Word: bomb
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...week will have to rely more on the painstaking search for forensic evidence than on "eyewitness" accounts. TIME reporter Clive Mutiso explains: "I arrived at the scene within moments of the blast and there was nothing there but death and destruction -- it's unlikely that any witnesses survived that bomb. But when I went back 90 minutes later, there were suddenly loads of 'eyewitnesses' -- none of them injured -- all telling anyone who'd listen exactly what happened...
...Forensic evidence may be more reliable, but assembling it could take weeks or even months of sifting through the hundreds of tons of debris left by the blast. Investigators are trying to reassemble the mangled wreckage of automobiles destroyed by the bomb, and have asked the public to turn in any unusual bits of metal found in a three-block radius of the embassy. "This is going to take perspiration rather than inspiration," says Mutiso. "The investigators have settled in for the long haul...
Washington is playing down the significance of Tanzania's arrest of 30 people in connection with Friday's bomb attack. "The State Department isn't setting too much store by these arrests because the attacks were clearly carried out by professional terrorists," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'd have had an escape plan rather than be waiting around to be arrested...
...ROURKE, author of the forthcoming Eat the Rich: "Alcoholism saved me from a 1975 terrorist bombing at LaGuardia. Waiting to check my bag, I thought, 'If I carry it on, I'll have time for a drink.' Just as I ordered a bourbon and water, the bomb went off, right where I'd been standing. The bartender said, 'Wanna make that a double...
Some U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea has resumed a serious effort to build nuclear weapons. Evidence from multiple sources has persuaded them that leader KIM JONG IL is pushing the construction of a new reactor--underground to confound U.S. spy satellites--and trying to design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even...