Pressure cooker bomb

The bomb can be triggered using a simple electronic device such as a digital watch, garage door opener, cell phone, pager, kitchen timer, or alarm clock.

[6] From 2002–04, pressure cooker bombs were widely used in terror and IED attacks in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan.

[7] In 2003, a terrorist from Chechnya named Abdullah, carrying a pressure cooker bomb detonated explosives and killed six people before being arrested near Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.

[8] In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to US agencies about pressure cookers being converted to IEDs.

[13][14] Inspire's goal is to encourage "lone wolf" Jihadis to attack what they view as the enemies of Jihad, including the United States and its allies.

[19] In July 2011, Naser Jason Abdo, a U.S. Army private at Fort Hood, Texas, who took pressure cooker bomb-making tips from the Al-Qaeda magazine article, was arrested for planning to blow up a restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers.

[17] In Pakistan, in March 2010, six employees of World Vision International were killed by a remotely detonated pressure cooker bomb.

[17][21] In October 2012, French police found a makeshift pressure cooker with bomb-making materials near Paris as part of an investigation into an attack on a kosher grocery store.

[25] On Canada Day 2013, pressure cooker bombs failed to explode at the Parliament Building in Victoria, British Columbia.