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  • Petards of Mass Destruction yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Petards of Mass Destruction'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Is it possible to convict a group of people of the highest possible crime simply by editing together public statements that they made while planning it?'

    Petards of Mass Destruction 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Hoisted on Their Own Petards'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'In raising Nuremberg as precedent for its desire to snuff three terrorists, they have reminded the world that, just sixty years ago, public officials guilty of war crimes were held accountable.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Hoisted on Their Own Petards 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Critical Video -- Petards of Mass Destruction'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = '"Leading to War" begins and ends with few words of text on the screen.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Critical Video -- Petards of Mass Destruction 2008

  • The British landing plan for each brigade front called for four LCTs carrying four DD tanks apiece to put these ashore at H5 minutes, followed at H-Hour by four LCTs carrying the specialized armour—flails, Crocodiles, Petards and the like—with sapper groups to begin work on the obstacles.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The British landing plan for each brigade front called for four LCTs carrying four DD tanks apiece to put these ashore at H5 minutes, followed at H-Hour by four LCTs carrying the specialized armour—flails, Crocodiles, Petards and the like—with sapper groups to begin work on the obstacles.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The British landing plan for each brigade front called for four LCTs carrying four DD tanks apiece to put these ashore at H5 minutes, followed at H-Hour by four LCTs carrying the specialized armour—flails, Crocodiles, Petards and the like—with sapper groups to begin work on the obstacles.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The British landing plan for each brigade front called for four LCTs carrying four DD tanks apiece to put these ashore at H5 minutes, followed at H-Hour by four LCTs carrying the specialized armour—flails, Crocodiles, Petards and the like—with sapper groups to begin work on the obstacles.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • (Petards are small bombs used for blowing in doors.)

    Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare John L. Spivak

  • Petards were used frequently in King William's War of the 1680's to force the gates of small German towns.

    Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

  • Shares in aim listed CCTV company Petards flew off the shelf after it said profit before

    WN.com - Articles related to Gordon Brown's plan for global bank tax 'a step closer' 2010

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