These would hold the bomb components in place, and were mainly made from stainless steel for strength and compactness.

Later he was operations officer for the final testing and assembly of the bomb components on Tinian.

One senior European intelligence official confirmed that several finished bombs and a variety of bomb components had been found in the car.

They face charges ranging from damaging public property and possession of bomb components to attempted murder.

This was brought on by the inability of experts to find bomb components after four days of rigorous investigation.

All I can tell you is it involves bomb components and national security.

He is being held without bail in a county jail in Helena, charged only with illegally possessing bomb components.

On Tuesday, officials displayed replicas of the bomb components in all three incidents.

Commissioner Kelly said the bomb components were all "locally available materials."

But critics assert that nearly all the bomb components could have been produced in Iraq or somewhere else in the region.