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To: Nachum

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‘A pressure cooker bomb is an improvised explosive device (IED) made by placing explosives, such as TNT, into a pressure cooker and attaching a blasting cap at the top of the cooker.[1]

Pressure cooker bombs are relatively easy to make, as only readily available materials are needed. The bomb can be ignited using simple electronic devices such as digital watches, garage door openers, cell phones or pagers.[1] The power of the explosion depends on the size of the pressure cooker and the amount of explosives.[2]

Pressure cooker bombs have been widely used in terror and IED attacks in Afganistan, India and Pakistan. In recent years, as of 2013, there have been several plots involving pressure cooker bombs in France and the United States.[3][4] In 2004, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an alert regarding pressure cooker bombs, saying that they were “a technique commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps”.[2]

Instructions for making pressure cooker bombs were published in the al-Qaeda-linked Inspire magazine in 2011.[5]

Pressure cooker bombs were reportedly used in the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon.[6]”


18 posted on 04/16/2013 4:33:20 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: bert

If Pressure Cookers aren’t banned, it’ll be blood on 0’s hands. 0 did not do everything he can.

Ugh.


19 posted on 04/16/2013 4:35:52 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Elections have consequences - NOW LOOK what we have to deal with...)
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