And the area remains awash with bodies and booby traps.
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" Jones then chimed in, "So they are basically booby traps.
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The use of animals as booby traps is not new.
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Roadside bombs targeted Humvees, and booby traps littered the neighborhood.
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Roadside bombs targeted Humvees, and booby traps littered the neighborhood.
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You have a larger selection of enemy attacks and booby traps.
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An elaborate tomb filled with valuable trinkets and comical booby-traps?
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And booby traps and unexploded ordnance could take years to clear.
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Step two is to study the system and set up booby traps.
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So she set up booby traps around where they will come through.
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Coalition forces will also likely face suicide bombs, car bombs and booby traps.
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The area is being cleared of homemade bombs and booby traps, he said.
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Coalition forces will also likely face suicide bombings, car bombs and booby traps.
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Orchards and fields full of thistles hiding ISIS mines and booby traps surrounded us.
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They suffered wounds from gunfire, land mines, mortar rounds, car bombings and booby-traps.
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His soldiers fought slowly from house to house, impeded by snipers and booby traps.
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Despite the risk of unexploded bombs and booby-traps, 60,000 people have gone back.
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We arrived just as special operations teams combed the area for explosives and booby traps.
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Slower still will be efforts to clear the booby traps and bombs they've left behind.
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The booby traps utilized steel traps with steel teeth commonly used to trap wild animals.
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The blast occurred as bomb technicians were attempting to defuse booby traps, the statement said.
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In recaptured towns, they face the threat of booby traps left by ISIS's skilled bombmakers.
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ISIS has deployed its full repertoire: snipers, booby traps, a web of tunnels for ambushes.
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Beyond the ditch is a desiccated stretch of desert now mostly cleared of booby traps.
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Tens of thousands of homes remain destroyed, and cities are rigged with explosive booby traps.
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Troops in Palmyra are now dismantling explosive booby traps planted by IS, the station reported.
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In real life, however, what effect would these booby traps have on the human body?
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Booby traps and powerful monsters lurk in every corner of this woman's Baroque-themed house.
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Ninety percent of all sabotage is based on some sort of demolitions, or booby traps.
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They faced Islamic State booby traps, gunmen and, perhaps scariest of all, suicide car bombers.
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"Thousands," he says when asked how many mines and booby traps might be in this district.
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Towns have been devastated by coalition bombing, militia artillery and the booby-traps of retreating jihadists.
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Unfortunately, though, one open window negates all the padlocks, bolts, and booby traps money can buy.
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The mosque grounds were off limits as the insurgents are suspected to have planted booby traps.
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The last occupant was an enemy combatant so it could have booby traps, tripwires, weapons caches.
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It is hardly a fair match-up; Kevin devises an obstacle course of sadistic booby traps.
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Perhaps men would set off booby traps, with a leg lost here, a foot maimed there.
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The soldiers have begun to search houses as they clear the area of militants and booby traps.
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They had risked all to escape from their homes, through gunfire and possible ISIS-laid booby traps.
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But they can't move back because of the danger of booby traps and destruction of basic services.
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"We are clearing streets and buildings of booby-traps and roadside bombs," a federal police officer said.
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At times the weapons were exceptionally cruel — booby-traps that blew up homes, heaters packed with explosives.
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"The military engineering unit is working to defuse booby traps inside the city," said Operations Room spokesman Graisia.
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Clearing IS fighters from surrounding villages, stuffed with booby traps and linked by tunnels, is difficult, dangerous work.
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But there are still many dangers, including mines, booby-traps and improvised explosive devices left behind by ISIS.
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Lara faces a treacherous waterfall, dispatches gun-toting henchmen, solves Myst-like mechanized puzzles, and dodges booby traps.
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The militants been countering the offensive with suicide car and motorbike bombs, snipers, booby-traps and mortar fire.
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A Reuters reporter at the scene said they also came across booby traps using grenades and rocket shells.
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Soon after its deployment in Vietnam, Charlie Company began to take heavy casualties from booby traps and snipers.
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According to Kurdish officials, they put up no fight at all, other than planting bombs and booby traps.
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The police blew the house's door off its frame, to safeguard against booby traps, as shocked neighbors watched.
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The militants have been countering the offensive with suicide car and motorbike bombs, snipers, booby-traps and mortar fire.
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There are no booby traps in the ancient temple where the Orb, which contains the power stone, is held.
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Islamic State is using suicide car and motorbike bombs, booby traps and sniper and mortar fire against the troops.
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They left behind booby traps that continue to kill people in the suburbs of Aleppo on a daily basis.
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The main battle area in downtown Marawi remains off limits, pending the removal of booby traps and unexploded ordnance.
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Suicide bombs, IED booby traps and car bombs are common tactics employed by the group to stall advancing forces.
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The strikes targeted an industrial area where Islamic State is thought to be making booby traps and car bombs.
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BOOBY TRAPS Now headed by Dicko's brother Jafar, Ansarul Islam was sanctioned by the United States in February 2018.
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The eight-bit music bleeped through its intro, and little Mario began his pixelated sidestep through the booby traps.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The trade-war ceasefire between the United States and China leaves many booby traps for investors.
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Parts of Nineveh, however, remain littered with explosives and booby traps that forces must clear, Pentagon officials have said.
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And they must clear houses rigged with explosive booby traps so civilians can return and services can be restored.
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As they walked over the shattered glass of the hotel's front doors, Medic worried about a new threat: booby traps.
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Clearing those tunnels and making sure there are no booby traps or hidden suicide bombers will be a laborious task.
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SDF fighters, including Kurds, Arabs and Christians, pressed forward on the ground, braving booby traps, car bombs and suicide bombers.
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They tossed gunpowder wrapped tightly in masking tape into buildings, to set off any booby traps left behind by ISIS.
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Those that try to flee will be forced to navigate a city ringed with booby traps, snipers and hidden landmines.
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They are trying to slow the advance of Iraqi forces by laying booby traps and using suicide bombers and snipers.
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Commanders have warned it will take time to clear the regained areas of booby traps and explosives left by militants.
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Queer readers will relate to how Eddy navigates social booby traps erected by men needing to affirm their own masculinity.
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One of the support roles is clearing areas retaken from ISIS of booby traps and other explosives, according to Mattis.
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Islamic State is now dug in and keeping back Misrata forces with snipers and booby-traps in one remaining district.
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Indonesian media reported those blasts were controlled explosions carried out by police to clear the area of any booby traps.
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Mr. Maserli developed a skill for dismantling booby traps, which the Islamic State often left behind when they were defeated.
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The Vietnam War story is a tale of combat: walking point, ambushes, booby traps, seeing friends die, narrowly escaping death.
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" He is similarly dismissive of the lingering danger of booby traps and unexploded munitions: "We hardly find IEDs any more.
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It has taken six months to clear hundreds of unexploded bombs and booby traps and for volunteers to sift the debris.
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Iraqi forces have faced fierce clashes with ISIS militants in Mosul, as well as improvised explosive devices, booby traps and snipers.
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TMZ broke the story ... Bruce maniacally evaded arrest from cops for years -- from changing his appearance to setting up booby traps.
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Entire areas are considered no-go zones because they have yet to be searched for booby traps left by the jihadists.
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There are thousands of abandoned homes across the city that the group can use for deploying fighters and setting booby traps.
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They could flatten a 60-metre wide patch of jungle and destroy mines and other booby traps without leaving a crater.
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Wearing a prosthetic limb, Berwari returned as a colonel in the Kurdish Peshmerga, neutralizing booby traps left by a retreating ISIS.
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Gina opens the door and leads Piscatella back to the bunker, where he falls into one of Frieda's many booby traps.
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In Mosul, the Iraqi military pushed into a city fortified with booby traps, moats, snipers and dump trucks packed with explosives.
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Some readers have most likely walked patrols in Southeast Asia and encountered Viet Cong booby traps made with dud American submunitions.
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In 21, Daniel Velie approached the edges of the Taushiro settlement, making his way past the booby traps and barking dogs.
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The house is in disarray -- Salaam thinks there could be several booby traps hidden among the disturbed furniture and clothes strewn around.
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People are rebuilding their lives there...Conditions in western Mosul are very difficult...Families are worried about booby-traps, security and services.
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But it also revealed a deeper fantasy: the ability to set violent booby-traps with literally zero consequences for yourself or others.
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But commanders have warned it will take time to clear the regained areas of booby traps and explosives left behind by militants.
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It's got everything: Joe Pesci, Rube Goldbergian booby traps, and, if you think about it hard enough, some troubling right-wing undertones.
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Other US officials say overhead imagery shows ISIS has laid booby traps and improvised explosive devices, as it has in other battles.
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Controlled explosions rang out around the Karkamis border crossing as Turkish security forces removed mines and booby traps left by Islamic State.
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Currently, the United States military is clearing unexploded ordnance, mines and other booby traps from Raqqa just to make it minimally habitable.
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Four years later, the region is still dangerous, littered with land mines and booby traps left by the militants as they retreated.
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The remainder of our tour of duty was back to the grind of routine patrols, dodging snipers, booby traps and brief firefights.
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The Islamic State has constructed concrete blast walls, dug trenches, and rigged booby traps that will slow efforts to penetrate the city.
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A barber or laundress on base or a peasant working in the fields during the day might lay booby traps at night.
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That is what Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil) did when the "booby traps" of the real world were removed.
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The Hollywood legend also wrote and directed "Body Heat," a 1981 erotic thriller chock full of affairs, booby-traps, arson, and legal intrigue.
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Although vastly outnumbered, the jihadists have used snipers, booby traps, improvised landmines and hundreds of suicide-bombers to bog down Iraqi security forces.
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Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said Free Syrian Army fighters are trying to clear the town of mines, booby traps and IEDs.
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As when attacked in other parts of its self-declared "caliphate", it used many booby traps as a tactic against its advancing foes.
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Roads into the city are lined with warning signs alerting travelers to booby traps and unexploded ordnance that encircles much of the city.
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Engineering units were sweeping the areas taken in the Yarmouk basin region for mines and booby traps, it reported, citing a military source.
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The side roads and fields are inaccessible, as teams sweep for the land mines, bombs and booby traps that ISIS inevitably left behind.
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SDF officials, focused on capturing Raqqa city, say the advances are proceeding cautiously as Islamic State uses snipers, car bombs and booby traps.
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Many more people will die in the next battle, as ISIS defends the city fiercely and leaves behind a sea of booby traps.
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But the unseen hunters, using bullets, grenades, booby traps and arrows, quickly cull the deplorable herd in explosions of blood, brains and viscera.
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Engineering units were searching streets and buildings in those districts for mines and booby traps left by Islamic State, the military source said.
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He said Iraqi forces were searching for them as engineering teams worked to clear streets and buildings of roadside bombs and booby traps.
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They get their Macaulay Culkin on and set up booby traps, douse the place in gasoline, and kit out their baseball bat with nails.
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We saw the television crew installing all those spooky booby traps around the house, so who's to say that anything that happens isn't orchestrated?
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But computer security experts say it's possible Russians or other malicious actors have sown undetected booby traps in the highly decentralized U.S. voting landscape.
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According to the Military Times, Cairo, a Belgian Malinois, was trained to stand guard, control crowds, sniff for bombs, and look for booby traps.
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Families would go all-out with horrifying Halloween decor and booby traps, then invite trick-or-treaters in for a dose of contained mischief.
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With months to prepare, ISIS has dug bomb shelters and tunnels, planted mines and booby traps, and can use civilian hostages as human shields.
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It follows three groups of men and women as they wander in the cold, dark water, fearful of German booby traps and electrical wires.
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Islamic State militants have placed booby traps across the city of Mosul, dug tunnels and recruited children as spies in anticipation of the offensive.
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Verdict: In the scheme of risks one runs trying to dig up legendary treasure — pirates, curses, booby traps — police detainment doesn't sound so bad.
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The area has remained off limits until this month, when the military said it had cleared it of hazards like booby traps and unexploded ordnance.
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"Security forces are working to clean Akkas from landmines and booby-traps that might be left by Daesh," said Colonel Saad Hardan from Anbar police.
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He said his forces were combing the al-Ghazalani, al-Jawasq and al-Tayaran neighborhoods in search of fighters, improvised explosive devices and booby traps.
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The LNA's opponents used bombs and booby traps, some of which are yet to be cleared so that residents can return and reconstruction work begin.
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Unless you've been holed up working on Goonies booby traps, you've probably heard about Netflix's amazing new sci-fi Gen X nostalgia-fest Stranger Things.
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They are carrying out regular suicide vehicle bombings and witnesses have told CNN that they are rigging bridges and laying booby traps inside the city.
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On top of the fires and the potential for inhaling toxic smoke, the area is still being cleared of Islamic State booby traps and landmines.
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Further along the track, Iraqi federal police check storage sheds for booby traps left by the Sunni Muslim militants, known to their opponents as "Daesh".
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The militant group commonly deployed terror tactics against the encroaching coalition -- using suicide bombs, IED booby traps and car bombs to fight against Iraqi forces.
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The battlefield, located on top of a sheer 400-foot cliff, was fortified with a deadly network of Japanese machine gun nests and booby traps.
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The side roads and fields are inaccessible, as teams sweep for the landmines, bombs and booby traps that ISIS is expected to have left behind.
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The new tax reform plans have plenty of booby traps for high individual income earners, including a de facto fourth tax bracket of 39.6 percent.
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Among those killed were commanders in charge of booby traps, of Arab suicide fighters and child recruitment, the statement added, without identifying them by name.
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In Afghanistan and Iraq, American troops have found themselves mired in counterinsurgency campaigns amid the civilian populations, getting killed by low-tech improvised booby traps.
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It takes time for both you and the robovac to learn what the potential booby traps in your house will be for the roving machine.
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The Kurdish forces told the original inhabitants they would not be allowed to return for the time being because of booby traps and other safety concerns.
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Islamic State fighters, holding out in the Old City, are surrounded in the northwest and are using booby traps, sniper and mortar fire to defend themselves.
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Back at the frontline headquarters of the Zeravani Special Forces, Brigadier General Bajat Mzuri tells us just how deadly ISIS IEDs and booby-traps can be.
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But the stigma continued and is perhaps best exemplified in the World War II military posters warning soldiers to beware of "Booby Traps" when fighting abroad.
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Giant concrete T walls have also been laid down on their sides and intermingled with booby traps and bombs to impede vehicles moving into the city.
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The story has a happy ending, though: after using peanut butter (the food), flour, security cameras, and elaborate booby traps, Peanut Butter (the hamster) was recovered.
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Much of the city was blown to rubble in 154 days of air strikes and artillery by the military, and booby traps laid by the rebels.
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But in their desperation to return home, many villagers have been killed or maimed by mines and booby traps left behind by fighters as they withdrew.
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Law officers "will now be able to begin the process of clearing booby traps and processing the crime scene," Harney County Court said in a statement.
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She lives in isolation surrounded by booby traps, only venturing out for special family occasions and having no real visitors except investigative journalists — if they're paying.
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The conflict will play to the group's strengths: suicide bombers, whom Hindi said were being reserved and positioned for that battle, car bombs and booby traps.
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The dog, Mali, was recognized for helping to sniff out Taliban militants and booby traps during a mission by Afghan and British Special Forces in 2012.
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Booby traps, land mines and a militant counterstrike during a fierce sandstorm after the campaign began in September have knocked the coalition back on its heels.
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Fearing booby traps, they moved carefully through buildings, peering into cupboards and behind couches, always careful not to move anything that could trigger a makeshift explosive.
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Researchers at ESET believe the Ukrainian power authorities may have been infected by a Microsoft Office documents that contained "booby-traps" hidden within the macro-functions.
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During years of steady retreats, Islamic State has honed its tactics of street fighting - sheltering among civilians, digging tunnels and laying innumerable mines and booby traps.
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He was guided past hundreds of booby traps and improvised explosive devices to homes that had housed ISIS fighters and a huge collection of bomb-making equipment.
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When an FBI agent and three bomb technicians showed up to check it out, they reportedly found a horde of deadly booby traps all over the property.
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As well as the suicide attacks, the Islamic State militants have slowed the army's advance with snipers, mortar fire, roadside bombs and booby traps inside abandoned buildings.
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October 24, 2016 Today, meet up with an explosives expert in Iraq to find out the kinds of risks troops take when disarming bombs and booby traps.
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The ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim fighters are countering the offensive using booby traps, suicide motorcycle attacks, sniper and mortar fire and, occasionally, shells filled with toxic gas.
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They refused because contacts at home told them the area was filled with booby-traps left by retreating Islamic State fighters and their houses had been destroyed.
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In mosques, the militants asked residents to support them as they confronted "the invaders," and they placed gas tankers in roads to use as defensive booby traps.
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An advance by the Iraqi army and Shi'ite paramilitary groups into al-'Ayadiya was being slowed by snipers, booby-traps and roadside bombs, military officials told Reuters.
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The months-old, American-backed offensive to drive ISIS from Syria has been hindered by booby traps, land mines and a militant counterattack during a fierce sandstorm.
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Instead, it's more like an elaborate digital Lego set that allows players to build whatever they like, designing their own castles, skyscrapers, underground bunkers and booby traps.
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Three months into a battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State, Iraqi troops continue to face booby traps, gunmen and suicide car bombers.
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Within ten days of Manbij's liberation, booby-traps and mines planted by the retreating jihadists had killed 29 people, according to the Syrian Institute for Justice, an NGO.
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Reuters' John Davison reports from the deserted village of Badush in Iraq, showing the devastation, booby traps and other signs of the recent presence of Islamic State militants.
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In Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi, ISIS's ongoing use of booby traps, IEDs, and land mines forced local officials to delay civilian returns six months after the city's liberation.
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Engineering units were searching streets and buildings in Deir al-Zor for mines and booby traps left behind by Islamic State fighters, a Syrian military source told Reuters.
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ISIS, meanwhile, used civilians as human shields, and turned the city into a "death trap," by closing exit routes and littering it with snipers, landmines and booby traps.
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Even the mansion itself, at first seemingly inexplicable, is explained and characterized—booby traps and curios, it turns out, were simply a passion of the house's eccentric owner.
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Every now and then a sniper targeted us, or a forward infantry unit fell into a small-arms ambush; we'd patch light wounds from bullets or booby traps.
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"Tight alleyways with booby traps, civilians and ISIS fighters around every corner make the Iraqi security force's advance extremely challenging," coalition spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon said.
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According to a Reuters report, the terrorists have also rigged the city with booby traps, wired its five bridges with explosives, and prepared car bombs and suicide attackers.
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The protesters told authorities they left behind booby traps but did not say whether the trip wires and other devices would trigger explosions, a law enforcement official told Reuters.
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Nor, though, could they spot the booby traps and mines the IS fighters had laid as they fled, hidden in the doorways of houses and buried in nearby fields.
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On January 15th 30 schools reopened in the east of the city after being cleared of booby traps by Iraqi security forces, allowing 7503,000 children to start classes again.
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But there are no illusions about the task ahead -- the abandoned houses rigged with booby traps, the tunnels weaving under densely packed neighborhoods -- above all, those devastating suicide bombs.
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ISIS has also used booby traps, homemade bombs and snipers to slow the sweeping gains made by Iraqi forces in the open fields surrounding Mosul into grinding urban warfare.
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Nine civilians and five Shura Council fighters were killed by mines and booby traps when they entered the areas abandoned by Islamic state, Addabaa and a medical source said.
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But the advance remains arduous as IS fighters are dug in the middle of civilians, using mortar fire, snipers, booby traps and suicide bombers to defend their last redoubt.
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Residents are being told to stay away from Raqqa for now, until landmines and booby traps -- found in many of the towns and cities ISIS has fled -- are removed.
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It was not possible to stray too far from the main road to visit abandoned homes because the area was not yet fully cleared of IEDs and booby traps.
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The officers slowly encircled a barn at the back of the property, with their hands clenched tightly around their weapons and their eyes scanning incessantly for potential booby-traps.
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"If you want to kill the bad guys, kill them in the open, not hunkered down in fortified positions, with booby traps strewn all around them," said General Scales.
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If you're wondering what Macaulay Culkin is up to this holiday season, the answer is not creating a series of convoluted booby traps to trip up two would-be burglars.
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CNN correspondents in the region say it would likely be days before the whole neighborhood is recaptured, as forces will have to clear buildings of potential booby traps and mines.
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"Especially when you have adversaries like ISIS who are trying to set booby traps to, in fact, harm the soldiers when they come in just to do the room clearing."
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Their job is to fight alongside these commandos while locating and defusing booby traps and improvised bombs, a critically important task in wars where those are the enemy's primary weapons.
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It's the surveillance drones that have been the most useful to ISIS, allowing it to conduct reconnaissance flights to gather critical intel on enemy locations, booby traps, and so on.
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"Civilians in Mosul could face multiple threats from cross-fire, sniper attacks, booby traps and explosive remnants of war," a U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs update said.
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Eastern military forces have entered al-Fatayeh, an area south of Derna from which Islamic State withdrew, but troops and civilians have suffered heavy casualties from mines and booby traps.
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Many homes have hot spots—a weird door jamb, a lumpy rug—that can cause trouble; it's also worth cleaning up robot booby traps, like ribbons and pieces of string.
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A CNN team on the ground saw hundreds fleeing on foot from the direction of Mosul and the village of Gogjali on the outskirts, risking ISIS' booby traps and gunfire.
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He thinks everyone is vulnerable to the underlying mental booby traps these tests put out there: The idea that there are foods, healthy foods, that are secretly making you sick.
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But much of Mosul was heavily damaged, including its famed al-Nuri mosque, and vast parts remain littered with unexploded bombs and booby-traps left by fleeing Islamic State fighters.
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Occasionally over the top — but let's face it, so was Homer — Hughes's story proceeds at a breakneck cinematic pace, full of booby traps, double agents and arias promising gruesome revenge.
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Mali, a Belgian Malinois badly injured by shrapnel, was awarded the Dickin Medal, Britain's highest award for animal bravery, for helping to sniff out Taliban militants and their booby traps.
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The military has launched its final push to retake Marawi, and is coming under heavy fire from gunmen as troops try to secure buildings and navigate through mines and booby-traps.
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Under attack, Islamic State has pulled reinforcements from al-Mayadin and relied on its usual tactics of booby traps, mines and sudden raids, the commander in the pro-Assad alliance said.
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Explosions could be heard throughout the city on Friday as the Syrian army detonated mines that had been left behind by the jihadists as booby traps, according to the Associated Press.
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Our sources say Bruce rigged up places he was living with booby traps that included propane tanks tied to doors ... and used cameras to create homemade surveillance systems around his properties.
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But the ultra-hardline group is holding civilian hostages in the hospital and stadium and using sniper fire, booby traps and tunnels that emerge behind SDF lines to slow the battle.
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So far, according to defense officials around the world, all deployed weapons systems have a human in the loop, with the exception of low-tech booby traps such as land mines.
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Coalition aircraft and artillery have been bombarding selected targets in the west, included workshops in the eastern industrial zone where Islamic State is thought to build car bombs and booby traps.
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And even after the Islamic State's defeat, the Iraqi forces face the arduous task of clearing the city of improvised explosive devices and booby traps left behind by the Islamic State.
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This subtext got a lot less subtextual in "Return of the Jedi," in which the occupiers' superweapons are thwarted by the guerrilla tactics and crude booby-traps of a pretechnological people.
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"We do know there are still IEDs and booby traps in and among the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas," said Col.
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IS had time to construct a multilayered defence based on booby traps and a network of tunnels that allowed shooters and suicide-bombers to move around the town unseen by surveillance drones.
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Reward programs seem stale, mobile apps remain mired in early-2000s UX paradigms and, all too often, critical financial decisions (and their expensive associated fees) are hidden like booby-traps for users.
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Tiger Force was created in 1965 as an elite unit to defeat an enemy that operated in underground tunnels, set deadly booby traps and disappeared into the jungle as they were counterattacked.
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Delegations to the United Nations have begun discussions on regulating lethal autonomous weapon systems under an existing Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which governs things ranging from booby traps to blinding lasers.
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But in fact, as dangerous as that work was, most of our casualties were aboveground, when we engaged in the other part of our job: finding and disarming mines and booby traps.
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Even the mausoleum of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, which is guarded by his famous Terracotta Army, is rumored to contain a series of booby traps intended to ward off potential robbers.
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Your goal is to build forts and other structures — from log cabin watchtowers to fully weaponized castles — that can survive fortnightly zombie onslaughts while being outfitted with booby traps and other devices.
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When agents finally arrived at the entrance to the house — after disarming many more booby traps — they threw an explosive charge through the front door to take out anything that might be waiting.
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"And I have never, nor would I ever, put the kind of trapdoors and booby traps in my music to make the listener feel dumb," Clark told me in response to Marcus's theories.
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The final phase will see the introduction of other Iraqi forces, including police, to help in mopping-up operations, defuse booby traps and begin the task of restoring governance to the traumatised inhabitants.
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"Based on the way the explosions took place, from what police told me, there was a series of explosions, which may indicate some sort of rigged booby traps," Freda said to the newspaper.
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ISIS are believed to have an elaborate network of booby-traps throughout the city to greet Iraqi forces, as well as a network of tunnels -- some big enough to ride a motorcycle through.
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That was also a concern in Surt, where pro-government militias said there was an unknown number of Islamic State fighters still in the city, along with thousands of booby traps and bombs.
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"We certainly know that there will be significant challenges that they'll face as they go through and back clear and remove that city of booby traps, IEDs," Davis said, referring to improvised bombs.
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The heavy casualties that come with urban warfare — especially snipers and booby traps that impose casualties without a visible enemy to shoot back at — make it more difficult to keep bloodlust under control.
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But before that can happen, and before residents can return to their homes, the city must be cleared of the many mines and explosive booby traps that the jihadists planted before their defeat.
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"The UN is deeply worried about the safety of returning families and the widespread infestation of many neighbourhoods with unexploded devices and booby traps," Lise Grande, UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, told Reuters.
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In contrast to the booby traps and makeshift bombs left by the Islamic State fighters, the unexploded American ordnance is much easier to find — once the Pentagon gives removal experts the grid coordinates.
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Colonel Dillon said the going had been slow in Mosul because of efforts to minimize civilian casualties, and because of the Islamic State's determination to use human shields, booby traps and suicide bombers.
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The militants are using suicide car bombers, snipers and booby traps to counter the offensive waged by the 100,000-strong force of Iraqi troops, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Iranian-trained Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups.
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Tullaban, which used to be on IS's front line, is now being cleared of landmines and booby traps by the Mines Advisory Group, a British charity dedicated to making post-conflict zones safe again.
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The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that up to 1.5 million people could be affected, with civilians in Mosul facing potential threats from sniper attacks, booby traps, crossfire and explosives.
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"The reality there is that the clearing of corpses of Daesh fighters has been made much more difficult by IEDs and booby traps," he said, referring to the Islamic State by its Arabic acronym.
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Members of Iraq's counterterrorism service were the lead fighters in seizing eastern Mosul, and they faced ferocious resistance from Islamic State defenders who had planted booby traps and sent suicide bombers to stop them.
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The roll we saw him carrying last week that looked suspiciously like a small body turns out to be a blanket full of guns, plus his house is rigged with all manner of booby traps.
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"Sabri and Souq al-Hout were stormed today from several directions and control was taken over several points, and numerous booby traps and mines were dismantled during the advance," said LNA commander Fadel al-Hassi.
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What the Israelis have termed "targeted preventions" by snipers, booby-traps, helicopters, F-16 fighter jets and increasingly by armed drones were at first often criticised by Western governments for violating international and humanitarian law.
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The army says it is nearing victory, but hostilities will have to be followed by a lengthy cleanup operation – unearthing and disarming unexploded ordnance, and scouring for possible booby traps – before residents can go home.
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Fayez Seraj also told Reuters in an interview that the battle against Islamic State militants in their former stronghold of Sirte was in its last stages, although bombings and booby traps still posed a challenge.
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But they have been facing fierce resistance from snipers, car bombs and booby-traps as Islamic State fighters dig in for house-to-house fighting in the last residential districts held by the militant group.
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Separately, army spokesman Major-General Restituto Padilla said Marawi was clear of militants who had been hiding in the ruins of the pummeled city, but unexploded munitions and booby traps had yet to be cleared.
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To defend against the onslaught of potential sign-trashers, one man in Indiana has set up an elaborate array of booby traps to keep his Trump sign proudly displayed in his front yard, ABC reports.
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But on the evidence of my one meal there, it is still messy around the edges because he is now doing it in New York, a city filled with booby traps for the unwary newcomer.
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Although the military estimated that ISIS has only about 2,000 to 2,13 fighters in the Hajin area, General Roberson said they had had plenty of time to build elaborate defenses, including tunnels and booby-traps.
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We experienced numerous small firefights and booby traps; often we mused that if the enemy didn't get us, surely the treacherous terrain, excessive heat or the swarms of irritating red ants and mosquitoes certainly would.
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This portion of the wall and the harrowing section known as the "death strip" — with its booby traps, armed guards, towers and trenches — allow visitors to see the most preserved swath of the remaining wall complex.
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As they head for the regional capital, Maiduguri, the soldiers scan the road for bombs or booby-traps, while shooting at any possible cover - abandoned petrol stations, burned out farmhouses, trees, even clumps of elephant grass.
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Although not a critical success, the film, in which the child star Macaulay Culkin set a series of booby traps when thieves attempt to burgle his family home, became a beloved icon of '90s pop culture.
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There were "no clear safe routes out of Mosul", leaving civilians in danger of getting caught in the cross fire or being victims of booby traps or landmines, the International Rescue Committee said in a statement.
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The archaeologists are being taught to spot booby traps while excavating, as well as learning digital techniques like geophysical surveys, remote sensing, and how to use a multi-station - equipment that helps with mapping and measurements.
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As they take back territory from the Islamic State, the American-backed Syrian fighters must also sweep any buildings for suicide attackers and booby traps that have been left behind — a process that can take days.
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ISIS was infamous for planting homemade landmines and setting booby traps everywhere from homes and streets to sewage pipes, on corpses and even inside children's toys to ensure their legacy permeated long after they were squeezed out.
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Bomb factories, village command posts: Islamic State's rural fight Reuters' John Davison reports from the deserted village of Badush in Iraq, showing the devastation, booby traps and other signs of the recent presence of Islamic State militants.
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About half of it is now charred concrete and skeletons of buildings, the effects of 154 days of air strikes and artillery by the military, and booby traps the rebels laid everywhere to keep them at bay.
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As a presidential candidate in 2012, he introduced a 85033 percent flat income tax to replace the byzantine federal taxation scheme that contains loopholes and booby traps for all but the most sophisticated and well-advised taxpayers.
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Bond helps repel the attack and takes M to Skyfall Lodge, his family estate in the Scottish Highlands, where Bond and the groundskeeper (Albert Finney) prep Home Alone–style booby traps for Silva and his approaching army.
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Motorola's gratuitous use of glue makes the device tricky to open in the first place, and even then there are plenty of flex cables that are easy to accidentally snap, creating "booby traps" for would-be repairers.
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Civilians we met report daily threats to their safety: unexploded bombs -- booby traps left by ISIS designed to kill and maim those attempting to flee -- are riddled across the city and pose an ongoing threat to innocent civilians.
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In a home in a still heavily mined village, MAG workers taught children to recognize unexploded ordnance and booby traps, which could take almost any form – a rigged fridge, a piece of pipe by the road, a toy.
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After a six-month campaign of street-by-street fighting backed by American airstrikes, Libyan forces have retaken most of Surt, where the Islamic State is holding out with snipers, booby traps and car bombs, Mr. Issa said.
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Defense officials say it could take until January before rebuilding can start, with the heart of the city littered with unexploded bombs and booby traps and buildings on the brink of collapse after months of government air strikes.
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A CNN team on the ground saw hundreds of civilians fleeing on foot from the direction of Mosul and the village of Gogjali on the outskirts, risking ISIS' booby traps and gunfire to get themselves and their families out.
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Their advance will likely grind on for some time as they contend with IS tactics that have included riddling the city with booby-traps, setting off suicide car bombs, stationing snipers on rooftops and using civilians as human shields.
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The Iraqi special forces in the area of eastern Mosul, who allowed a group of New York Times journalists to travel with them, were going door-to-door in a hunt for weapons, booby traps and Islamic State fighters.
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Since then, I've spent a lot of time researching the history of explosive booby traps and cluster weapons, because each poses a fatal threat to combatants and civilians alike long after the wars they were used in have ended.
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De-miners and their supervisors in Iraq frequently trade reports and details of other Islamic State-made booby traps, among them dolls, stuffed animals and plastic trucks, as well as teapots, fire extinguishers, flashlights and copies of the Quran.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities are forcing thousands of displaced people to return to their home areas too soon despite the risk of death from booby-traps or acts of vigilantism, a report by refugee aid groups said on Wednesday.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - As military deminers warily picked their way through streets wrecked by war in Benghazi, a loud blast rang out - a familiar sound in the Libyan city, areas of which are riddled with deadly explosives and booby traps.
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Now 26, she leads a 15-woman unit hunting down the hardline group in its global headquarters Raqqa, speeding through streets once controlled by the militants in a pick-up truck as fellow fighters comb through ruined buildings for booby traps.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Maoist rebels in India killed 10 police after luring them into a hilly, forested area sewn with booby traps and setting off the bombs, officials said on Tuesday, in what was one of the deadliest attacks this year.
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They are using mortars, sniper fire, booby traps and suicide car bombs to fight the offensive carried out by a 100,000-strong force made up of Iraqi armed forces, regional Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Iranian-trained Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups.
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Many leaders are believed to have fled to Deir al-Zor where the SDF and Syrian government forces are pressing competing offensives against IS. Other tactics the jihadists were using to slow SDF advances include laying booby traps, Tarhams said.
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ERBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have placed booby traps across the city of Mosul, dug tunnels and recruited children as spies in anticipation of an offensive to dislodge the jihadists from their Iraqi stronghold, Iraqis and U.S. officials said.
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AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces are forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas in the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, exposing them to death from booby-traps or acts of vigilantism, refugees and aid workers say.
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Slowed down by snipers, booby traps, and car bombs, the mixed Arab-Kurdish fighters of the SDF find themselves fighting an enemy that has returned to its insurgent roots, forcing them to struggle for every house and street in the city.
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The Makey Makey Bit joins six other electronic components in the kit, including a sound trigger, a servo, and an audible buzzer that can be used to set up booby traps, or alarms, to let kids know when someone has invaded their space.
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While no Rube Goldberg booby-traps are involved, the itinerary includes the option to add an express pass to the top of the Empire State Building, Wollman Rink tickets, and a four-hour limousine ride that follows a map from the film.
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QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank (Reuters) - Ghost churches on the western bank of the Jordan River, near where Jesus is believed to have been baptised, could be reopened to pilgrims as part of a project to remove booby-traps and land mines.
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US officials have said it's not clear at this point how many civilians or ISIS fighters are still inside Raqqa but overhead imagery has confirmed ISIS has laid booby traps and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as it has done in other areas.
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Sure, it's not over; the fight for Mosul is likely to be long and bloody with a messy post-battle stew of booby traps and ethnic conflict, and victory could lead to a step-up in ISIS terror attacks in Europe and elsewhere.
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Civilians are "coming under fire from all sides," the report said, citing survivors' accounts, as they find themselves trapped between ISIS booby traps and snipers, and airstrikes and artillery strikes by the US-led coalition against ISIS and Russian-backed Syrian government forces.
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American commanders have warned that Iraqi and Kurdish forces will face a city laced with explosive booby traps, oil-filled trenches and underground tunnels to allow Islamic State fighters to pop up and carry out guerrilla-style attacks against the government forces.
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It said the routes created by the airstrikes allowed SDF fighters to bypass booby traps and car bombs that ISIS had prepared in breaks in the wall, although the jihadi group still put up heavy resistance as the fighters entered their final redoubt.
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"We do still know there are still IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and booby traps in and amongst the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas," said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition.
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What isn't in the museum is spread out across roughly 1,000 square miles of the country: anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, explosive remnants of war and booby traps, according to a recent quarterly report by the Mine Action Program of Afghanistan.
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Louie is an unlikely world traveler, with his dislike of the "aggressive little ruses and booby traps" of European menus; by the end of the novel, little has changed in that regard, and a tuna sandwich remains his ideal of culinary bliss.
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The ISIS militants who seized Mosul in June 2014 had plenty of time to prepare for the long-promised assault, building an extensive network of tunnels and carefully planted booby traps throughout the city that were initially successful in slowing the advance of government forces.
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What was not in doubt was that the repair crews could not reach the area because of mines, booby traps and fighting between the Taliban and a large Afghan National Army force that was sent last month to reclaim the area from insurgent control.
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Andrews also explained how she "booby traps" her rooms to see if someone has entered her room without her knowledge: "I put a piece of paper down by the door so when I leave if someone comes into the room I can tell," she testified.
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But, I don't think we see the momentum for a treaty in the CCW [the 1983 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which limits the use of mines, booby traps, incendiary weapons, blinding lasers, and others] vein from the UN. It's just not on the cards.
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The Communists responded in kind: 1967 saw the war changing from Viet Cong "punji" stakes of sharpened bamboo and booby traps to North Vietnamese infantry battalions backed by heavy Russian artillery firing from across the Demilitarized Zone, one of the war's more ironic oxymorons.
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As often as not in "1917," those images exist side-by-side with hyper-real sequences that would be right at home in any action movie or aforementioned video game, where protagonists dodge booby traps, collapsing buildings and other obstacles to gain extra life.
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Up to 350 militants are estimated by the Iraqi military to be besieged in the Old City, dug in among civilians in crumbling houses and making extensive use of booby traps, suicide bombers and sniper fire to slow down the advance of Iraqi troops.
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According to the Guardian, that real estate lawyer has since sent a separate team of ex-military experts into the property to comb it for other booby traps, but there's no word on whether they found any deadly washing machines or killer ironing boards or whatever.
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Two Syrian rebels interviewed in Karkamis, which lies just across the border from Jarabulus, said that Turkish soldiers were mainly helping to defuse and dismantle the numerous bombs and booby-traps that the Islamic State, which fled the city without much of a fight, had left behind.
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Intelligence gathering and the cooperation of the civilian population will be key for advancing troops to avoid booby traps and to find weapons caches placed across the city as part of Islamic State's urban warfare plan, said Baghdad-based analyst and former army general Jasim al-Bahadli.
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Read: The ISIS legacy in Tikrit -- booby traps, IEDs and fear Now estimated to have only a third of its one-time population of 300,000, the city was the scene of two major battles during the Iraq War, witnessing some of the fiercest fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents.
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"The reality is that if the institution is not designed around students, there are a series of booby traps that are unintentionally set that would trip up any student," said Bridget Burns, the executive director of the consortium, the University Innovation Alliance, who noted that first-generation students face many such traps.
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Humanitarian groups and ordnance removal specialists on the ground in West Mosul have reported that the city is littered with booby traps and improvised explosive devices left by Islamic State fighters, in addition to dozens, and possibly hundreds, of so-called dud bombs that were dropped by United States warplanes but never exploded.
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Your letters: Carson: I'm gonna go ahead and strike baby bottles from consideration here, because many of you do NOT have kids, and you don't need me griping endlessly about having to wash Dr. Brown's bottles and about sports bottles and about all the other domestic booby traps that await you in the future.
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My intent wasn't to sugarcoat burglary, but to write about burglary as it is legally defined, which is this really strange use of architecture that doesn't by any means imply acts of violence against homeowners—or for that matter against burglars—because there are quite a few stories about people laying booby traps to kill burglars.
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There were dungeons aplenty — deep, multilevel labyrinths outfitted with false doors and booby traps and elaborate menageries of monsters: ghouls, gorgons, hydras, mummies, minotaurs, basilisks, gnomes, orcs, chimeras, hobgoblins, centaurs (which could "attack twice, once as a man and once as a medium horse") and griffons ("the most prized of steeds ... fond of horse flesh above all other foods").
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Unlike the novelist Nancy Mitford's codification of social division according to a series of U — for "upper class" — and non-U words (looking glass and not mirror; sofa, not couch) that functioned mostly as booby traps for unwitting members of an aspirational middle class, Mr. Haslam's lists are so baldly and so risibly snobbish as to be a hoot.
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Hell, Dan is so rugged that chickens roam his living room, and anxious homeowners will wish to study his master class in how to make your own booby traps—get a jar of vegetables, tip out the contents, fill it with kerosene, add a soupçon of rusty nails and glass shards, and then lay it tenderly in a trench.
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There are reports that hundreds of families are being used by ISIS as human shields in the center of Falluja; that men and boys who refuse to fight for ISIS are being executed; and that civilians have been killed in heavy shelling, according to the U.N. And many experts believe that ISIS has booby traps, snipers, IEDs and other deadly surprises waiting.
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The site buzzes with the tension of the old web, each link charged with a small dose of mystery and danger — as I learned when I clicked one of the site's booby traps reserved for spambots and ended up blocking the entire New York Times building from using the site, prompting a brief panic in nerdier corners of the newsroom.
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Now, in the latest example of animal valor, a Belgian Malinois dog — a sort of golden German shepherd — that was badly injured by shrapnel in Afghanistan has been awarded the Dickin Medal, Britain's highest award for animal bravery, for helping to sniff out Taliban militants and their booby traps during a mission by Afghan and British Special Forces in Afghanistan in 2012.
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"We are trying to keep families inside their houses and, after we secure their block, we will evacuate them through safe routes," Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, senior CTS commander in Mosul, told Iraqi state TV. The militants are moving stealthily in the Old City's maze of alleyways and narrow streets, through holes dug between houses, fighting back the advancing troops with sniper and mortar fire, booby traps and suicide bombers.
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They will stumble through booby traps planted by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, just like everybody else: Short contracts, an escalating cap, a flush marketplace, a system that increases payment as players age (with a supermax offer that's atomic enough to make a team feel like it's enduring nuclear fallout), and kidney punches from the luxury tax that may factor into the loss of key contributors across the organization are all designed to make sure a dynasty like this never happens again.
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The investigation is proceeding at four sites, from the 32nd-floor suite in the Mandalay Bay Resort hotel that served as Paddock's sniper's perch, to the nearby outdoor concert field that held some 22,000 people when the gunshots rang out, to the shooter's retirement community home in nearby Mesquite, and finally to another residence belonging to Paddock in Reno, where a SWAT team stood by cautiously on Monday before entering, because "we want to make sure there is no booby traps," the sheriff said.
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