They carried incendiary devices and high explosives intended to start forest fires and sow terror.
There are no visible hacksaws, manacles or face masks wired with explosives intended to blow a jaw apart.
In December 1999, Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian, was intercepted in Washington State with explosives intended to blow up Los Angeles airport.
The insurgents also parked two vehicles outside the compound, which were packed with explosives intended to blow up when reinforcements arrived.
The bomb had not been "armed" with its nuclear core; the blast came from the explosives intended to trigger a chain reaction.
The blast, which took place about two blocks from a hospital, may have been set off by a car full of explosives intended for other locations.
The officials said a Syrian government plane that carried aid to Iran in late December had loaded up with small arms and possibly explosives intended for Hezbollah and Hamas, militant groups carrying out armed attacks against Israel.
In 1999, the Americans nabbed an Algerian asylum-seeker as he tried to cross the border from Canada with explosives intended to blow up Los Angeles International Airport.Canada is the easiest country in the developed world in which to obtain refugee status.
The B-52's carried payloads of 500-pound gravity bombs, called Mark-82, which are more traditional explosives intended to kill massed troops, to destroy tanks or other weapons or to level structures like those found at military training camps or to gut airstrips.
His injuries came not from fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, as he had told followers, but rather in Lahore, Pakistan, when liquid explosives intended for use in a road construction project went off by mistake.
