In both cases, cars were loaded with large amounts of explosive material, according to Guler.
Although both are made from petroleum jelly, only one of them has potentially explosive material.
According to Air Force officials, the 20.5 foot-long MOP carries over 5, 300 pounds of explosive material.
An initial examination of those packages has determined that they do apparently contain explosive material.
Each shell contains a small amount of explosive material, and some is used to produce whistles and other effects.
The most common way to desensitise an explosive is by mixing it with a non-explosive material, such as wax or paper.
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The Laser Avenger, which is being developed by Boeing, is a vehicle-mounted system that can slowly heat explosive material from several hundred metres.
They try to cover their tracks after handling explosive material by disposing of any shoes and clothes worn while putting the incendiary device together.
With explosive material placed in pressure cookers and nails and other small parts added to make them more lethal, the devices tracked the Inspire recipe.
"Some explosive material at the time was discovered, although none of it carried IAEA seals, and this discovery was reported to coalition forces for removal of the material, " Ereli said.
Dutch authorities have said they are confident about how AbdulMutallab was screened but acknowledge that they could not have detected the explosive material that he was said to be carrying.
Ter Horst said that security measures in place in Amsterdam were metal detectors and X-ray machines, and admitted they could not have picked up the explosive material that AbdulMullatab was allegedly carrying.
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The late Peter Roebuck, one of the world's greatest cricket writers, once exclaimed that removing Rahul Dravid from the crease would possibly need gelignite, an explosive material invented by Alfred Nobel.
In testimony Tuesday, FBI forensic chemist Kelly Mount told the jury that clothing found in the travel bag of defendant Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, accused in the bombing in Kenya, contained traces of explosive material.
John Conkling, a chemist with decades of experience in fireworks, said the photograph included with the latest criminal complaints "clearly showed they were taking apart consumer fireworks, " probably to get to the explosive material inside.
Much larger quantities of black powder and similar low-grade explosives can be purchased at gun stores and other outlets, he said, and would have been a simpler and cheaper way for the alleged bombers to procure explosive material.
"This is because a substantial quantity of potentially explosive pharmaceutical material - Isosorbide Dinitrate (ISDN Pure) - has been identified on the site following a recent joint inspection by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environment Agency Wales, " explained the council officer.
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In a statement, the council's chief executive, Colin Everett, said "a substantial quantity of potentially explosive pharmaceutical material - Isosorbide Dinitrate (ISDN Pure) - has been identified on the site following a recent joint inspection by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environment Agency Wales".
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What if the desensitising material is itself an explosive of lower sensitivity?
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Word of the October alert was just the latest sign of the concerns U.S. officials have about the possibility al Qaeda or another terrorist network might gain access to a nuclear device -- either a nuclear weapon or a so-called "dirty bomb, " one that contains radioactive material spread by detonating a conventional explosive.
Reid's shoes allegedly contained several bomb-related materials including the explosive PETN, plastic chemicals to gel and mold the explosives and TATP, a highly sensitive material needed to detonate the shoe bombs, sources told CNN.
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