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The Syrian interior minister, Said Sammour, said on state-run television that the explosion was set off by a burst, tire, and was not a terrorist attack.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Gen. Abdel Fattah Othman, said in a television interview that it had concluded independently that the explosion was set off by the bomber in the video, a former military officer who was dismissed for his Islamist sympathies.

Palestinian security officials said the explosions were set off by tank shells, a response to homemade rockets launched by Palestinian militants.

Witnesses said that at least one of the explosions was set off by a suicide bomber and that the second may have been as well.

Some analysts have suggested that the explosions were set off by renegade elements of Russia's military and intelligence services to build public support for a wider war.

The man was arrested on Friday after a small explosion was set off in the bathroom of a hotel where he had been staying.

Ghiorso described the discovery of the next two elements as "absolutely unexpected and out of the blue". In November 1952, a large thermonuclear explosion was set off on Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific.

Japan's wireless Internet explosion was set off last year by the introduction of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode cellular phones, which are capable of sending and receiving data.

In November 1952, a large thermonuclear explosion was set off on Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific.

The name of Francis (Rocky) McPeak, who lived in Kingman, was brought into the investigation because the home he rented was slightly damaged on Feb. 21 when an explosion was set off in nearby scrubland.

That explosion was set off by an accumulation of gas in an unventilated tunnel.