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Others said they were taught how to make letter bombs.

So far, no one has been injured by the letter bombs.

That would explain why the letter bomb was so ineffective.

According to him, people regularly send letter bombs to the station.

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"It was a message with all the subtlety of a letter bomb."

This evening, a police spokesman confirmed that they were also letter bombs.

Part of his left hand was missing, the result of a letter bomb.

"After a house search, materials and implements which could be used to make letter bombs were found."

People who send letter bombs are not generally that considerate.

"A letter bomb delivered to the post office by a private courier."

Tonight, two more letter bombs were found as workers continued to search incoming mail.

A letter bomb was sent to Barker's home, but his wife saw it as suspicious and called the police.

He classified the letter bombs as the "price of forcing a political ideal on people".

He immediately talks about the news article, the letter bomb, and my fingerprints at the scene.

It was the fifth letter bomb in three days sent to officials of groups that provide assistance to refugees.

Attack on one's family, letter bombs, military intervention at Whitehall.

However a letter bomb sent to Moody at her office explodes when she opens it.

In 1993, he suffered burns to his face and stomach when a letter bomb exploded.

She is credited with having saved her husband's life after a letter bomb explosion in their private residence.

In 1972, a letter bomb was sent to him, which was defused.

He was killed by a letter bomb while in exile in Zimbabwe.

Apparently two more letter bombs have been sent, according to the letter with the German police.

It seemed unlikely that Leighton had reached the point of sending him letter bombs.

He watched it warily, as though it was a letter bomb.

If anyone got a mail bomb, it would be me."

About that time, two other mail bombs were discovered in the South before they could explode.

Electronic mail bombs and fax attacks rain down upon them.

The mail bombs were wrapped in brown paper with similar address and advertising labels.

In 1919 two campaigns of mail bombing were discovered.

Finally, there is the zip-gun bomber, who has sent mail bombs to seven people since 1982.

On Monday, a police officer was injured when a mail bomb went off in a police station.

After a lull, he began another mail bombing campaign in earnest, beginning in 1993.

The observation deck was closed to the public in 1997 after heightened security measures due to, among other things, the mail bomb incident of 1994.

A mail bomb script which would rapidly send e-mails to a user's inbox until it was full.

A mail bomb exploded today in the offices of a forest-products trade group, killing the chief lobbyist, the authorities said.

And, as an employee using a letter opener discovered on Friday, it contained an unwelcome surprise: a mail bomb.

The judge, Robert S. Vance, died instantly when a mail bomb exploded.

These types of mail bombs are simple to design but their extreme simplicity means they can be easily detected by spam filters.

Mail bombs use pressure or friction devices."

The letter, like the recent mail bombs, bore postal markings indicating it was from Sacramento, Calif.

In a 17-year chain of mail bombs, the terrorist whose acts are known as the Unabom case has killed 3 people and injured 23.

He compiled a hit-list of 15 targets as well as possible methods, including mail bombs and gunshots to the head.

He said investigators believed that four mail bombs that turned up in four cities in three states last year were the work of one person.

As he explains in his straightforward way, "One morning in June 1993 I was almost killed by a mail bomb."

At that time, though, I had no rule - hard, fast, or of any other kind - about jokers who claimed to have mailed bombs to me.

June 2 - Several mail bombs are sent to prominent figures as part of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.

Over the next handful of issues, he has his cab stolen, meets his exact double and has to deal with a mail bomb.

For example, he sends him a package with an alarm clock, making Ziegenhals think that he has received a mail bomb.

As the inspector is forced to exit the vehicle, he surreptitiously activates the timer on the mail bomb and tosses it in the back seat.