That day, three of its members detonated similar explosives belts after being cornered by officers; a fourth bomber was killed by a police sniper.
These initiatives gained new impetus after the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group in Washington with 750,000 members, detonated traditional Mexican food in the latest of its exposes.
Israel has responded with dozens of air strikes in which eight Palestinian militants were killed on Monday, seven of them in a tunnel in an incident Israel claims occurred when Hamas members accidentally detonated their own explosives.
Although he was originally described as plotting with al Qaeda members to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," the Justice Department has since focused on allegations that he planned to blow up apartment buildings by filling them with natural gas.
The Israelis died when members of Hamas detonated bombs underneath a bus in the West Bank and gunned down passengers as they fled.
Police said officers and Royal Logistics Corps members had "safely detonated" the flare which was found in a canal.
On the afternoon of Dec. 25, 2011, in the northern Takhar Province of Afghanistan, a funeral procession was gathering in a field on the outskirts of my hometown, the city of Taloqan, when a suicide bomber approached Mutalib Bek, a member of Parliament, and detonated his explosive vest.
BAGHDAD — At least 24 tribal leaders who were meeting at the house of an influential Sunni sheik to discuss national reconciliation efforts were killed and as many as 42 others were wounded Friday after a member of the tribe detonated an explosive vest among the guests, government officials said.
BAGHDAD — A teenager holding a box of candy strode into a gathering of Sunni Arab tribal members near Falluja and detonated an explosive belt, killing four people and wounding nine, members of the Issawi tribe said Sunday.
