Word: blasted
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...upon a dazed and wounded man and helped him down seven flights of stairs to an emergency van that had pulled up outside. While many of the hundred or more officers and enlisted personnel in Building 131 had heard the shouting and headed into the stairwell, away from the blast, 19 airmen were killed and more than 50 were hospitalized...
...Arab newspaper received a phone call on Wednesday claiming the previously unknown "Legion of the Martyr Abdullah al-Huzaifi" was responsible for the bombing, and threatening more attacks if the foreign troops "occupying the holy Saudi land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound bomb. Even before the phone call claiming responsibility, suspicion had begun to settle on Islamic fundamentalists opposed to the U.S. presence in Saudi...
Although the blast blew apart three offices in the CFIA, the overall damage was minimal as no books were lost and no private files were destroyed...
Less than an hour after the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received an anonymous warning about the blast, a bomb exploded at 1:02 a.m. in the desk of U.S. Army Col. Donald Bletz, a fellow of the CFIA...
...have devised a number of ingenious plans that, given enough warning time, could protect Earth from a threatening NEO. Their defensive weapons of choice include long-distance missiles with conventional or, more likely, nuclear warheads that could be used either to nudge an asteroid into a safe orbit or blast it to smithereens...