Word: bomb
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...horrors, the purpose was usually obvious, a bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted their responsibility; the message got across only if it was signed. But more recent practitioners, like the men who leveled an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia two years ago or set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result. Theirs may be acts of recruitment to win adherents to some fanatic's cause, or of a secret vengeance. Above all, the anonymous blasts from the blue are terror for terror's sake, intended...
...very good. Out of 24 major attacks on American targets since Iranian fundamentalists seized the Tehran embassy in 1979, only eight ever ended in arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive and effective preventive measures...
...World War II veteran and a longtime combat aviator, Glenn had been assigned to fly F9F Panther jets in an attack squadron running raids out of Pohang. During one especially hellish run, Glenn encountered an unexpectedly heavy barrage of antiaircraft fire. A cloud of shrapnel ripped one bomb from the undercarriage of his Panther, then another. A second blast punched more than 200 holes in the skin of his plane. Glenn struggled for a few moments to keep his wounded aircraft stable and then realized the effort was futile. Keying open his microphone, he called out levelly to the squadron...
Kamikaze Slabbers scurry onto the gunnery at night, hunting bomb remnants to sell as scrap, and a few have blown off limbs with live ammo. Aleksick resents that people sit up there tax free and then run him ragged with service calls, but he says 80% of the Slabbers are decent folk...
...answers. Nobody knows much about the five men arrested in an early morning swoop in the town of Omagh Monday, except that they were wanted in connection with the most bloody terrorist attack in the territory's recent history. The perpetrators of Saturday's car-bomb attack that killed 28 people and wounded 220 are unknown, although police suspect a Republican splinter group that calls itself the Real IRA. But why would they plant a bomb in a mostly Catholic town? And was the most horrific part of the atrocity -- that a misleading telephone warning led people to be standing...