Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jewell has no job now except for waiting, as the FBI examines articles seized from his home, especially his tools, which may offer evidence of a bomb's assembly. "Tools make peculiar marks," says an agent. "You can match them like a fingerprint." Voiceprints are much less exact, so it cannot be determined with scientific accuracy that Jewell's voice does or does not match the 911 caller's. The FBI is also said to be questioning some of Jewell's friends. Still, a week of sleuthing had unearthed no immediately incriminating evidence...
...cockpit, "the nerve center of the aircraft," as Robert Francis, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), described it. Said James Kallstrom, the FBI's lead investigator: "I just think that somewhere in the front of the plane is a clue." Investigators generally believe that if a bomb destroyed Flight 800, it exploded in the front of the aircraft. Examining the cockpit could help prove that theory...
...intelligence agencies here and abroad, are scouring all incoming reports about a possible Iran connection. Of interest are the recent movements by an alleged Hizballah terrorist named Hussein Mikdad, who is purportedly backed by Iran. On April 4, Mikdad took a Swissair flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv with bomb parts hidden in a carry-on bag. Eight days later, Mikdad blew off both his legs and one arm when a bomb he was assembling in an east Jerusalem hotel room accidentally detonated. Israeli security officials believe Mikdad was building the bomb using a powerful plastic explosive called...
...Flight 800 case, federal points of inquiry already assume the existence of a crime. If there was a bomb, did it contain Semtex, a powerful Czech explosive used by Libyan agents in the Pan Am 103 bombing? Or a lower-grade nitroglycerine-nitrocellulose mix? And what evidence can be extrapolated from the existing clues to help answer these questions...
...fuel-air explosion," probably indicating that a low-grade explosive device was involved. This theory, so far a minority view, holds that an explosion would cause fuel to leak into the air and then be ignited by the slow-burning detonating material, creating what amounts to a giant gas bomb; a higher-velocity explosive like Semtex would cause severe structural damage to the plane, but the intense blast might be too short to ignite fuel vapors...