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[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present. – Glen VanHerck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The man who was responsible for these explosions, it becomes clear, made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed, as they install this foundation within the Natanz facility, they have no idea that it already includes an enormous amount of explosives. – Ilana Dayan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I stand up on overwatch and we start rolling forward. And 30 seconds later, I see a Marine in the open. I see a fireball. And then I see I, you know, start to feel explode, you know, start to hear the explosion because you always kind of feel it and see things first and then then you actually hear it, it was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition. – Michael Logue	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The fact that someone died, the number of people taken and the apparent use of explosives to breach the ship's citadel means it is a potential game-changer, it's clearly quite sophisticated and if pirates have decided to use munitions it's a big move. – David Johnson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you think about it, detection dogs are not new, you’ve seen them in airports, they’ve been used in mission critical situations by the police and the military. We’ve used them at the arena for years to detect explosives. – Matthew Jafarian	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Jolly Roger is entirely false. Jessica Watkins hates explosives. There is no moral or lawful way to really make use of explosives as a regular citizen. – Montana Siniff	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on, violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear ! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington. – Steven Sund	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on, violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear -- climbing gear! -- explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington. – Steven Sund	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The selected dogs have years working on the detection of drugs, explosives and other types of things. For them, it is simply learning to detect a new smell, a new aroma. – Fernando Mardones.From	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Tohono O'odham Nation is adamantly opposed to the construction of the 30-foot, fortified border wall, which would irrevocably harm cultural sites, sacred sites and the environment, media reports that explosives are now being used further demonstrates the massive and unnecessary destruction the wall is inflicting. – Ned Norris Jr.	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy. – Hamada Hamada	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Initial findings indicate the object that caused the explosion was either an aircraft carrying explosives or a direct explosive (missile). The writings and signs on the debris will allow us to understand exactly what happened soon. – Kudret Ozersay	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are. – Jerry Guilbert	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Five attackers, including the suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle, were involved in the attack. – Zabihullah Mujahid	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A martyrdom attack using an explosives jacket hit a gathering of Afghan intelligence. – Islamic State militants	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They took us to three of the four tunnels on the site. They allowed us to open us the tunnel doors, take a look inside, we couldn't actually step into the tunnels, as far as the eye could see, they were rigged with explosives. – Will Ripley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There have been explosives devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school, because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place. – Santa Fe High School	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Some of these drones can fly anywhere from one to 15 pounds of explosives. – Randy Sterett	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We see that the buildings are surrounded by berms; they are a distance from each other. This is a typical design for a site that works with high explosives, i think there are serious questions to be asked [of] the Iranian government. Most likely IAEA should have access to this site. – Olli Heinonen	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was a remote-controlled device with 3-4 kg of explosives ... I think these kinds of cowardly acts will not reduce our morale. – Home Minister Safaraz Bugti	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It was a judge's car that was passing, but I believe it was the police who were the target, it was a remote-controlled device with 3-4 kg of explosives ... I think these kinds of cowardly acts will not reduce our morale. – Home Minister Safaraz Bugti	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There is no scientific basis to it. It's a complete fraud, if authorities are putting any reliance on this to detect explosives, it's ludicrous. It's unbelievable they are still using this. – Scientist Dennis McAuley	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They improvised this whole idea in about 15, 20 minutes, i asked the question of how much (explosives) we were using, and I said ... 'Don't bring the building down.' But that was the extent of my guidance. – Dallas Police Chief David Brown	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Open-pit mining as in the use of explosives is horrific for the environment. It's a cheap way to extract. And for the top most country vulnerable to climate change it's madness to even consider it, we must stop killing our future for the interests of a few. – Regina Lopez	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The man who was responsible for these explosions, it becomes clear, made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed, as they install this foundation within the Natanz facility, they have no idea that it already includes an enormous amount of explosives.

– Ilana Dayan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I stand up on overwatch and we start rolling forward. And 30 seconds later, I see a Marine in the open. I see a fireball. And then I see I, you know, start to feel explode, you know, start to hear the explosion because you always kind of feel it and see things first and then then you actually hear it, it was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition.

– Michael Logue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fact that someone died, the number of people taken and the apparent use of explosives to breach the ship's citadel means it is a potential game-changer, it's clearly quite sophisticated and if pirates have decided to use munitions it's a big move.

– David Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you think about it, detection dogs are not new, you’ve seen them in airports, they’ve been used in mission critical situations by the police and the military. We’ve used them at the arena for years to detect explosives.

– Matthew Jafarian

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Jolly Roger is entirely false. Jessica Watkins hates explosives. There is no moral or lawful way to really make use of explosives as a regular citizen.

– Montana Siniff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on, violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear ! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.

– Steven Sund

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on, violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear -- climbing gear! -- explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.

– Steven Sund

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The selected dogs have years working on the detection of drugs, explosives and other types of things. For them, it is simply learning to detect a new smell, a new aroma.

– Fernando Mardones.From

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Tohono O'odham Nation is adamantly opposed to the construction of the 30-foot, fortified border wall, which would irrevocably harm cultural sites, sacred sites and the environment, media reports that explosives are now being used further demonstrates the massive and unnecessary destruction the wall is inflicting.

– Ned Norris Jr.

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy.

– Hamada Hamada

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Initial findings indicate the object that caused the explosion was either an aircraft carrying explosives or a direct explosive (missile). The writings and signs on the debris will allow us to understand exactly what happened soon.

– Kudret Ozersay

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

– Jerry Guilbert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Five attackers, including the suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle, were involved in the attack.

– Zabihullah Mujahid

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A martyrdom attack using an explosives jacket hit a gathering of Afghan intelligence.

– Islamic State militants

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They took us to three of the four tunnels on the site. They allowed us to open us the tunnel doors, take a look inside, we couldn't actually step into the tunnels, as far as the eye could see, they were rigged with explosives.

– Will Ripley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There have been explosives devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school, because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place.

– Santa Fe High School

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Some of these drones can fly anywhere from one to 15 pounds of explosives.

– Randy Sterett

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We see that the buildings are surrounded by berms; they are a distance from each other. This is a typical design for a site that works with high explosives, i think there are serious questions to be asked [of] the Iranian government. Most likely IAEA should have access to this site.

– Olli Heinonen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was a remote-controlled device with 3-4 kg of explosives ... I think these kinds of cowardly acts will not reduce our morale.

– Home Minister Safaraz Bugti

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It was a judge's car that was passing, but I believe it was the police who were the target, it was a remote-controlled device with 3-4 kg of explosives ... I think these kinds of cowardly acts will not reduce our morale.

– Home Minister Safaraz Bugti

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is no scientific basis to it. It's a complete fraud, if authorities are putting any reliance on this to detect explosives, it's ludicrous. It's unbelievable they are still using this.

– Scientist Dennis McAuley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They improvised this whole idea in about 15, 20 minutes, i asked the question of how much (explosives) we were using, and I said ... 'Don't bring the building down.' But that was the extent of my guidance.

– Dallas Police Chief David Brown

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Open-pit mining as in the use of explosives is horrific for the environment. It's a cheap way to extract. And for the top most country vulnerable to climate change it's madness to even consider it, we must stop killing our future for the interests of a few.

– Regina Lopez

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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