1.   All contained nails.

2.   Devices in all three bombings contained nails.

3.   Eyewitnesses told reporters on Friday night that the bomb at the nightclub seemed to contain nails.

4.   In two other incidents, he said, the victims were trying to use a brick and a piece of wood containing nails to strike officers.

5.   That bomb also contained nails.

6.   It said the cell members had walked around the mall carrying bags containing nails in order to test security at the site.

7.   One of the bombs, containing nails, only partially detonated at a Paris outdoor market two days after the men were videotaped.

8.   The homemade device contained nails and other bits of metal, the source said.

9.   Subsequent less serious attacks which have rocked France over the summer months have also involved crude devices made from gas canisters containing nails.