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Thomas Matthew Crooks made 25 different gun-related buys online between spring 2023 and the first half of this year, and bought material used in explosives six times, officials said, offering new glimpses into their far-ranging investigation into the July 13 Read More …
The two devices in the car owned by Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., were almost identical in construction, according to the task force’s report. Each contained a cardboard tube filled with a gray powder that was described by Read More …
Soldiers recovered materials used for making explosives in Barangay Exciban, Labo, Camarines Norte. The cache included five large plastic drums containing 21 rolls of detonating cables, capable of producing nearly 2,000 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) valued at approximately P2.3 million. Read More …
A remote detonator was found on would-be assassin Thomas Crooks’ body alongside his cell phone after he was shot dead by Secret Service snipers at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. A picture first published by Pittsburgh’s WPXI Read More …
In barely a week, the Israel Defense Forces has lost two fighters to powerful roadside bombs in the West Bank. Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22, a sniper team commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit, was killed in an explosion Read More …
Bodycam footage shows the moment a chemical pipe bomb exploded on a Putnam County deputy during a traffic stop. In April, 60-year-old Charles Legault was pulled over by a Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputy. In the video, the deputy first Read More …
Mohammad Farooq, 28, was arrested outside the hospital with a pressure cooker bomb designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013. Sheffield Crown Court heard Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Read More …
A stash with components for making explosive devices has been found at the border with Ukraine, BelTA learned from the spokesman of the State Border Committee of Belarus Anton Bychkovsky. Anton Bychkovsky said that a Belarusian border patrol found a Read More …
A boy was injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off at a gasoline station in Lamitan City, Basilan evening on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. According to the provincial government, the boy passed by the area when the explosion Read More …
A man has appeared in court charged with making explosive substances. Harry Whittaker, 31, of Caddington, near Luton, Bedfordshire, denied three counts of unlawfully creating a “nitrate-based low-explosive composition such as the explosive substance black powder”. Appearing at the Old Read More …
On Monday, Soldiers from the 94th Brigade, Duvdevan Unit, 41st Brigade, and Shin Bet forces completed an 18-hour counterterrorism operation in the Far’a area in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, the IDF announced on Tuesday. During the operation, soldiers discovered Read More …
Law enforcers have found materials for making bombs at a fish farm they suspect was being used as a militant hideout in Netrokonas Sadar Upazila. Nearly 150 police personnel, alongside members of a bomb disposal unit from Dhaka, entered the Read More …
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has conducted 180 Intelligence-Based Operations (IBOs) in various cities of Punjab and apprehended 15 terrorists. The CTD spokesman said that a wanted terrorist affiliated with the banned TTP who was trained in South Waziristan, arrested in Read More …
Police in Mandera East on Wednesday, June 5 averted a possible tragedy when they recovered and demolished an IED planted in an abandoned house. Corporal Ibrahim Isaac says that at around 9 am while manning the border at Border Point Read More …
The man was treated by fire-fighters after he “suffered significant burns following an explosion,” on Monday, the source said. A subsequent search of his room led to the discovery of products and materials intended for the manufacture of explosive devices, Read More …
Soldiers killed a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and confiscated 26 improvised explosive devices in an air and ground anti-terror offensive in Barangay Butilen, Salibo town in Maguindanao del Sur on Saturday. Soldiers dispatched to clear the area Read More …
A man who built a homemade explosive forcing around 60 people to flee their homes has been jailed for 30 months. Christopher Scarr was caught with the device in a cupboard at the property in Glasgow’s Springburn on April 17, Read More …
The mother and girlfriend of two Islamist terrorists have been convicted separately of failing to disclose plans for a terror attack in two different criminal trials. Girlfriend Tasnia Ahmed, 21, from Tower Hamlets in east London, failed to report her Read More …
Ricky Anderson, 45 (09.08.78) of Beechwood Drive, Woodford Green appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, 9 May where he was sentenced to a total of five years in prison for firearm offences. Anderson was also given a five year Read More …
The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported. “The group members, at an Read More …