Word: blasts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think the weekend was great for us,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “Very solid and everyone competed well. We had a blast playing at the U.S. Open facility despite the windy and chilly conditions...
...There were these sketchy bumper cars in this place that we stayed,” Pan recalls. “We just had a blast. Rob had this malicious grin on his face the whole time and just smashed into us without any hesitation...
...Pakistan army, and many Western observers suspect that those ties have yet to be completely severed. That issue was given new urgency on Thursday when a large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing 17 people and injuring over 80. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast. It was the second such attack on the embassy in as many years - last July, over 50 people were killed at the same spot in an attack mounted by the Pakistan-based Haqqani network. That attack prompted U.S. officials to present their Pakistani counterparts with evidence pointing to involvement...
...setting - President Asif Ali Zardari's private residence is located across the street from the WFP office - as well as the elaborate security measures that were put in place after last year's devastating bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which killed 60 people. Security officials installed high blast walls, thick iron gates and a fence topped with razor wire around the WFP building. Barriers were also set up at both ends of the street and manned with armed guards...
...After slipping into the building, officials said the attacker detonated his explosive in the lobby just after noon, when about 100 staff members were at work. "There was a loud blast, a flash of light and the windows shattered," Dominique Frankefourt, the WFP's deputy country director, told TIME. "I was on the first floor of the two-story building. I told everyone to get out as quickly as possible. But when I came down to the ground floor, there were people lying on the floor who could not move." Four of those killed were Pakistani; the fifth victim...