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Pittsburgh was treated to an impressive show the week of the recent G20 conference. A nice assortment of military choppers of various types and missions, along with odder aircraft difficult both to identify and explain. Both police and the National Guard were out in force, with downtown nearly sealed off. None of this hardware was used against the "3,000 - 4,000" (more like a few hundred) anarchist demonstrators when they turned their righteous wrath on a dozen Starbucks and a Whole Foods store. No serious confrontation was expected and none occurred. Because all of it - the Guard troops, the...

FORT GORDON, Ga., Oct. 8, 2009 – A sudden accident may have cost Army Staff Sgt. Luis Elias his hand, but it hasn't stripped him of his positive attitude or impacted his plans for the future. Army Staff Sgt. Luis Elias performs a push-up. The soldier is receiving treatment at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit in Augusta, Ga. U.S. Army photo by Charmain Z. Brackett  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. "Hopefully, in about a month or so, I'll be back to being a drill sergeant," said Elias, who is receiving treatment at the Charlie...

March 7, 2007 — A former U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with allegedly passing military secrets about U.S. Navy movements through waters in the Middle East to al Qaeda-related Web sites during the spring of 2001, just months after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen. Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, allegedly passed information about U.S. Navy warship movements in the Straits of Hormuz in April 2001 while he was a member of the Navy. The information passed along contained details about vulnerabilites of U.S. vessels — including susceptibility to small boat attacks by terrorists. Abujihaad...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2009 – U.S. forces detained an Iraqi man who attacked a U.S. convoy with a grenade Aug. 7 in Iraq’s Kirkuk province, military officials reported. The convoy was traveling from a police station to a base outside the city when the assailant attacked the convoy in the northern town of Hawijah. Soldiers responded with small-arms fire, wounding the attacker. Police transported the man to a Kirkuk hospital. Two civilians suffered minor injuries and were treated at a local hospital. A U.S. explosive ordnance team was called in when the grenade didn’t detonate. Iraqi police are investigating the...

Grand jury indicts London physician on grenade charge BY LINDA SATTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Dr. Randeep Mann of Pope County was formally indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Little Rock on a single charge of possessing 98 unregistered grenades. Last month, Mann, 50, was arrested by federal agents after Pope County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call from public works employees for the city of London who had stumbled upon a partially buried plastic bag in a wooded area. Inside the bag, buried 875 feet from Mann’s home, was a military canister containing the explosives, which were designed to...

Saturday morning a live WWII era hand grenade was found amid piles of debris in the backyard of a central Austin, Texas residence. Area neighbors found the grenade while removing the remnants of a collapsed garage as part of a community outreach/ assistance program for elderly property owners. Local authorities were notified, the area blocked off by police, some nearby residents evacuated and the Austin Police Department bomb squad brought in to identify, contain and dispose of the munition. The grenade was safely detonated by the APD bomb squad in a nearby empty lot at 50th Street and Harmon Avenue...

Grenades used in three recent attacks in Monterrey, Mexico, and Pharr, Texas, all originated from the same lot delivered from South Korea... That the grenade used in the third attack reportedly came from Mexico indicates that in addition to the well-known path of weapons flowing from the United States into Mexico, arms also are flowing from Mexico into the United States. The first of the three attacks targeted the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. In the second incident, again in Monterrey, gunmen attacked a local TV station on Jan. 12 in an attempt to intimidate the news agency into cutting...

CARACAS, Venezuela – The chief of a leading Venezuelan opposition party says a grenade has exploded outside its Caracas headquarters. Democratic Action leader Henry Ramos says the blast shattered windows and damaged the facade of the party offices late Saturday. No one was hurt.

This is an amazing video of a couple of Israeli officers who unwittingly stumble across two Hamas terrorists. There is some gun play and one Hamas goon throws a grenade at the officers, and misses. When he throws a second grenade, one of the officers, instead of running away, runs toward the guy, picks him up, and uses the terrorist's body as a shield against the blast. Result . . . two dead terrorists, no dead Israelis. More at the link . . .

Gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire outside a television news station during its evening broadcast in Mexico on Tuesday and left a message warning journalists from reporting on drug war violence. Gunmen hurled the grenade at the regional studios of Mexico's top broadcaster Grupo Televisa in the northern city of Monterrey during the evening news show, the station's reporters said live on the air. No one was hurt in the attack, believed to be the first against a TV station in Mexico, and in which the gunmen sprayed one of the complex's outside doors with bullets. The grenade exploded...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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/

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...

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...

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...

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!

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.

<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>

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

The man is believed to between 25 and 35 years old. TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Authorities in Georgia have released a photograph of a man suspected of throwing a grenade at a podium where U.S. President George W. Bush was speaking this May. The grenade failed to explode and no one was hurt. Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili also on Monday announced a reward of 150,000 lari ($80,000; €66,300) for information leading to the identification of the dark-haired man in dark glasses pictured in the photo. Georgian and U.S. authorities believe he is the man who threw a grenade in the...

KHABAROVSK, July 18 (Itar-Tass) - Two residents of the Jewish Autonomous Region were killed on Monday by a blast of a hand grenade, Tass learnt at the information center of the chief administration of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Far Eastern Federal District. The explosion thundered this morning at the verandah of a two-apartment house in the village of Babstovo. The 25-year-old owner of one of the flats who had been convicted in the past for a murder and an armed attack, as well as his buddy died of numerous fragmentation wounds. Both were jobless. It was established during...

By Curt Woodward ASSOCIATED PRESS 8:22 p.m. June 21, 2005 SEATTLE – A man killed by police after he brandished a grenade in the federal courthouse here had grown increasingly upset and unstable recently as years of frustration with the child custody system mounted, friends said Tuesday. Perry L. Manley, 52, was shot to death by police Monday in the courthouse's public lobby. Authorities said Manley had tried to bypass courthouse security while clutching a hand grenade, later found to be inactive. Police and federal agents evacuated the downtown building and cordoned off the surrounding streets during the standoff with...

Authorities Examine Courthouse Security POSTED: 12:18 pm PDT June 21, 2005 UPDATED: 12:56 pm PDT June 21, 2005 SEATTLE -- Officials with the FBI and Seattle Police Department were meeting on Tuesday to review security policies following Monday's fatal shooting of a man in the lobby of the new federal courthouse. U.S. Marshal Eric Robertson said training paid off when the man walked into the lobby with a grenade. The man was shot and killed but no one else was hurt, and the building was quickly evacuated. The man, Perry Manley, 52, of Seattle, was apparently bitter after a divorce...

In his 20 years in the military, Lt. Col. Tim Gardipee of Missoula has served combat tours in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. But Gardipee says one of the most difficult and emotionally trying duties he has been assigned by the U.S. Army came last month at Fort Bragg, N.C. The Army Reserve officer was selected from a pool of officers at Fort Bragg to serve on the court-martial jury in the trial of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who was convicted of the premeditated murder of two fellow American soldiers and wounding of 14 others, at just past midnight March 23, 2003,...

TBILISI, Georgia -- A grenade hurled into a crowd during last week's speech by U.S. President George W. Bush in the Georgian capital was live and considered a threat, though it failed to explode because of a malfunction, the FBI said yesterday. Georgian officials initially said the Soviet-era grenade was inactive. But FBI agent Bryan Paarmann said that the grenade, wrapped in a dark handkerchief, fell about 30 metres from the podium where Bush was speaking.

No One Hurt Secret Service Says Device Did Not Go Off May 10, 2005 -- A grenade was thrown within 100 feet of the stage where President Bush was giving a speech today in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, local authorities told the U.S. Secret Service. The device did not go off and no one was hurt, the Secret Service said. Local police told the Secret Service the device was thrown as Bush spoke in Freedom Square in Tblisi, the Georgian capital. The device hit someone and fell to the ground about 100 feet away from the stage, the...

Thrown within 100 feet of Bush on stage. Pin was pulled. Georgian securiy got it. Thats all from NBC news.

ATK XM25 25mm Grenade Launcher for Future Infantry. Will it fly? Posted on Friday, May 06 @ 12:36:05 PDT by davidc by David Cranedavid@defensereview.com DefenseReview plans to report in detail on the ATK XM25 air-burst assault weapon in an upcoming article. Before we do that, however, we're going to do a little light coverage in this one: The XM25 is an offshoot of the U.S. Army/JSSAP/Picatinny Arsenal, NJ XM29/OICW. It's no secret that we here at DefRev weren't big fans of this system. The XM29/OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) combined a semi-auto 20mm grenade multiple grenade launcher (MGL)--utilizing high-explosive...

Iraq: an Imam, encircled by forces of safety, killed by one of its grenades BAQUBA (Iraq) - an Imam of Baquba, in the North-East of Baghdad, whose mosque was encircled by Iraqi and American forces of safety, died in the explosion of its own grenade whereas it tried to be defended, affirmed an Iraqi military source with AFP. "A 14h30 (18h30 GMT), of the police force Iraqi and American soldiers excavated the district of Mafraq and they tried to penetrate in mosque Al-Aqsa of sheik Abdel Razzak", affirmed the General Adel Maoulane. According to him, the Imam sunnite left...

Apr. 20, 2005 - The father of an Army sergeant accused of killing two officers at the start of the Iraq war urged the military Wednesday to investigate religious and racial harassment he said his son faced from fellow soliders before he unleashed the grenade and rifle attack. John Akbar's statement to The Associated Press titled "Concerned Father Seeks Justice For Loved Son" came as testimony wrapped up in Sgt. Hasan Akbar's court-martial on murder charges that carry a possible death penalty. Jurors were to return Thursday for closing arguments and the start of deliberations. The elder Akbar said his...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Two live hand grenades were found today at Atlanta's airport in the luggage of a soldier returning from Iraq, halting operations at the international terminal for about half an hour. Airport spokeswoman Felicia Browder says the soldier was aware of the grenades, and he tried to alert the Transportation Security Agency but it was too late. The bags were already being screened. Browder said there was no evacuation of the international terminal, known as E-Concourse, but people were kept back a safe distance until an Atlanta police bomb unit removed the grenades. She said a handful of...

San Francisco International Airport authorities said Thursday they'll tighten rules for law enforcement exercises in a shuttered terminal after firefighters left behind three mock grenades and a replica handgun during a recent training. SFO spokesman Mike McCarron said there was no security risk posed by the simulated weapons, because a janitor found them Wednesday in a locked room in the former international terminal that is closed to the public. San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Pete Howes said members of a hazardous material team accidentally left behind the devices last month while training on how to handle suspicious devices discovered at...

A bunch of US Soliders tape a Marine dropping a grenade into a washing machine and letting it blow. http://www.big-boys.com/articles/gernadewash.html

MILFORD, Kan. - Geary County Sheriff Jim Jensen is again concerned after a deputy discovered a pair of smoke-grenade launchers in the same area near Milford Lake where five military machine guns turned up two weeks ago. ... "These weapons may appear unserviceable, but if a proper gunsmith gets a hold of them or if somebody else wants to they could probably put them back to working condition," Jensen said.