Word: blasted
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Still, the search had to start somewhere. So late in the afternoon of , Sunday, Feb. 28 -- a bare two days after the blast that killed at least five people and injured more than 1,000 in the most destructive terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil -- 10 investigators began picking their way down a ramp leading to what had been the garage's second parking level, shining flashlights on the mangled remains of cars and trucks that had been blown to bits. "Hey, look at this," said an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Joseph Hanlin...
When they started down the ramp, the probers -- eight from ATF, two from the New York City police bomb squad -- knew what they were searching for. The blast had been so tremendous that the explosives necessary to produce it could not have been crammed into an ordinary car. So the investigators were looking for pieces of a van or truck so badly burned and twisted as to indicate that they had come from a vehicle at or near the center of the blast. The piece of metal they found looked just that heavily damaged, and the trained eyes...
...have watched Salameh for a while in the hope that he would lead them to other suspects. But news was starting to leak; by Wednesday night the FBI knew that New York Newsday was about to report that a rented van stolen in New Jersey was involved in the blast. James Fox, head of / the New York City FBI office, who coordinated much of the investigation, says his office considered asking Newsday to hold the story but decided not to because other papers and radio and TV stations had pieces of the story and the agency could not stop...
Perhaps the most unsettling possibility is that the hand behind the blast will never reveal itself and never be discovered by anyone else. Though two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted in the downing of Pan Am 103, they have never been brought to trial, and no nation or group ever came forward to take responsibility. Just blocks from the World Trade Center, the walls of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. are still scarred from the effects of a bomb that was hidden in a horse-drawn wagon on Sept. 16, 1920. When it exploded into a lunchtime crowd, 40 people...
...Serbs would be blamed. But the Serbs have their own reason for staging the bombing -- or for doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists threatened to bomb Western's Europe's nuclear facilities if its governments intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia...