A minor but still important segment of the explosives industry is the production of detonating agents, or such priming compositions as lead azide [Pb(N3 2], silver azide (AgN3), and mercury fulminate [Hg(ONC 2].
The drone strikes were the deadliest reported since Dec. 30, when a double agent detonated a suicide vest packed with explosives and killed eight people at a Central Intelligence Agency base in southeastern Afghanistan.
But the CIA also paid a price in late December 2009 when an al-Qaeda double agent detonated a suicide bomb at a Bagram air base in the eastern province of Khost, killing seven from the agency.
After listening to the numbers station broadcast, she reveals Tiresias has awakened a sleeper agent to a specific task; detonating a nuclear suitcase bomb in central London by 3 pm.
Qatar provided sanctuary to the Chechen rebel leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev until two Russian secret agents killed him in 2004, detonating a bomb in his car as he left a mosque in Doha.
He told the agent he wanted to strike locations that were "real busy," detonating car bombs and destroying a bridge between Tampa and Pinellas County, Fla .His targets, he is accused of saying, were the "kuffar" — an Arabic word for infidels or disbelievers of Islam "I want to do something terrifying," he said, according to the affidavit.
The bomb he thought he was detonating was actually a fake, and his presumed associates were F.B.I. agents.
America belittles the new evidence as "low-confidence": the agents may have been spilled accidentally, by conventional shells detonating stray chemical stocks.
As it turned out, the bomber who was spirited onto a base pretending to be a Qaeda operative willing to cooperate with the Americans was actually a double agent who detonated a suicide vest as he stood among a group of C.I.A. officers.
In the episode, Tiresias, the Russian equivalent of Sugarhorse, awakens a sleeper agent to detonate a nuclear suitcase bomb in central London.
