Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basque city of Toloso during a carnival celebration. Arratibel had admitted earlier that he served as a go-between for citizens kidnapped by ETA and said that he was still on their hit list after surviving two previous assassination attempts. His murder came only hours after a car bomb exploded in Granada, killing one man and destroying a four-story apartment building. Shortly thereafter, a 68-year-old Supreme Court judge was shot at point blank outside his apartment in downtown Madrid. "It looks like ETA is opening up all its channels for killing," said Interior Minister Belloch. Politicians have...
...charges made since the mid-1980s by Frederic Whitehurst, a senior chemist. The report is still secret, but Justice and FBI officials say that while it found nothing illegal, it did identify some serious lapses. FBI Director Louis Freeh has already launched reforms. Meanwhile, the agency announced that three bomb investigators have been removed from their positions and that Whitehurst has been suspended with pay for his own serious errors...
...transferred is David Williams, the senior explosives expert on the scene in Oklahoma City. Soon after the blast, Williams announced that the bomb had consisted of about 4,000 lbs. of ammonium nitrate and exploded at a velocity of about 13,000 ft. per sec. According to officials, the report severely criticizes Williams for basing his observations on his experience and instinct rather than precise measurements. In fact, his assessment was accurate. But FBI managers concur with the report that the lab's chief failing has been the practice of letting veteran explosives specialists--"the bomb guys"--write reports...
...cases with the interviews it has conducted. Last week accusations based on these interviews were leaked to the press. Lab personnel were quoted as saying that McVeigh's black jeans were stuffed in a brown paper sack instead of a sealed, plastic evidence bag and that a shipment of bomb-truck fragments arrived in a "mess." But these raw interviews may not become part of the report, because some of the complaints have been refuted...
...second prong of Jones' defense is the argument that only skilled terrorists could have made the bomb, not two drifters like McVeigh and Nichols. Jones and a team of investigators traveled to Belfast to speak with experts about ammonium nitrate bombs. Says Jones: "I talked to a bunch of them, and they said to me, 'I'm not saying your man couldn't have done it. What I'm saying to you is that no one else has ever done...