Word: blasts
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...friends, family members and neighbors with knowledge or suspicions that could help the investigation. "Even the accused Unabomber had family members who suspected him, and he was living alone in a shack in Montana," says Damon Camp, a criminologist at Georgia State University. At the same time, since the blast occurred in a densely occupied park filled with camera-toting tourists, the FBI is convinced that someone has a picture or video likeness of the bomber or bombers packed away with their Olympic souvenirs...
...Atlantan Ted Miltiades watched the FBI's plea for help with its Olympic-bombing investigation on TV last week, he had a shock of recognition: the bomb had exploded directly behind a fan-shaped Greek statue he had been photographing only hours before the deadly blast. Miltiades went back to his photos and found a rear shot of a white man in khaki shorts wearing a knapsack that looked like the one the FBI said had contained the bomb. He called the FBI's hotline, and within minutes an agent was at his door to whisk the picture away...
...public appeal comes at a difficult time in the four-month-old case. Just weeks ago, the agency dropped its investigation of security guard Richard Jewell, the only individual whose name has surfaced in connection with the blast. The FBI has come under considerable criticism for allowing Jewell's life to be turned upside down on the basis of scant evidence, and some observers contend that the focus on Jewell may have dried up avenues leading to other suspects. The stalled investigation is especially frustrating to an FBI that recently determined just how lethal the bomb could have been: last...
...center in downtown Riyadh, an attack that killed seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely to be the destination of some if not all of the 40 suspects the Saudis now have in custody for last June's Khobar Towers bombing near Dhahran, a blast that took the lives of 19 U.S. airmen. Chop-chop makes fast work of sticky problems...
Last year, five of us--myself, Jeff Gell, Eric Brown, Peter Wallace, and Manlio Goetzl--rented a car and went to The Game. We had a blast--how many "Yale Sucks" chants did we get going?--and then took in a movie after the football (how could we not use the car for the full 24 hours of rental...