About 10 seconds later, the FBI said, a bomb blew up where he'd been standing.
On Sunday a car bomb blew up in the heart of the financial district in Manama, though without causing injuries.
On May 16, a suicide car bomb blew up a U.S. military convoy in Kabul, killing 16 people, including six Americans.
As it is, a car bomb blew up in eastern Baghdad this morning and killed two civilians and about 10 others were wounded.
And so, for example, in Iraq, I was with a bomb squad up in Taji, which is just north of Baghdad, and there were some downtime in between missions.
On Thursday, a bomb blew up at an election office of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in the city of Mir Ali in the North Waziristan tribal area near Afghanistan, according to two Pakistan intelligence officials.
The country is also facing the systematic risks of a Greek debt bomb blowing up in the EU, making it harder for countries to convince financial institutions to lend at reasonable rates, if at all.
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The bomb disposal team said they believed someone had dug-up the bomb from the ground and placed it in the fireplace for "safe keeping".
He said his body bears the scars of the Taliban bomb which blew up the unit he was working with in Sangin on 14 November 2007.
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One eyewitness, Mohammad Zia, told Associated Press that the vehicle with the bomb inside drove up to the gates of the barricaded NDS building and then was detonated.
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Citing a similar, larger bomb at a Sunni funeral in May, the opposition suggests that the regime may itself have planted the latest bomb to stir up communal strife.
British troops are still engaged in some risky activities - including running road convoys to evacuate equipment from their remaining bases, providing some bomb disposal back up, and sending helicopters on supply runs.
Those are the same explosive materials used to construct the truck bomb that blew up behind the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998, killing 213 people, including 12 Americans, and injuring more than 4, 000 other people.
Yet their rivalry is fuelling the fastest, most dangerous build-up of bomb-usable plutonium and uranium anywhere.
Indeed, there is value in their sticking together even if the North has no intention of giving up its bomb.
South Korea worried aloud that this might free America up to bomb North Korea, but the Pentagon insists that increasing troops' flexibility is its main motive.
An immediate casualty was the effort to get all members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), who have already promised not to seek the bomb, to sign up to an additional protocol on toughened safeguards.
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But the indictment makes no mention of a plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" or blow up apartment buildings with natural gas -- allegations made previously in public statements and court arguments by Justice Department officials.
Also, right after the roadside bomb, a taxicab pulled up with five Iraqi males inside.
South Africa is the only country that has willinging given up a nuclear bomb.
They set out a four-year timetable to gather up and secure bomb-usable fissile material.
William Hague once warned David Cameron that Europe was "a ticking bomb" which could blow up the Conservative party.
After the Tel Aviv suicide bomb, Mr Arafat rounded up 23 Hamas men in Gaza, allegedly because the bomber had come from there.
On May 1, 2010, Faisal Shahzad, an American-Pakistani recruited by the Pakistani Taliban, attempted to blow up a car bomb in New York's Times Square.
That's always a possibility, just as it's always a possibility that a person can carry a bomb, and blow it up on himself in the presence of others.
The soldier, from 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh, was on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj region of Helmand province when his vehicle was blown up by a bomb.
But the Justice Department did not include accusations that Padilla plotted to detonate a "dirty bomb" or to blow up apartment buildings, although government officials had leveled those allegations publicly before Padilla was charged.
When F1 returned to Bahrain in 2012, the race weekend was undisturbed although two members of the Force India team returned to the UK after being caught up in petrol bomb attacks on their journey from the Sakhir circuit.
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