MOSCOW - Police in southeast Moscow have discovered around 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives stashed in a deserted building, a police spokesman said on Saturday. The tetryl, a solid yellow explosive compound used to make detonators, was found in a deserted outhouse near a gardening club in the capital's Shchyolkovsky District.
Police found "40 metal pipe off-cuts that were previously part of an elongated mine clearing charge, with about 100 kilograms of tetryl inside," the spokesman said. Police believe the tetryl was put there by a local resident previously arrested for possession of explosives.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080119/97343277.html
Pakistani police say avert bomb, cyanide disaster
Sat Jan 19, 2008
KARACHI - Pakistani police said on Saturday they had averted a disaster with the arrest of five militants planning to attack Shi'ite Muslim processions with cyanide and suicide bombs.
The arrests late on Friday in the southern city of Karachi came as minority Shi'ite Muslims across Pakistan gathered for religious commemorations that have in recent years drawn attacks from Sunni Muslim militants. "Their arrest has averted a big disaster ... but the threat of suicide attacks is still there," provincial police chief Azhar Ali Farooqi told a news conference.
The five militants, one of whom was preparing to become a suicide bomber, belonged to different Sunni Muslim militant groups and were picked up in raids in different parts of the city, Farooqi said. "They planned to carry out suicide and grenade attacks on processions," he said.
Police seized 6 kg (13.2 lb) of explosives for use in suicide jackets, 2 kg (4.4 lb) ball bearings, one kg (2.2 lb) of nails, detonators, three hand grenades and two pistols. Police also seized 500 grams (17 oz) of cyanide that Farooqi said was going to be used to poison drinks handed out to people taking part in the Shi'ite processions.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSISL212765
SAN'A, Yemen - Suspected al-Qaida militants opened fire on a convoy of tourists in a remote desert mountain valley Friday, killing two Belgian women and their Yemeni driver. It was the second recent militant attack on foreign tourists in Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden.
The victims were traveling in a convoy of at least four vehicles through an ancient, ruin-filled desert valley called Wadi Daw'an in Yemen's eastern Hadramut region when the gunmen attacked, a security official said. Four people were wounded. Karina Lambert, who survived the attack, said it was carried out by four gunmen hiding behind a pickup truck parked by the road.
''They wanted to kill, that's sure, because after the first bursts of machine-gun fire, they approached the vehicles and fired into the cars,'' she told Belgium's RTL-TVI television network. At least 10 suspects have been taken into custody and all roads leading to the province have been cut, said the Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=565229606366742900
Explosives found in Jinja (Uganda)
Friday, 18th January, 2008
POLICE in Jinja has recovered 60 live bombs close to a national oil reserve and a railway line. The live explosives were discovered at Kirinya in the south-eastern part of Jinja town after unknown people dumped them in a garbage dumping ground. The South Eastern Regional Police Commander, Christopher Kubai, said security personnel recovered the bombs at around 10:30 am on Wednesday.
One batch of explosives was discovered near the 30-million-litre capacity fuel depot, which is owned by Government but leased out to private oil companies. Another batch was found lying on the railway line along Engineer Dikhusoka road, about 300 metres from the first batch.
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Ping to Oorang’s tetryl and cyanide posts on post no. 771.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947527/posts?page=771#771