1.   All of the bombs were removed and disabled by the New York Police Department bomb squad before they exploded.

2.   In each instance, the explosives were removed by a New York police bomb squad to a basement.

3.   The bomb squad also was summoned to examine one other package that proved to be harmless.

4.   The bomb squad took the device to the basement and disarmed it by inundating it with a water cannon.

5.   Officers from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps bomb squad were called in.

6.   The police had sealed off only part of the city centre while the bomb squad investigated.

7.   The bomb squad use remote control vehicles, or wheelbarrows, to investigate, and if necessary, disable the device with a controlled explosion.

8.   Trains between Darlington and Cleveland were stopped, the site evacuated and cordoned off and the Army bomb squad summoned from Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.

9.   Among the standing security features is an around-the-clock bomb squad, and bomb-sniffing dogs that walk the terminals and search airplanes before passengers board.