Word: blowingly
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...last but not least, the greatest (in sheer size) form of modern public theatre: The Blockbuster. Even beyond the slightly (dare I use the word any more) ironic fact of having a presumptive presidential candidate go out of his way to praise a film in which space invaders blow up the Capitol (shortly after he announced that security there should be reduced...), there's something slightly unsettling about the shift that commentary represents in the balance of power between fluff media and serious public discourse. It's disturbing to have reached a point where officials feel that they have...
...doubts about the cause of the tragedy. "That aircraft has had 25 years' experience without a catastrophic accident," says a veteran, and "747s don't just fall out of the air." Adds the lucky first officer: "There is nothing a crew member can do to make a plane blow up like that...
...some 15 maintenance experts inspected it," said Dionyssios Kalofonos, director of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. "The plane was not left unattended for a minute." Furthermore, insisted Evangelos Markoulis, spokesman for the Public Order Ministry, "to be precise, a time-bomb device has 12 hours minus one minute to blow up. Therefore, if such a mechanism had been planted on board the aircraft, it would have gone off after it landed at Kennedy." A direct flight to New York from Athens takes 10 hours. To Athens' credit, Greek airport security appears to have improved. Last week passengers on the original...
...Lebanese village of Qana last April, killing more than 100 civilians. Threats have also come from Egypt's Islamic Group, which has pledged to strike at the U.S. for imprisoning its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, was convicted last year of plotting to blow up the U.N. and several other New York landmarks. He is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. Speculation also surrounds the hard-line Palestinian group Hamas, which has vowed to attack the U.S. for agreeing to extradite Musa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, to Israel...
...responsible. Among the candidates are Ramzi Yousef and his supporters. Yousef belongs to a new breed of Islamic zealot trained in the Afghan war. He was captured in Pakistan and extradited to the U.S. last year. Accused of masterminding a fiendishly elaborate plot to blow up U.S. passenger planes over the Pacific, Yousef is now entering his eighth week of trial in New York City. Counterterrorism experts fear remnants of his group may still be active...