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West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes says that his deputies made a grizzly discovery late Sunday at a local church. Cazes says that his deputies and the State Police Hazardous Material Unit were called out to the scene of a bomb threat at Erwinville Baptist Church.
Cazes says that when they arrived, they found an Improvised Explosive Device inside a suitcase left at the front door of the church. You may have heard of IEDs in reports from the War in Iraq where they are common, but not in the small community of Erwinville. State Police brought in their bomb robot, which picked up the device and dropped it into a pit. The device was covered with sandbags and detonated.
Bomb experts are looking for more explosives that might be in the area of the church. Cazes tells 9News that the FBI has been called in to work the case. They will continue to investigate Monday.
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Bombs found hidden in toys (India)
January 01, 2007
Two suspected Islamic militants had been arrested with explosives hidden inside toys which they planned to blow up at a busy market in New Delhi, Indian police said today.
Samimullah and Ali Mohammad, both from Indian Kashmir, were arrested at a New Delhi railway station on suspicion of belonging to pro-Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior police official Karnal Singh said.
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Jordan Baathists pledge loyalty to Saddam deputy
Dec. 31, 2006
A previously unknown group of Iraqi Baathists pledged allegiance to Saddam Hussein's fugitive deputy Izzat Ibrahim and named him the "legitimate president of Iraq," a statement issued by the group said Sunday.
SNIP:Ibrahim, Saddam's former deputy and now a fugitive with a US$10 million (€7.59 million) bounty on his head, has not been seen since the fall of Saddam's regime in April 2003. He is believed to be leading Baathists participating in the insurgency that has left thousands of US and allied troops dead.
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