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DETROIT – A 63-year-old Southern California man who had explosives in his vehicle was arrested outside one of the nation's largest mosques in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, authorities in Michigan said. Dearborn police said Roger Stockham was arraigned Wednesday on one count of making a false report or threat of terrorism and one count of possessing explosives with an unlawful intent. Stockham had a large but undisclosed quantity of class-C fireworks including M-80s, which are outlawed in Michigan, Chief Ronald Haddad said.

ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2010-12-S-344 For Immediate Release KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 31) – Afghan and coalition forces detained several suspected insurgents in Kunduz province as they targeted a Taliban leader during a joint security operation yesterday. Recently promoted to the role of area attack leader for Gor Tapa district, the targeted insurgent makes improvised explosive devices and suicide vests, leads a group of Taliban fighters and employs anti-aircraft weapons against Afghan and coalition forces. He also works closely with Taliban shadow governors in the area planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. The joint security force followed intelligence reports...

ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2010-12-S-350 4138, 4206, 4212, 4254, 4264 For Immediate Release KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 31) – Large narcotic and weapon caches were discovered by International Security Assistance Force during separate clearing operations in eastern Afghanistan today. In Nangarhar province, an ISAF patrol found a drug cache in Sherzad district consisting of 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms) of heroin, 110 gallons (416 litres) of chemicals, 160 pounds (72 kg) of soda ash, 10 gallons (37 litres) of ammonia and several drug processing kits. In the same area, ISAF also discovered a weapons cache during a separate clearing operation consisting...

<p>Police in the Denver suburb of Englewood say 10 unexploded homemade bombs were found in a cell phone store after they were thrown through the windows.</p>

      WASHINGTON — It's a tough time to be a member of the U.S. armed forces. Those serving in our all-volunteer military — and their families — are stretched and stressed by more than nine years of war. Unfortunately, our commander in chief — supposedly the champion of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines — isn't doing anything to make serving in uniform any easier. President Barack Obama — fresh from his 3 1/2-hour "visit" to Afghanistan — continues to insist that the U.S. Senate act immediately to allow active homosexuals to serve in the military....

DEVELOPING: Authorities have found what appear to be "improvised explosives" and materials to make homemade bombs at a home in Connecticut. [Snip] Police and FBI agents are at the scene Thursday and authorities are waiting for a judge to sign a search warrant application.

A California man accused of robbing banks and assembling what may be the largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. was ordered held on $5 million bail Monday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Authorities say they are checking packages at Louisville International Airport where a dog trained to sniff for explosives reacted to a pallet at a remote cargo facility. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Sari Koshetz says after the dog alerted officers at around 7 p.m. Tuesday, the facility was evacuated and explosives experts were brought in. She says the airport closed one runway as a precaution. Louisville police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley says a bomb squad was X-raying packages. The animals are trained to signal if they believe they detect explosives, but officials note an alert can be given...

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More than 9 pounds of an explosive commonly used by terrorists was found at an Escondido home where a landscaper was injured by a blast last week, authorities announced Saturday.

BRANFORD — A tractor-trailer thought to be possibly carrying explosives was found by state police at about 6 p.m. at the TA truck stop off I-95 in Branford, but no hazardous materials were found. "No explosive. No danger to the public," said William Reiner, a spokesman for the FBI in New Haven, at 8:45 p.m. Friday. Troopers approached the vehicle and took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint, then checked the truck for hazards. The state police bomb squad is en route to the rest stop to further examine the truck. State police, Branford police and the...

CNN) -- Suspicious packages found in at least two locations abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States "apparently contain explosive material," President Barack Obama said Friday, calling the discovery "a credible threat against our country." The packages led to increased searches of cargo planes and trucks in several U.S. cities, said law enforcement sources with detailed knowledge of the investigation. U.S. officials believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, commonly referred to as AQAP, is behind the incident. Obama confirmed that the packages originated in Yemen, the stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The packages found on U.S.-bound airplanes contained explosives and were intended to hit “two places of Jewish worship in Chicago,” President Obama announced Friday. The packages originated in Yemen and were identified in Dubai and London, he said, calling it a “credible terrorist threat against our country.”

A SMALL home-made device exploded in a toilet in the restroom of a fast food outlet in western Sydney but no one was injured, police say. The device was detonated in the men's toilet cubicle at a McDonald's restaurant on High St in Penrith at around 9.10pm (AEDT) yesterday. "The explosion damaged the toilet cistern and an air vent," NSW police said today in a statement. "There was nobody in the restroom at the time. "The remnants of a crudely made explosive device was found and taken for forensic examination."

SNIPPET - Quote: 17 October 2010 TOP "TEN" LIST UPDATED There are only 7 sites listed, of which one, at-Tahadi has been "closed for repairs" for a couple of weeks.

Several blocks of the deadly C-4 explosive were found Monday morning in a Lower East Side cemetery, police sources said. There was no cap or detonating device with the blocks, meaning they could not have exploded. "But it's still C-4, so it's being taken very seriously," a police source said.

"Police look for link between C4 explosives in Manhattan cemetery and bizarre note found nearby" SNIPPET: "Eight blocks of the plastic, military-grade explosive, formally known as Composition 4, were found in a black plastic garbage bag just inside Marble Cemetery, on E. Second St." SNIPPET: "The explosives were buried near the back wall of the old cemetery, and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said "you could reasonably glean from that that it was put there to threaten any structure" on the other side. The back wall of the cemetery abuts some brownstones and is about 100 feet from the notorious E...

SNIPPET: "BRANFORD, Conn. — Police and FBI agents Friday night said a tractor-trailer stopped in Branford, Conn., and suspected of carrying explosives was empty, NBC station WVIT of Hartford reported." SNIPPET: "Police were told to be on the lookout for a brown Peterbilt tractor-trailer that may have a bomb in it that was en route from Rhode Island to New York City, the New Haven Register reported. Officers were told if they encountered it to stop it and create a perimeter and stand by. Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City. In another incident, around 6:21 p.m....

SNIPPET: "Palestinian news agencies reported that Egyptian officials sand that local security forces were dispatched to the area to neutralize an old mortar dud when they discovered that a half ton of explosives packed in bags hiding beneath it. (Ynet)"

Customs officers in southern Italy have seized six to seven tonnes of high-grade explosives en route from Iran to Syria, the Italian ANSA news agency said on Tuesday, quoting sources. Investigators said the RDX explosives, found at the port of Gioia Tauro in the Calabria region, were hidden in a container transporting powdered milk.