21.   Witnesses said he had set off small bombs at his home, and officials said they found fertilizer and fuel that could be used to make explosives.

22.   Prosecutors said that inside the car, authorities found the watches, fertilizer, and other materials that could use to make explosives.

23.   A third person, Li Yongxin, was convicted of making the explosives and sentenced to six years in prison, the Evening News said.

24.   A separatist group that wanted to create a northern republic had plans to make explosives, news agencies reported Friday.

25.   According to the account the monk provided the group, he learned to make explosives while breaking rocks in a government-ordered communal labor project.

26.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cares had argued unsuccessfully that Nichols should remain in jail on charges of making small explosives on his Michigan farm.

27.   But Clair did explain that Moukharbal had been found with a pen that fires bullets and with chemicals that could be used to make explosives.

28.   But defense witnesses testified that the acid and gunpowder seized from the defendants were unfit to make explosives.

29.   Defense lawyer Robert Elsey said James Nichols made explosives to clear land at his Decker, Michigan, farm, and Borman was sympathetic.

30.   Defense lawyer Robert Elsey said James Nichols made explosives to clear land at his farm, and Borman was sympathetic.