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...They're able to detect even individual bombmakers' ways of doing things, of placing wires, of placing fuses, how they put the whole thing together. There aren't lots of people in the world who do this well." At the top of Phillips' suspect list are Middle Eastern and Balkan terrorists. Says Phillips: "The car bomb is very much the signature of these groups...
Investigators will look at every possible motive, from Balkan nationalism to employee dissatisfaction at the Trade Center. "You can't take just one track, because you come to dead ends and you've lost time," says an FBI official. "You have to investigate multiple tracks at the same time." Eventually, with luck, the pieces start coming together. "Some of it is misinformation, some of it is disinformation," says Jenkins, "and some small portion is information. You have to sort all that out. In the ideal situation, these paths begin to converge. You get a chain of physical evidence that takes...
...BALKAN FACTIONS...
...callers who took responsibility for the bombing, at least one said he spoke for an organization calling itself the Serbian Liberation Front. Another claimed to represent Croatian militants. Still another called in the name of Bosnian Muslims. The possibility of a Balkan connection was made more tantalizing by the fact that a bomb was defused on Friday near the U.S. embassy in the Croatian capital of Zagreb...
Most of the Balkan nationalities have a history of marrying politics with violence. It was the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo by a Serbian youth that set off World War I. And according to a French expert on the Balkans, Xavier Raufer, the terrorist techniques that the Palestinians and the Lebanese made notorious in the past two decades -- bombings, kidnappings, hijackings -- were virtually invented by Balkan groups. "These guys make Abu Nidal look like Mother Teresa," he says...