71.   British army bomb-disposal experts conducted two controlled explosions on the device, which turned out to be a hoax.

72.   Controlled explosions are used to disable detonators.

73.   Earlier Monday, British army explosives experts conducted a controlled explosion on a suspicious package left on the parade route, but it turned out to be a hoax.

74.   Emergency workers found a second bomb hours later and detonated it in a controlled explosion.

75.   He did not explain how they did this, but said they had not conducted a controlled explosion.

76.   Investigators there carried out several controlled explosions earlier in the week.

77.   Israeli military officials said that soldiers demolished an explosives lab in Bethlehem with a controlled explosion, but that it was not in the Manger Square area.

78.   Kleiman said the remains of the bomb were destroyed in a controlled explosion.

79.   Maj. Angela Herbert, spokeswoman for the International Security Assistance Force, said the first blast before dawn was a controlled explosion.

80.   No one was injured by the controlled explosion.