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Search of Nogales home yields anti-tank explosive, grenades NOGALES, Sonora - U.S. and Mexican officials are investigating a heavy weapons cache discovered in this border town that police believe was headed south to arm drug cartels. In a late Wednesday search of a Nogales home, police found an anti-tank warhead, six hand grenades and more than 1,200 rounds of ammunition, Nogales Police Chief Ramses Arce Fierro said Friday. Officers also found an empty missile tube for a larger sized shoulder-fired weapon, he said. A task force of FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were working with...

Man brandishes rocket launcher during argument SYRACUSE, NY — A Syracuse, New York, man got the scare of his life when another man pointed a rocket launcher at him during an argument. Luckily, the weapon had already been used and was inoperable. Police say the two men were arguing when one of them pulled the rocket launcher out of his girlfriend's vehicle, pulled off the cap, extended the tube and pointed it at the other man. Police later seized the rocket launcher. No charges were filed. The man said the rocket launcher came from a friend who had used it...

ATLANTA - A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit station, but the FBI said it looks to be a less-powerful model commonly used to train soldiers and would be unable to bring down an aircraft or destroy a train. . . . Lazarus said there was no cause for public alarm and the city's rail-transit system was not interrupted by the discovery.

ATLANTA - A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit station, but the FBI said it looks to be a less-powerful model commonly used to train soldiers and would be unable to bring down an aircraft or destroy a train. The M136 AT4 launcher is used by the Army to destroy light tanks. It will be examined further to be sure it is only a training model, said FBI spokesman Steve Lazarus. "If it is indeed a training device, it's something you can buy at any gun store," he said. Lazarus said there was no cause for public...

FBI officials said it posed no threat, but the discovery of a rocket launcher near MARTA train tracks in southwest Atlanta left commuters rattled Tuesday. Johnny Carter, 41, and Cecil Duck, 42, friends and co-workers who were going home from the Hamilton E. Holmes station about 4:30 p.m. had been worried about Carter's wife. She would have been at the station about the time the rocket launcher was found, about 2 p.m. "I was terrified. I knew we were safe, but she might be at the station," Duck said. "The thought of her coming off the [MARTA] bus onto something...

ATLANTA -- A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit station just outside Atlanta. The shoulder-held launcher was found by the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA station west of Atlanta by transit employees around 2 p.m., said Gene Wilson, MARTA police chief. The rocket launcher had been used and it was not loaded, he said. "It kind of looks like mini bazooka,"' he said. "We're trying to figure out when it was used and how it was used.'" The launcher, which was about three feet tall and six inches wide, was found on an embankment next to a railroad...

Live video of police examining the scene. An expended rocket launcher tube found near a Marta station east of Atlanta.

Discovered of a rocket launcher close to the embassy of Italy (police force) An artisanal rocket launcher with 30 rockets was discovered Friday morning in an adjacent street with the ambassadde from Italy in Baghdad, indicated to the AFP the General Ahmad Ibrahim, head of the Iraqi police force. This advertisement intervenes whereas Nicolo Pollari, director of the Italian services of military information (SISMI), had considered to be "very high" the risks of attacks against the Italian interests in Iraq, Tuesday evening during a hearing before the parliamentary Committee of information (COPACO).

EVREUX, France, May 30, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Three masked robbers armed with a rocket launcher forced a Brink's truck off a road in western France on Thursday and made off with $1.9 million in cash, police said. The robbery in Saint-Aquilin-de-Pacy came a week after 10 assailants attacked two Brink's trucks near Paris and traded fire with police, injuring three officers. In Thursday's robbery, the thieves, driving two cars and wielding the rocket launcher, trailed the armored truck and forced it off the road. After instructing the two-man Brink's team to get out of the truck, the...