Reporting from Washington — New airport security procedures that have stirred the emotions of air travelers — full-body scans and aggressive pat-downs — were largely designed to detect an explosive ...

CBS News has confirmed that the explosive found in crude devices on planes in the United Kingdom and Dubai was powerful agent known as PETN - a favorite of terrorists in many attacks and attempts in ...

The lethal chemical compound PETN, favoured by al-Qaida, is detectable by state-of-the-art airport scanners, but closing a "security loophole" by expanding their use to all freight cargo would be ...

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(CNN)-- The Christmas Day airline terror alert has brought focus on PETN, a substance till now largely unknown to the public. The white powder is said to be central ...

PETN, the explosive that nearly doomed Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day, is a white powder that can deliver powerful blasts in quantities as small as tenths or hundredths of a ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (CBS/AP) A port in Morehead City, N.C. has been closed and people were urged to leave the area Tuesday after nine containers holding the highly explosive material PETN were ...

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, the explosive found in two bombs hidden in printer cartridges that were being shipped via jets from Yemen to the United States, is a hallmark of earlier ...

A vendor shows walkie-talkie devices without batteries at an electronic store in Sidon BEIRUT (Reuters) -The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this ...

Feds find trove of explosive materials, including devastating PETN, at IVF clinic bomber’s house: ‘Full-blown bomb lab’ The damaged front of the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic stands ...

(CNN)-- Investigators believe two explosive packages found at airports in Dubai and the United Kingdom on Friday were assembled by the same bomb-maker responsible for the device used in last year's ...