liquid explosive

The first batch of liquid explosive was detonated shortly after 10 p.m.

The bombs were to be made of a liquid explosive designed to pass through airport metal detectors.

A memo issued by federal security officials about the new plot highlighted a type of liquid explosive based on peroxide.

Eventually it is learned that terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body (by stomach acid).

One of the most unappealing was a Messerschmitt 163 - a rocket plane that ran on liquid explosive (pictured)

American prosecutors later concluded that Mr. Yousef had taken a liquid explosive onto the plane before disembarking.

The home-made liquid explosive was to be concocted from hydrogen peroxide and Tang, a soft drink available in powdered form.

That something turns out to be CTX, a binary liquid explosive developed by the South Korean government.

Mr. Hamadei, arrested at Frankfurt's airport with liquid explosive in his luggage, is not a hostage available for bargains.

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, now acting as his own lawyer, is accused of using a lens-solution bottle to smuggle liquid explosive aboard a jetliner.

(AP) - More rain is falling in southeastern Missouri, where the Army Corps of Engineers spent Monday pumping a liquid explosive into a levee.

Law enforcement officials say Abdulmutallab tried to ignite a concoction of highly explosive PETN and possibly a glycol-based liquid explosive hidden in his underwear.

Lev is at the camp as well, having turned himself in after becoming a clapper, a suicide bomber who has been injected with a liquid explosive triggered by clapping hard enough.

As the investigation progressed, it became clear that police had foiled a terrorist plot to smuggle a new type of liquid explosive on to as many as seven transatlantic airliners.

Shortly after the plane had departed, it was ordered back to Philadelphia when police received a call that the former boyfriend, Christopher Shell, 29, was carrying a "liquid explosive" on board.

In 1995, a plot to bomb 12 American jumbo jets over the Pacific with a liquid explosive was discovered when the bomb makers accidentally set fire to their laboratory in Manila.

Aviation security officials eased the ban on carry-on liquids for airline passengers on Monday, after weeks of testing to determine how much of a liquid explosive would be needed to cause catastrophic damage to an airplane.

At another airport, a screener stopped a tester carrying a small, unlabeled bottle of medicated shampoo saying "it could contain acid" but did not identify an actual liquid explosive carried separately by the tester.

In one of these bags, American agents are said to have found two toy cars packed with plastic explosives, as well as cotton swabs soaked in a liquid explosive of the kind used by terrorist bomb-makers.

On Christmas Day, accused Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a liquid explosive attached to his underwear while on board Delta Flight 253 as it was landing in Detroit.

Philippine Airlines Flight 434 1994 al-Queda test run for Operation Bojinka, in which a passenger was killed and 747 controls seriously damaged by a liquid explosive packed into contact lens solution bottles containing nitroglycerin.

Rauf wrote that al Qaeda believed half a kilo of liquid explosive would without a doubt destroy an airplane, having noted a similar amount of plastic explosive Semtex had destroyed Pan Am Flight103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

And Mr. Yousef is accused of using a plastic bottle from contact lens solution to smuggle liquid explosive aboard a Philippine Airlines jetliner in December 1994 and fashioning a bomb that later exploded, killing a Japanese passenger.

But the recent failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on board a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Michigan, raises new questions on whether security has improved, considering the suspect in that case tried to ignite a liquid explosive hidden in his underwear.

Kenneth W. Smith Jr., 26, is accused of "knowingly engaging in conduct with intent to convey false and misleading information," after allegedly making a Thursday morning phone call to police, reporting a false threat about a passenger with "liquid explosive" aboard Flight 1267.