for the attack on kabul airport yesterday. how worried are there about future attacks? they are concerned. there is incredible intelligence what isis trying to carry out additional attacks in kabul. against kabul airport. they are concerned about the threat of suicide attacks, by an individual. they are worried about a potential vehicle-bourne explosive device. getting on the airport and detonating, and worried about in many in afghanistan of rockets. they are worried about someone firing rockets on the runway, stopping the evacuation effort. and in a worst case scenario, taking out a civilian airliner.
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A policeman died on Tuesday after mistakenly detonating a grenade in Ebonyi State, the state police command has confirmed.
The spokesperson of the Ebonyi State Police Command, Loveth Odah disclosed this during a briefing on the incident in Abakaliki.
She identified the police personnel as Idi Aminu, noting that the victim was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The police reaction comes amid reports that a suicide bomber was blown to pieces after a suicide vest he was wearing exploded on his body.
The incident was said to have happened in Afikpo town of Afikpo North Local Government Area of the state with sources saying the incident happened around 12 noon.
devices were capable of detonating? it doesn t in the long run, because it s still terrorism. a lot of people we ve heard folks trying to analyze this over the last 72 hours, and there seemed to be a narrative, either he has a master bomb maker or complete dolt. i would argue somewhere in between is possible. he could be someone who has researches and has sophistication, but doesn t take it all the way to creating a device that s going to explode and kill. the reason i say it doesn t matter in the long run here, and obviously we re grateful there were no injuries or loss of life. but this is still terrorism. his goal appears to have been to instill fear, to, you know, cause anxiety for political reasons. that is terrorism. so whether it went off or not, he is still facing potential serious charges in the long run, jake. so we ve been digging into the suspect s social media accounts, filled with political attacks, many directed at those he eventually allegedly targeted with these
going to be reported over the next 24 to 48 hours. this someone of these reports right now. hopefully it turns out to be nothing. but thank goodness people are hyper vigilant about this type of stuff. we were interviewing a pastor about love thy neighbor and we have to interrupt because of a bomb scare. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. thank you very much for joining us. we ll keep an eye on what s going on from the building not far from where i m sitting. we ll bring you anything significant as we get a bigger picture. there is more breaking news tonight in a terror attack still being investigated as we speak. today, the fbi said they re treating the devices that were sent as real, and not hoax devices. we still don t know if they were capable of detonating, but we do know that whoever sent them is still on the loose. we re learning far more tonight about the pieces of this plot, and we ll bring you all of it. we begin, though, keeping them
authorities looking for leads, trying to figure out if the person who sent these is from the south florida area, so, certainly person or persons. person or persons. and i can tell you, anderson, authorities tonight are pretty optimistic. earlier today, yesterday, we weren t getting the same kind of optimism from them, but there seems to have been some developments in this investigation that has authorities thinking that, you know, they may be making some significant moves here, that they may have a break here. and certainly now they know where some of these packages came through. the fbi and authorities have kept a pretty tight lid on what they know about the devices themselves, were there actually explosives inside, were they capable of detonating? we don t really know much about the details of the devices. no. and usually we tend to know more about these devices. but for whatever reason, in this particular case, the fbi and nypd have not been releasing a lot of information.