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They confiscated booby traps, boards with nails that were hidden by leaves and underbrush. You could kill a small child or a pet with those. – Michael Thurmond	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists who had booby trapped trees with metal spikes, she mailed the threatening letter for them and she was part of the cover up. She did not cooperate with investigators until she was caught. – John Barrasso	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are no risks, loops, tricks, booby traps or funny games in love -- only truth or lies. – CLIFFORD VILLALON	added by Beverley2003 3 years ago
I stopped believing the reports from the official and semi-official media in Iran regarding the circumstances around the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they are publishing various and even contradictory details : Assassins ? Motorcyclists ? A booby-trapped car ? A machine gun that fires automatically ? It seems to me that Iranian and Israeli intelligence to which this is attributed deals with psychological warfare, disinformation, and the obstruction of evidence. – Yossi Melman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The situation is under control. They have many bodies on the ground, we are at the four gates to the city. The whole city is booby-trapped. After 20 days of the campaign, we have yet to storm the city. – Sharfan Darwish	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There is news about many Daesh (IS) members escaping and evacuating some areas of Manbij and booby-trapping them, our forces are now on the outskirts of the city. The campaign continues. – Sharfan Darwish	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
My sense of it is that these people were really planning a broader attack but I think the evidence is going to continue to show that these were clearly people that had been radicalized, you don't build all these pipe bombs and set up booby traps unless you're planning something. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Fighters are still clearing homes and streets of booby-traps and mines. There are some clashes from ISIS pockets on the outskirts of the town, but Ain Isa and the surrounding villages are free of the ISIS terrorists. – Ismet Sheik Hassan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The move towards Tel Abyad from the east began today after the completion of the Suluk blockade, many of the Daesh militants have fled (Suluk), apart from a group of suicide attackers inside the town and the booby traps, so we are very cautious about entering the town center. – Redur Xelil	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The supermarket had also been booby-trapped. – Francois Molins	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago

They confiscated booby traps, boards with nails that were hidden by leaves and underbrush. You could kill a small child or a pet with those.

– Michael Thurmond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists who had booby trapped trees with metal spikes, she mailed the threatening letter for them and she was part of the cover up. She did not cooperate with investigators until she was caught.

– John Barrasso

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are no risks, loops, tricks, booby traps or funny games in love -- only truth or lies.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by Beverley2003
3 years ago

I stopped believing the reports from the official and semi-official media in Iran regarding the circumstances around the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they are publishing various and even contradictory details : Assassins ? Motorcyclists ? A booby-trapped car ? A machine gun that fires automatically ? It seems to me that Iranian and Israeli intelligence to which this is attributed deals with psychological warfare, disinformation, and the obstruction of evidence.

– Yossi Melman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The situation is under control. They have many bodies on the ground, we are at the four gates to the city. The whole city is booby-trapped. After 20 days of the campaign, we have yet to storm the city.

– Sharfan Darwish

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is news about many Daesh (IS) members escaping and evacuating some areas of Manbij and booby-trapping them, our forces are now on the outskirts of the city. The campaign continues.

– Sharfan Darwish

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

My sense of it is that these people were really planning a broader attack but I think the evidence is going to continue to show that these were clearly people that had been radicalized, you don't build all these pipe bombs and set up booby traps unless you're planning something.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fighters are still clearing homes and streets of booby-traps and mines. There are some clashes from ISIS pockets on the outskirts of the town, but Ain Isa and the surrounding villages are free of the ISIS terrorists.

– Ismet Sheik Hassan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The move towards Tel Abyad from the east began today after the completion of the Suluk blockade, many of the Daesh militants have fled (Suluk), apart from a group of suicide attackers inside the town and the booby traps, so we are very cautious about entering the town center.

– Redur Xelil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The supermarket had also been booby-trapped.

– Francois Molins

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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