Word: bombs
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...Qaeda takes responsibility for bomb killing...
...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...
...added to the confusion on Tuesday, claiming that Iran planned to install 50,000 centrifuges in an interview with the semi-official ISNA new agency. Western experts are concerned about Iran's mastery of centrifuges, because the process produces enriched uranium and is the technological step required for making bomb fuel...
...inspectors "have not seen concrete proof of the industrial capacity to produce weapon-usable nuclear material." Weeks earlier, the IAEA had said that Iran remained some time away from even the capacity to generate industrial-grade fuel (which is enriched to 3.5%, compared with the 90% required for bomb material). Western analysts believe that the IAEA was alluding to the considerable technical problems being experienced by Iranian engineers in running the delicate centrifuge cascades for more than short spurts. Iran has recently begun to set limits on IAEA access at Natanz...
...were thinking, 'this car is a bomb.'" Lozano says. Only two nights before, a couple of servicemen had been killed by an improvised explosive device on the same road. Lozano added, "If the car had blown up at that close range, it would have killed us all." The soldiers, he says, cautiously approached the vehicle, guns ready...