Friday when a bomb planted in his shoe exploded as he put them on outside a mosque after prayers, officials said.
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What is PETN; why is it deadly?
Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.
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What if there was a bomb in Rahul's shoe: Minister
A month after Minister of State for Home Ramesh Bagwe created a controversy by holding the shoes Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had taken off near an Ambedkar statue, the minister has come up with an explanation. He says he was afraid terrorists could plant a bomb in Gandhi's shoes if they were left unattended.
