Word: blasting
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...waited for a bus to pull up and detonated the explosives strapped to her body. Within minutes Jerusalem's streets filled with the familiar, sickening sights and sounds that accompany every Palestinian suicide bombing: blood and screams and sirens. As ambulances came for the dead and the injured--the blast killed six and wounded 80--a woman's severed head rolled along the asphalt...
...destiny, but seeing as it happened after Sept. 11 destiny seems less plausible." Maurizio Vitali, who worked in the regional government offices on the Pirelli building's second floor, was thinking of the World Trade Center as he and his colleagues filed down the stairs after hearing a "huge blast" and seeing glass and debris raining down from above. "It's hard to know what was in the pilot's mind, but I know what we were thinking." The reinforced cement building withstood the impact and was never at risk of collapsing. Also, several of the upper floors were being...
...much practice did it take to plan a human sacrifice? How many mornings had the killers sat outside that federal building, making judgments about where and when to park their bomb, which recipe to use, how to make sure that the full force of the blast hit the building square in its belly? And when the day finally came, the truck loaded and the time set, did they wait and watch the children go in, hand in hand with their parents, before they drove away...
...blast put the Eagles ahead 7-2. BC padded that lead in the seventh, when they strung together five hits off Brown and Harvard junior Brendan Reed...
...water in a large bowl and put the mixture out to dry on roofs or balconies. Then they use a coffee grinder to break it down into powder. At this point, the material is packed into small bags, or preferably pipes, which break apart and become shrapnel in a blast. The 22-year-old who detonated a bomb outside the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv last June lifted his hands as he blew himself up, eyewitnesses reported, apparently so that his arms wouldn't obstruct shrapnel flying off the belt around his waist. One bombmaker on Israel's wanted list...