- Unsealed search warrant shows FBI was worried about IEDs, chemical warfare agents at west Lawton apartment
March 19, 2019
An FBI search warrant, which was unsealed earlier this month, has provided new information into an investigation of a west Lawton apartment in late January, including the discovery of a potentially deadly chemical warfare agent. The FBI filed the search warrant on January 31. The warrant allowed agents to go inside the home of Philip Heath ...
- Las Vegas airport to test machines to detect explosives
March 11, 2019
As Las Vegas’ airport continues to see record-breaking passenger traffic, keeping those travelers safe is a top priority. McCarran International Airport is set to test four explosive detection machines at the Terminal 3 security checkpoint, county Director of Aviation Rosemary Vassiliadis said last month during her presentation to the Assembly Committee on Infrastructure and Growth. The project, ...
- Banff RCMP recover detonated pipe bomb from damaged garbage bin
March 1, 2019
Parks Canada employees located an improvised explosive device which had detonated within a garbage receptacle near Carrot Creek in Banff National Park on February 26. The Banff RCMP recovered the device and are investigating the incident. They said the device that caused damage to the bin was of the type commonly referred to as a pipe bomb. The RCMP ...
- Vietnam eyes closer collaboration with U.S. in bomb, mine clearance
February 27, 2019
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said Tuesday that Vietnam and the United States should strengthen collaboration in bomb and mine clearance and in support for Agent Orange victims. Minh made the remarks during talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Hanoi. Minh expressed his delight at the development of bilateral ...
- Jury Finds Man Guilty Of Trying To Detonate Explosives-Laden Van In OK
February 26, 2019
A 24-year-old man is guilty of trying to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma City bank, a federal jury ruled Monday. Jurors convicted Jerry Drake Varnell, of Sayre, of attempting to use an explosive device to damage a building and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors alleged that Varnell ...
- Police confirm improvised explosive device found under vehicle
February 26, 2019
An improvised explosive device was found under a vehicle in west Edmonton Tuesday afternoon. Police responded to the area of 159 Street, between 97 and 98 Avenue, at approximately 4:30 p.m. after a call about a possible bomb. The area was cordoned off and evacuated. The street reopened and residents were allowed back home late Tuesday. Edmonton police ...
- RCMP finds IED in Swift Current home
February 26, 2019
A 17-year-old male was to appear in Swift Current provincial court Tuesday after the RCMP found an improvised explosive device (IED) in his home. According to a media release from the RCMP, officers early Tuesday were conducting a condition check on the teen, who was on probation due to a previous conviction for possession of a weapon dangerous ...
- Prosecutors: Two IEDs found in alleged plot against Islamberg capable of exploding
February 11, 2019
The FBI says two improvised explosive devices connected to an alleged plot to attack a Muslim community were capable of exploding. The information was released in court Monday, where the youngest of the four people accused of making the plot appeared. Two months before his arrest, prosecutors say, Nicholas Pheilshifter showed a friend a plastic tube covered in duct ...
- How is the reconstruction of Iraq going?
January 31, 2019
In July 2017, the last Islamic State fighters left in the city of Mosul attempted to flee by swimming across the mighty Tigris River that runs through Iraq’s second largest city. They had been defeated. As patriotic music blared out of portable speaker systems, Iraqi soldiers danced on tanks and re-raised their national flag. But, as ...
- Kingston Ontario teen accused of conspiring to hatch terrorist bomb plot
January 25, 2019
Canadian counterterrorism detectives have arrested a teenager in Kingston and accused him of conspiring to hatch a terrorist bomb plot. RCMP Superintendent Peter Lambertucci said at a news conference on Friday that the youth, who cannot be identified by law, was arrested on Thursday and charged with facilitating a terrorist activity. He is also accused of ...
- Bank robbery involves improvised explosive device
December 13, 2018
Two security guards were injured in an explosion during an overnight armed holdup at a Scotiabank branch in northeast Edmonton. Police at the scene said the guards – a man and a woman employed by GardaWorld – suffered significant head and facial injuries in the blast that occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday. They also said the guards ...
- It’s been a blast: Police buying new explosive disposal robot, bomb suit after years of service
December 1, 2018
Sault Ste. Marie Police Service says it’s time to retire its bomb robot – which, according to a police board report, is “literally held together by wires and tape” – from the ranks of its Explosive Disposal Unit (EDU). City police will use its capital reserve fund in 2019 to purchase a replacement robot and a bomb suit ...
- Defence minister confirms Mali mission will not be extended
November 17, 2018
Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Mali will end in July as planned, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has confirmed. “The United Nations is working with other nations to look at replacing us,” Sajjan told Chris Hall in an interview airing today on CBC Radio’s The House. Sajjan spoke to Hall before his speech Friday to the tenth annual Halifax International Security Forum, a ...
- Man, 21, dead after blast led police to car packed with explosives in Sherwood Park
November 7, 2018
An explosion led police to a car packed with explosives and a man with severe injuries in Sherwood Park Tuesday night, Global News has learned. The 21-year-old man died of his injuries, RCMP confirmed in a Wednesday afternoon news conference. Security sources told Global News the explosive material was believed to be Tannerite, a brand of binary explosive ...
- Statement on the FBI’s Investigation of Suspicious Packages
October 25, 2018
Between October 22 and 24, 2018, suspicious packages were received at multiple locations in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas and Florida. The packages are being sent for analysis at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI. We have committed the full strength of the FBI’s ...
- ‘Explosive device’ sent to Clintons and Obama – US media
October 24, 2018
A suspected explosive device was discovered at the New York home of Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, law enforcement officials tell US media. A suspicious package was also reportedly sent to the office of former President Barack Obama. It comes two days after a bomb was sent to the home of liberal philanthropist and financier George ...
- How police use a ‘total containment vessel’ to haul away explosive devices
October 24, 2018
A little-known device used by police to haul away the explosive material called a “total containment vessel,” or TCV. The TCV is designed to absorb the blast from a bomb. It’s been described as “an inside-out diving vessel.” In 2016, after a pressure-cooker bomb went off in Manhattan, police gave reporters a tour of the high-tech device. “Instead of ...
- Military and police conduct counter-explosive training during Ontario exercise
October 12, 2018
Exercise Ardent Defender staged two counter-explosive threat scenarios in Meaford, ON, on October 10 and 11 as police and military personnel from a number of organizations tested their skills in dealing with explosive threats. One scenario involved a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at the harbour front and the other involved explosive devices found in a building ...
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