Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tigers have been blamed for several other bomb attacks in Colombo, including one that killed President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993 and blew up the Central Bank building...
JIANG ZEMIN After losing soccer final, China says it has neutron bomb. And will be getting sports bras soon...
Back in 1948, Mao Zedong pooh-poohed U.S. military power as a "paper tiger"; half a century later the gibe may be rebounding. A week of furious saber rattling ? including the announcement of neutron-bomb capability and reports that the Chinese army was on full alert ? failed to deter Taiwan?s President Lee Teng-hui on Tuesday from reiterating his policy shift away from the "One China" concept toward "state-to-state" relations with Beijing. And as if Taiwan's thumbing its nose at Asia?s mightiest military power weren?t humiliation enough for Beijing, the Philippine navy on Tuesday...
...Laden operatives are behind bars, but it will take more than dogged police work to deal with the terrorist threat to the United States. Two Egyptian nationals appeared in a London courtroom Monday to face extradition proceedings brought by the U.S. for their alleged role in last year?s bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Mohamed Abdul Almagid Bary, 39, who are accused of transmitting faxes claiming responsibility for the blast, bring the total number of suspects in the attack currently in custody to eight, with a further six still...
...Slobodan Milosevic bombed out of Kosovo? Yes, say the White House spin doctors, eager to proclaim victory for a "Clinton Doctrine" of using limited military force to achieve limited goals. No, say Western military analysts surveying the bomb damage now that the dust has settled. Monday?s New York Times reports that NATO forces have discovered, upon entering Kosovo and observing the Serb withdrawal, that the damage inflicted on the Yugoslav army was considerably less than had been initially claimed by the alliance. "NATO hit a lot of dummy and deception targets," a former alliance commander was quoted as telling...