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...from a basic four-month stint to two years for potential instructors. All cadets received training in infantry tactics, weaponry (everything from pistols to automatic rifles, light machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades), map reading and explosives. Rifki told police that the explosives section included "actual samples of TNT, black powder, PETN, ammonium nitrate and C4. Students also worked with detonators, detonating cords, blasting caps and timing devices (alarm clocks). Practical exercises were conducted with 100 grams of explosive material." In addition, states the Dec. 8 report, cadets studied Islam intensively, receiving up to four hours...
...toward peace, will have devastating long-term consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Bush traded a war to prevent terror for a war that invites it, and the teachings of Iraqi terrorists will not be lost on malcontents worldwide, who now know that undermining U.S. presence is as easy as TNT...
...President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos of TNT went off near the synagogue site. Since discovering the suspected plot earlier this month, police have arrested 12 people on charges ranging from weapons violations to supporting a terrorist organization. In raids on homes and businesses in Munich, Berlin and cities in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, they...
...SEIZED. 900 KG OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, more than twice the amount used in last October's Bali bombings, along with 160 kg of TNT, 1,700 detonators, two M-16s and 20,000 rounds of ammunition; in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. Police say Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terror outfit accused of the Bali blasts, was planning to use the explosives for attacks in the country. Nine suspected JI members have also been arrested...
Bombings and gunfire are daily features of life in Chechnya. But even by those sorry standards, last week marked a low in its recent history. On Monday, a truck bearing explosives equivalent to two tons of TNT rumbled into a residential and office compound in Znamenskoye, a township in the Nadterechny district, and exploded, killing 59 people and injuring 200. Two days later, a bomb at a festival near the capital, Grozny, killed at least 18 and injured more than five times as many. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just landed in Moscow, called the bombings barbarous. Standing...