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...first 24 hours. Though none came in before the blast -- the earliest followed it by an hour, well after the first news reports -- a few were intriguing. Many of the calls were made by people claiming to be affiliated with Balkan groups, including one made by a caller in Europe who said he represented the Black Hand, a Serbian extremist organization last active about 10 years ago. According to terrorism expert Xavier Raufer, Serbian nationalists have threatened terrorist reprisals against West European countries for interference in the region...
...were immediate suspicions that Bill Clinton's decision last week to air-drop relief supplies over Bosnia -- a step that had seemed like a low-risk humanitarian gesture -- might have been answered in thunder by the Serbs. Still, the Bosnian hypothesis was by no means the only one. A caller from the West Coast credited the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; an anonymous tipster blamed Jewish extremist groups...
Harvard police received the first phone call around 9 a.m., when "a female voice stated there was a bomb" at the Kennedy School, according to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson. A half-hour later, a female caller told Needham police, "A bomb will go off in one hour at the Best Western Hotel of Harvard Medical School," Johnson said. Needham police passed the information to the Harvard police...
Similar measures were taken at the Medical School, Johnson said. Police have not been able to identify either caller or establish any relation between the two, or a third bomb threat received Thursday by the Charles Hotel...
Gary Gainnino, property manager of the Charles Hotel, said that a caller to the residences at the Charles Hotel on 975 Memorial Drive had claimed that some United Parcel Service packages to be delivered that day "contained some stuff that could hurt some people...