Word: blasting
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TUNISIA Nineteen people visiting the site of North Africa's oldest synagogue died April 11 when a natural-gas truck exploded. Witnesses reported seeing the driver get out before the blast, and investigators have since found numerous potential ties to al-Qaeda, including a suspect's phone call to Germany an hour before the attack...
...Bush administration's talk of reviving some form of Middle East peace process, the Petah Tikvah suicide bombing was a sharp reality check. The blast that killed two Israelis Monday and sent Israeli tanks back into Jenin suggested that Israel and the Palestinians are back at Square 1. And Square 1 is not simply the situation of two months ago, or even two years ago. The two sides have managed to rewind the clock by a decade, all the way back to before the Oslo agreement...
...today. To at least a small extent, the horrors of last fall seem to have arisen from people knowing dangerously little about the far side of the world: Islamic radicals tilting against an America they associate only with its economic and political might (or the pop-cultural blast of its images) and cruelly ignoring the human reality that is the true America; and, later on, Washington responding through a President who had seldom been abroad, and a CIA that by some accounts did not have a single Pashtu speaker in Afghanistan. Caught in the middle, as ever, were those ordinary...
...verdict was read, Cherry slumped back in his chair. He had been convicted of plotting the blast and planting the bomb that killed Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11. But Cherry remained unrepentant. "I have done nothing," he told the court after the verdict. "For years Doug Jones and some others have been telling lies about me. I don't know why I'm having to go to jail...
...Addie Mae Collins' sister, Junie Collins Peavy, who was in the church sanctuary at the time of the blast, wiped tears after the verdict. "We just want it all to be over. It's been such a long time...