package bomb
IPA: pˈækʌdʒbɑm
noun
- a thin explosive device inside an envelope or package and detonated when opened
Examples of "package-bomb" in Sentences
- The editors wrote that the package-bomb operation took three months to plan.
- Christmas Day plane bombing last December and the package-bomb plot uncovered in October.
- Associated Press Antiterrorism police in Athens escort a package-bomb suspect Tuesday to a prosecutor's office.
- But now, Mr. al-Fayfi's alleged role in uncovering the package-bomb plot could boost international confidence in the Saudi tactics.
- Christmas Day plane bombing last December and the package-bomb plot uncovered in October, and score a propaganda victory against Mr. Saleh and other U.S. allies in the Gulf.
- SAN'A, Yemen — The source of a tip that alerted security agencies to a package-bomb plot late last week was a Saudi national and former Guant á namo Bay inmate who had joined al Qaeda, a Yemeni official said Monday.
- The package-bomb attempt "bolsters the argument that there is a continuing and imminent threat," said Robert Chesney, a University of Texas law professor who served on a Justice Department task force on terror-detainee issues.
- The Yemen Plot The source of a tip that alerted security agencies around the world to the package-bomb plot late last week was Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guant á namo Bay inmate, a Yemeni security official said.
- SAN'A, Yemen — The source of a tip that alerted security agencies around the world to the package-bomb plot late last week was Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guant á namo Bay inmate, a Yemeni security official said Monday.
- SAN'A, Yemen — The government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh has ordered 3,000 more troops, including members of U. S.-trained counterterrorism units, to support southern offensives against the al Qaeda affiliate suspected in last week's foiled package-bomb plot, according to a Yemeni security official.