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...What happened on Bangabandhu Avenue on that evening of Aug. 21 was extraordinary even by the bloody standards of Bangladesh?a nation that has endured at least 21 major bomb blasts that have killed 158 people in the past six years. The attack occurred during a rally attended by some 15,000 people, just after Hasina?a former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founder?had delivered a speech protesting a series of bomb attacks on her party workers in the city of Sylhet. As Hasina prepared to leave, hand grenades began raining...
...mail from a cybercaf?, but political analysts are unsure whether he is suspected of being a member of a terrorist group or is just a prankster. As for Hasina, she questions the government's capacity to conduct a proper inquiry and is asking for an international probe into the bomb blasts. While they grope for clues, security experts agree that the attack, with its use of hand grenades instead of crude, homemade bombs, shows how brazen Bangladesh's terrorists have become. "A new threshold has been crossed," says former Foreign Minister Kamal Hossain. "We have seen a tremendous escalation...
...appearance. Just after 10 a.m., when the fog had lifted, two helicopters swooped in over the mountainside and a phalanx of police cars, jeeps and armed agents charged up. Spera, then 60, was captured at gunpoint and hauled away to serve multiple life sentences for the 1992 car-bomb executions of anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The property's owner, Nicola La Barbera, and Spera's doctor, Vincenzo Di Noto, were also arrested, and both later served time for Mafia association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again...
...unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed the North for a 1983 bomb blast in Myanmar that killed 17 South Korean officials, including four Cabinet ministers, and for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed 115 people...
...estimated 2,000 blazes around the world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...