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Pressure cooker fragment believed by the FBI to be part of one of the explosive devices used in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. A pressure cooker bomb is an improvised explosive device (IED) created by inserting explosive material into a pressure cooker and attaching a blasting cap into the cover of the cooker.
[51] [53] A pressure cooker lid was found on a nearby rooftop. [54] Both of the improvised explosive devices were pressure cooker bombs manufactured by the bombers. [55] [56] [57] Authorities confirmed that the brothers used bomb-making instructions found in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine.
Later that day, a homemade pressure cooker bomb went off in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. A second pressure cooker bomb was discovered four blocks away. Late on September 18, multiple bombs were discovered at the train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of these bombs detonated early the next day.
A bomb-making workshop discovered by Israeli Defense Forces in 2002, containing a large collection of nuts, bolts, and ball bearings to be used as shrapnel. Antipersonnel IEDs typically also contain fragmentation-generating objects such as nails, ball bearings or even small rocks to cause wounds at greater distances than blast pressure alone could.
Dzhokhar "Jahar" Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing.On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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A student nurse allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside the maternity ward of a Leeds hospital has appeared in court accused of planning a terrorist attack at an RAF base.
A plot to build a pressure cooker bomb in New York City [76] was arranged by Asia Siddiqui, a Pakistani American, [77] and Noelle Velentzas. Siddiqui was in contact with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, while Velentzas seemed to support the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The two had researched bomb-making and purchased bomb ...