http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/grenade/ en-us Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:26:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084878/posts As Spc. Jorge Monjaras peered out the open hatch of an Abrams tank last month, he saw a young insurgent dart out of a crowd and lob a makeshift grenade. A small blast hit his back and burned a fist-sized hole into his body armor vest but left him without a scratch. The explosion was only the blasting cap. The main explosive, a 60 mm mortar round, landed inside his hatch and moved freely at his feet. It wasn’t until the next day when he prepped the tank for a different mission that he realized how lucky he was. To... Stars and Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084878/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452140/posts TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgian police working with the FBI discovered dangerous substances in the house of the suspect who admitted throwing a live grenade toward President Bush at a rally in Tbilisi in May, officials said Wednesday. Sergo Dzagnidze, chief of the criminal police department at the Interior Ministry, told The Associated Press that 5 gallons of sulfuric acid, several boxes of mercury thermometers, a centrifuge, a microscope and other devices and dangerous chemicals were found in the cellar. The suspect, Vladimir Arutyunian, was detained last week after a police shootout. He was charged Tuesday with terrorism over the... TPO.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452140/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:13:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053503/posts Frag-12 shotgun round is a series of special purpose shotgun grenades, including high explosive blast, fragmentation, and HEAP grenades intended to be fired from any 12-ga shotgun. It has been proposed as an armament for modern UAVs and is currently being tested for military deployment. Military.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053503/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947527/posts Still in Control Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947527/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 04:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935265/posts National Terror Alert has a report of a grenade being found at Westroads Mall in Omaha a week ago. Link http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2007/12/01/omaha-grenade-found-at-westroads-mall-parking-lot/ The National Terror Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935265/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:05:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900979/posts Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan By RUTH REISS [snip] One RPG skidded past Lt. Mariani's vehicle. All of the vehicles had to quickly get out of the "kill zone." But before they could get to safety, two rockets hit Pvt. Moss' Humvee. Staff Sgt. Eric Wynn, 33, the soldier in the front passenger seat, felt one slice through his face. Moss remembers the truck practically lift up. He was thrown up against the Humvee and then moved to return fire. "I smelled something smoking and I looked down ... and I was smoking," he said. Wynn turned... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900979/posts#comment Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:46:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857431/posts FORT HUACHUCA — A Tuesday fire on this Southern Arizona post was caused by a ricocheting practice round from a 40mm machine gun-like grenade launcher that hit a tank hulk being used as a target, post officials said. As of early Tuesday evening, the blaze, which is being called the Range 9 Fire, had consumed between 350 and 400 acres since it started about 10:30 a.m. Using the special range on the post were soldiers of the Arizona Army National Guard’s 860th Military Police Company, according to fort officials. The company, whose headquarters is in Casa Grande, is at the... Sierra Vista Herald/Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857431/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:29:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807497/posts FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. -- A Flagler Beach swimmer's discovery of a box marked "grenade" with 18 live shells inside prompted authorities to evacuate five homes, two businesses and close several nearby streets Monday night, according to police. Officers said the woman swimmer found the ammunition-size box containing the explosives on South 19th Street and South Oceanshore Boulevard. Police said she put the container with explosives in her car and traveled to a phone and called for help. When Flagler County fire officials arrived, they noticed the package and called the Volusia County bomb squad. "The box had "grenade" written on... local6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807497/posts#comment Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:01:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794875/posts Ultraviolent War GameIn this war game, you get to destroy Iraqi insurgents, mutants, demons, and more, with a wide variety of weapons. Blast demons with your shotgun, take out a Japanese gunner with your grenade, toast an insurgent with your flamethrower... and watch the body parts scatter! If you like it, be sure to Digg it! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794875/posts#comment Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750755/posts A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall at the height of the Christmas rush, authorities said. ..."He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday ... because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought that would be the highest concentration of shoppers that he could kill and injure," said Robert Grant, the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office. Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750755/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 01:32:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993596/posts <p>WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is investigating a trip by 100 Muslim members of the U.S. armed forces for a pilgrimage to Mecca that was paid for by a Saudi charity accused of financing al Qaeda, The Post has learned.</p> <p>The so-called "Hajj Tour" in March 2001 for Muslim servicemen and chaplains was organized by the Muslim World League, a major charity group financed in part by the Saudi royal family and which is dedicated to the spread of Wahhabism, the extreme form of Islam embraced by Osama bin Laden.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993596/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697600/posts Every once in a while I just cannot find the information I need on the internet and I will try Free Republic as a last resort and either find the answers I need or great answers from people who think they know what I need. What I need is your expertise on these items I bought. Ignore my M1919A6 in the flamethrower pic. That one runs ;). (Unknown Flamethrower) I need to know: What is it? What era? What are the three (3) parts in the picture? What are the parts that I am missing? How much to restore? Any... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697600/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 05:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1677732/posts Cleland, who flew in from his Georgia home yesterday for the event, offered a scathing rebuke of those who have questioned Murtha's patriotism. "We need to end the Swift Boat attacks against men like John Murtha and wring their necks like a chicken," Cleland said. "We're not going to let them swift-boat John Murtha." "Wring their necks like a chicken". That's not just rhetoric. That's a threat of violence. Does this man realize what he is saying? The opponents, though, insist they are not affiliated with the Swift Boat veterans. That's true, but it doesn't matter. I've seen up close... Murtha Must Go!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1677732/posts#comment Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653918/posts Saw this pic posted as part of a Reuters article and didn't recognize the weapon. Looked it up - looks like a useful little tool. Video: rtsp://real.gannett.speedera.net/real.gannett/atpco/blackwater/2005/MGL-140.rm Info: http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,SoldierTech_060323_mgl140,,00.html?ESRC=soldiertech.nl Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653918/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618700/posts SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- A Salvadoran woman is in some trouble after she allegedly tried to smuggle into the country's main prison a military grenade and marijuana hidden in her vagina. The cylinder was about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide. Officials didn't say what prompted them to check Lidia Alvarado, 44, but authorities have raised the security level at jails across the country, fearing inmates may be planning something. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618700/posts#comment Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594186/posts CAMP MERCURY, Iraq (March 9, 2006) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to want one. Marines with Regimental Combat Team 5, based in Camp Fallujah, test-fired the latest in the Corps’ arsenal of weapons’ improvement, the M-32 Multiple shot Grenade Launcher. It’s a six-barreled, 40 mm beast of weapon that has just about enough attitude for Marines. “I thought it was pretty bad the first time I saw it,” said Cpl. Jason H. Flanery, a 23-year-old mortarman from St. Louis, Mo., assigned to RCT-5’s Personnel Security Detachment. The M-32 MGL looks like something straight out of an action movie or a... Marine Corps News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594186/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:09:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576992/posts Federal agents contend that a Pennsylvania man tried to work with al Qaeda in a plot to blow up the Alaska pipeline, another pipeline in Pennsylvania and a refinery in New Jersey, according to a published report. Michael Curtis Reynolds, 47, has not officially been charged with terrorism, but a prosecutor at a hearing said that Reynolds tried to "provide material aid to al Qaeda" and that the case "involves a federal offense of terrorism," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in its Sunday editions. CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston reports that a tip from Shannen Rossmiller - a judge from Conrad,... cbs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576992/posts#comment Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565754/posts A Northwest Airlines flight attendant has been grounded and could face charges after security personnel reported finding a real but inactive hand grenade in her carry-on luggage at Milwaukee's airport. The 39-year-old Cordova, Tenn., woman, whose name was not released, is expected to appear today in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Minneapolis Star/Tribune (aka The Red Star) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565754/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:10:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544722/posts Richardson police said they were surprised to find a grenade inside a car following a confrontation between two drivers in North Texas. Police said one of the drivers threatened the other with the hand grenade, which wasn't the only alarming object police said they found in the car. They also confiscated additional ammunition that could have been used to create an explosive. "As officers approached the car...they saw what appeared to be a couple of hand grenades inside the car," said Sgt. Kevin Perlich, Richardson Police Department. *** Police checked the grenades and said they were real but did not... WFAA TV Dallas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544722/posts#comment Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528337/posts A retired gun dog proved that his retrieving instinct, if not his judgment, was still sound when he proudly presented his owner with an unexpected find - a live hand grenade. Jake the 15-year-old labrador, who is blind in one eye, is rather deaf and walks unsteadily, emerged from a bush, his tail wagging, to present Stefan Bojanowski with his find. His owner initially thought his old companion had dug up a harmless lump of metal. It was only when he retrieved it that he realised it was a rusty, Second World War grenade. Jake made his unwelcome find as... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528337/posts#comment Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:56:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517471/posts BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - A hand grenade being used instead of a ball in a game of catch exploded early on Saturday killing three youths in this Bosnian town, police and news agencies said. Two youths aged 19 and 20, one of them from neighboring Croatia, were killed instantly while a 20-year-old woman died on her way to hospital, police said. Her sister was slightly injured but two other youths suffered serious injuries. The blast occurred at 2:00 a.m. in the western town of Novi Grad at a place in the town center frequented by youngsters. Police said an... Oddly Enough - Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517471/posts#comment Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:52:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507960/posts CAMDEN, N.J. -- Two men were arrested Sunday after police said they tried to buy drugs with a grenade, Philadelphia television station WCAU reported. It happened Sunday afternoon in Camden, N.J. Authorities said the men were looking for drugs, but when they tried to pay with a grenade, the drug dealers called the police. The bomb squad was called in and safely removed the explosive, WCAU reported. Internet Broadcasting Systems http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507960/posts#comment Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507535/posts Arab Terrorist’s Wife Used Baby to Hide Grenade 02:32 Oct 23, '05 / 20 Tishrei 5766 By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Soldiers arrested a terrorist's wife who held her baby to hide a grenade. In the same house, troops found a suitcase of explosives. The IDF also killed four other terrorists who attacked them. Haruv battalion soldiers searched a house in a village near Shechem early Saturday after receiving reports that ammunition was hidden there, according to Lieutenant General Arik Chen. They discovered 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of explosives in a suitcase and arrested five terrorists. Noticing that Aziza Jawabra, the... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507535/posts#comment Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:11:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507431/posts NABLUS, West Bank - A Palestinian woman was found Saturday hiding a hand grenade under her baby during a West Bank arrest raid, an Israeli army officer said. But the woman, Aziza Jawabra, said the grenade was in the pocket of her jacket and she did not know it was there. The grenade discovery was made while soldiers searched a house in the town of Assira a-Shimaliya, north of Nablus. Soldiers arrested five fugitives, including Jawabra's husband, Lt. Col. Arik Chen told The Associated Press. The troops also found 22 pounds of explosives hidden in a suitcase in the house,... ap on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507431/posts#comment Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453657/posts TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgian police working with the FBI discovered dangerous substances in the house of the suspect who admitted throwing a live grenade toward President Bush at a rally in Tbilisi in May, officials said Wednesday. Sergo Dzagnidze, chief of the criminal police department at the Interior Ministry, told The Associated Press that 5 gallons of sulfuric acid, several boxes of mercury thermometers, a centrifuge, a microscope and other devices and dangerous chemicals were found in the cellar. The suspect, Vladimir Arutyunian, was detained last week after a police shootout. He was charged Tuesday with terrorism over the... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453657/posts#comment Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:04:20 GMT