Word: blasting
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...opponent, we learned there’s no holding back on anybody,” Ruddock said. “We didn’t consciously hold back on Friday, but we learned that from here on out for the rest of the season we have to go full blast every game...
...member, lost friends and colleagues on the night of Feb. 7, when a 200-kg car bomb planted by Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas ripped through the club's 11 stories, killing 35 people - including six children at a piñata party - and injuring 173. The El Nogal blast was the most devastating attack of the rebels' new urban terror campaign and the first to hit the capital's élite. Londoño and Colombian authorities hope the attack will prompt the world to change tactics too, and regard Colombia's guerrillas as terrorists. Reason: police...
...found in the wreckage of the fire fight. Other violence last week showed a weakening of President Hamid Karzai's central government. A bomb attack on a bus in southern Afghanistan killed at least 18 civilians. Afghan authorities blame members of the former Taliban and al-Qaeda for the blast, and possibly a ruthless veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who seems to be consolidating power among the insurgents. In Kabul, police arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the heavily fortified U.S. embassy, which is used by the international peacekeeping...
...means another minute's worth of traffic backing up in the capital's sclerotic arteries. The hell with haggling, it's still less than $3. "Okay," I concede, "100 baht. And please, drive carefully." Wiset flicks a switch and the two-stroke engine explodes into life with a flatulent blast, filling the immediate vicinity with evil blue fumes...
...Police had previously identified an Indonesian named Iqbal as the likely carrier of the smaller bomb, which ripped through Paddy's Irish Pub 21 seconds before the main blast outside the Sari Club across the street. But investigators now believe he was responsible for detonating the bigger bomb outside the Sari Club, and not for the smaller blast. "He could have been sitting there in the van with people pouring out of the Sari Club, even staring in the windows, when he set it off," says a source close to the investigation...