Associated Press/Homeland Security Department - This Homeland Security Department pamphlet, from July 2010, distributed to police, fore, EMS and security personnel shows a diagram for rudimentary improvised
CAIRO (AP) — Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers, a version of which was used in the Boston Marathon bombings, have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Al-Qaida's
branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one,
urging "lone jihadis" to act on their own to carry out attacks.
President Barack Obama
underlined Tuesday that investigators do not know if the twin bombing
the day before that killed three people and wounded more than 170 was
carried out by an international organization, a domestic group or a
"malevolent individual." There has been no claim of responsibility.
A person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that
the explosives were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with
shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage.Click Here for more
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