Word: bomb
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DENVER: A key government witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial told jurors that Timothy McVeigh sat in her living room several months before the attack and described his plan to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum...
...tainted by it. Late last year they hired a British expert, Linda Jones, to confirm the lab's findings. The only witness the government would call from the lab itself is Steven Burmeister. He is treated neutrally in the part of the report that deals with the Oklahoma City bomb and is praised in other sections. He found the nitroglycerin and petn on McVeigh's clothes, and he can testify that they were never in the two sections of the lab where contamination was found. Whitehurst, meanwhile, is harshly criticized in the report. Yet even if the prosecution is right...
Jones can also exploit the prosecution's failure to present witnesses who put McVeigh at the scene. Jones can simply say his client wasn't there. He can also ridicule the prosecution for its inability to present any witnesses who saw McVeigh and Nichols constructing the bomb, which would have involved hauling around two tons of fertilizer. This remains a hole in the prosecutors' story. They have dropped some witnesses who would have testified on the matter, and somehow, they will have to convince the jury that McVeigh and Nichols were so surreptitious they escaped detection...
...WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING Five federal cases are being prosecuted in connection with the 1993 attack. While one is set for trial this summer, four have already resulted in convictions--which are being appealed. Of these, it is the case of Mohammad Salameh and three other defendants that has come in for scrutiny. The Bromwich report castigated Williams, then a top explosives examiner, who managed the on-site investigation, saying he "began with a presumption of guilt upon which to build inferences." It excoriated him for offering his opinion that the bomb had consisted of urea nitrate, when no intact...
...Share My World (MCA), comes out this week, and it's a winner. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's groundbreaking first album sold 2 million copies; her second, the spottily brilliant My Life, sold 3 million; both spawned countless sound-alikes. The bold but ultimately mercenary ghetto-sex-bomb posturing of rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, the emotionally blunt crooning of talented teen singer Aaliyah and even the admirably artsy neo-soul stylings of Erykah Badu all have roots in Blige's success. But Blige was the original round-the-way diva; her hard, up-from-the-projects...