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  • Detonating upon impact in the Rose Garden, it would surely kill everyone who was within fifty feet of its point of impact, and it would burn, mutilate, blunt-force traumatize and otherwise perforate the many others outside the immediate kill zone.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Detonating upon impact in the Rose Garden, it would surely kill everyone who was within fifty feet of its point of impact, and it would burn, mutilate, blunt-force traumatize and otherwise perforate the many others outside the immediate kill zone.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Detonating explosives immediately after reports of heavy gunfire poured in from surrounding buildings on the army who were there.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009 2009

  • Detonating bombs that kill the innocent has come to be regarded as the quintessential terrorist tactic.

    The Spirit Upwelling Linda Boroff 2009

  • Detonating 1000 pound bombs in Protestant housing estates, and cowardly targeting innocent Protestants living in lonely and remote border areas for execution and other grisly Protestant deaths at the hands of these bigots were not an accident either.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Detonating explosive vests in street cafes, crossing borders to kidnap soldiers, and firing unguided missiles into Israeli cities are their modus operandi.

    Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’ 2006

  • Detonating explosive vests in street cafes, crossing borders to kidnap soldiers, and firing unguided missiles into Israeli cities are their modus operandi.

    Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’ 2006

  • Detonating a White Phosphorous shell in a confined area (like firing into a building) will indeed cause an effect comparable to the use of lung agent poison gases for those inside who do not or can not flee, with the additional consequence of setting the room (s) alight.

    Think Progress » Did Chalabi’s Visit Compromise the FBI Investigation? 2005

  • Detonating a suspicious device, this happened about five hours ago.

    CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2007 2007

  • Detonating a dirty bomb was one of the possibilities he had researched in Pakistan, where he had allegedly spent time over a few years meeting and training with al-Qaeda operatives.

    Enemy Americans 2004

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