Bob Leonard did not have a booby trap for him, but he did have some angry words.

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The robots sent video back to the troops, sparing them the risk of being dispatched by booby trap or enemy combatant.

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Cpl Tom Neathway, based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in a civilian role, was injured when a booby trap bomb detonated in 2008.

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They encountered what commanders believe may have been a booby trap a box discovered while the three were collecting firewood at Kandahar International Airport.

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McAfee warned that attackers could booby-trap websites with the exploit code and "silently" compromise vulnerable PCs.

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Less than two weeks later, an undercar booby-trap bomb was found lying on a road in west Belfast.

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