Word: bombed
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...most of the hour-long session, they discussed the mundane: Who’s advertising? Who’s postering? But when the talk turned to content, the mission of H Bomb, the student-run Harvard sex magazine, came under scrutiny...
...gunman in the New Life Church shooting, who was shot and killed by an armed New Life security volunteer - as the likely gunman in the earlier shooting as well. Murray, whose last known address was with his parents in Colorado's Arapahoe County, had apparently brought several smoke bombs with him to New Life. The police bomb squad was reportedly called into his parents' home during a search. Indeed, the police had searched the home of Murray's parents before the New Life incident occurred...
...warning - or gun down foes when those warnings fail," says independent terror expert Roland Jacquard, who notes he has no firm idea who was behind Thursday's office attack in Paris' 8th arrondissement. "Basque terrorists have the kind of technical expertise to build such a surgically small bomb, but why would they be using it against a law practice? What little evidence we have suggests whomever was behind it was going after someone inside that office...
...other offices were the real target, the bomb would have had to been built with a much bigger charge to be sure it reached that far," says Jacquard. Visiting the building several hours after the bomb exploded at 12:50 p.m., French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie seemed to concur: "It really appears it was someone in this office who was the target...
...bomb wasn't meant to kill or harm someone in the law firm, then Jacquard says the only possibilities are that it was intended to be a far larger blast, or sought to gain a wider impact than its actual fire thanks to vast media coverage. That first scenario is unlikely at best, Jacquard explains, since successful detonation of the bomb - usually the aspect that goes awry in failed attacks - would have almost certainly set off the totality of the charge. The theory that the smaller explosion sought to generate an even larger shock wave in media reports seems...