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IDF Spokesperson 19 October 2003 Last night, (October 18th, 2003) IDF forces uncovered an arsenal of chemical materials for making explosive devices. IDF Sappers detonated the explosive materials in a controlled manner. Last night an Israeli citizen was lightly wounded when fire was opened at his vehicle near Yabed (west of Jenin) During searches in Rafah (southern Gaza Strip), IDF forces siezed three mortars located in a building. The explosive devices were detonated in a controlled manner by IDF sappers. Terrorists opened fire and hurled molotov cocktails.at IDF forces in Tulkarem. IDF forces returned fire and identified a terrorist being...

By PATRICK QUINN Associated Press Writer TIKRIT, Iraq (AP)--U.S. troops raided the home of a suspected weapons dealer on Sunday, arresting him and seizing blasting caps and other materials often used by Iraqi insurgents to build the roadside bombs that target American soldiers. As Apache helicopters hovered overhead, troops backed up by Bradley fighting vehicles battered down the front of the house in central Tikrit, looking for a man identified by fellow Iraqis as a weapons dealer and possible member of the Saddam , the regime's former militia. Inside, they found bomb-making materials and detained two people, including the suspected...

Navy seizes Hizbullah bomb expert and explosives-making materials on boat Israeli naval commandos Wednesday seized the Egyptian-registered fishing boat Abu Hassan on the high seas off the country's northern coast, capturing a suspected explosives expert from the Lebanese militant group Hizbullah. The ship also had dozens of bomb detonators and electronic instruction manuals for preparing weapons, Israeli officials said. Officials said the capture suggested that Palestinian militants were resorting to importing bomb-making skills because their own bomb-makers had been captured or killed by Israeli security forces. Many of the Palestinian experts are not with us anymore," said Raanan Gissin, a...

"The bookkeeping of the former Soviet states makes Enron's accounting look scrupulous..." In looking for international support the Bush Administration continues to argue that Saddam Hussein's Iraq may be close to creating a nuclear weapon. But after revelations about the extent of the North Korean atomic weapons program a more likely assumption may be that Iraq already has one or more. Forgotten in the current speculation over progress in Iraq is the history of the United States' own atomic bomb program...(snip) For full article, please click here.

Very disturbing article -- Federal funding for this????!!!! Mass Destruction 101 College Professor Puts up Federally Funded Website that Teaches How to Kill As the nation faced the searing memory of September 11th, a Pittsburgh college professor has put up a federally funded website that teaches lethal bomb building techniques to anyone who has access to the Internet. Under the guise of academic freedom and freedom of speech, Carnegie Mellon Professor David S. Touretzky, has put up a copy of chilling website whose author is facing federal felony charges for publishing what essentially is a bomb making manual on the...

Proud Peter. He does look pleased. To train militants in the art of bomb making, the Islamic group Hamas uses a video tape that details how wood, copper, wiring and nitroglycerin come together to create an explosive. (ABCNEWS.com) Bomb-Making 101 Hamas Militant Group Provides ‘How-to’ Video for Constructing Explosives By Dan Harris J E R U S A L E M, June 17 — A chilling 3 ½-hour videotape obtained by ABCNEWS features what the Israeli military calls "Bomb-making 101" for Palestinian militants. The tape starts with a masked man — who says he's a member of the military wing...