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The agency also wants access to a military site called Parchin, 18 miles south of Tehran,, which is suspected of conducting high-explosives testing.
U.N. Atomic Chief Boosts Efforts to Inspect Iran Jay Solomon 2011
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Then, in February, 1945, when Hitler and Germany were already headed to certain defeat, the United States Air Force and the RAF sent 1,300 heavy bombers over Dresden, dropping 3,900 tons of high-explosives that destroyed nearly the entire city center and killed approximately 250,000 civilians.
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Then, in February, 1945, when Hitler and Germany were already headed to certain defeat, the United States Air Force and the RAF sent 1,300 heavy bombers over Dresden, dropping 3,900 tons of high-explosives that destroyed nearly the entire city center and killed approximately 250,000 civilians.
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The fascist invasion of Iraq: •ÂReleased 380 TONS of high-explosives to hostiles. • Released highly radioactive Cesium and Strontium from the UNGUARDED Tuwaitha and eight other nuke sites previously under UN lockdown. •ÂPut a few pounds of those 380 tons of high-explosives together with a cannister of Cesium, in the back of a pickup truck, and drive it up a hill upwind from Tel Aviv.
Think Progress » Murtha is Right: Reagan’s Redeployment Made America Stronger 2006
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Reading demolitions manuals on the Internet does not automatically make a middle-class doctor a high-explosives expert, nor does watching YouTube videos of roadside bombings miraculously transform a pumped-up teenage radical into an urban guerrilla.
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Normally, the cutter charges are high-explosives strapped to a metal wedge on the side of the beam.
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The data included alleged evidence of the so-called Green Salt project, a secret uranium-processing program; high-explosives testing; and design of a reentry vehicle "which could have a military nuclear dimension," the IAEA says.
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/5/08: Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: A new article in a journal of environmental science describes chemical evidence that the World Trade Center towers were demolished not by fires but by high-explosives and thermal beam-cutter charges.'
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In an article published this week in the journal Environmentalist, chemical engineer Kevin Ryan collects evidence from EPA documents that suggest there was both Thermate and high-explosives in the debris from the WTC collapse.
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Bushco LIED the country into war, and committed TREASON when they armed the insurgency with 300 tons of high-explosives.
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