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...planners are using computer programs like Bugsplat, which predicts the blast pattern of a bomb, to show which aircraft approaches generate the least collateral damage. On most bombs, fuses can be set to detonate after the bomb has burrowed into its target, which can further reduce collateral damage. "War is inherently violent. People are going to die," Myers said last week. Americans should not look to the relatively antiseptic wars for Kuwait and Kosovo as a guide. If it were to come down to fighting block by block in Baghdad, the images could be brutal. "We have to be mentally...
Unfortunately, Whitton’s blast was not enough as Harvard ultimately lost...
...backpack, whom they identify as Montazer Sudang, a 23-year-old with apparent links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's biggest Islamic separatist group. A large pipe bomb, either in Sudang's backpack or carried by an unidentified female accomplice, exploded with an enormous blast. When the smoke cleared, 21 people were dead, including Hyde, Sudang and the alleged accomplice; more than 100 others were injured. It was Asia's worst terrorist incident since October's Bali attack, which killed 202. "I've given all those sons of bitches their only place in Mindanao...
...after the Davao blast, a spokesman for the Abu Sayyaf group called a radio station in Zamboanga to claim responsibility for the attack. Philippine authorities immediately shot his claim down. The home turf of Abu Sayyaf, which specialized in kidnapping-for-ransom before dedicating itself to jihad last year, is far away on the islands of Jolo and Basilan, southwest of Mindanao. Some suspect that the Abu Sayyaf wanted to take the blame to sound more fearsome than it currently is?or to shield the MILF, which is in peace talks with Manila. Those talks are now stalled, intensifying...
...prowess has made him invaluable: he wrote a 50-page bombmaking manual, a copy of which Indonesian police seized in a suspected bomber's house in Solo last December. In one of the chapters, Azahari recommends that potassium chloride be used with TNT to enhance the intensity of the blast, a characteristic of the main Bali bomb. Another chapter shows how to use a cell phone as a detonator, a method used in one of the three explosions in Bali. According to Indonesian police, Imam Samudra, the alleged coordinator of the Bali attack, named Azahari as the key bombmaker...