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...technicians happened on a twisted shard from a van frame. It contained a traceable part of a vehicle ID number, leading to a van-lease paper trail in New Jersey and to a suspect. Four days later, FBI agents arrested Mohammed A. Salameh, 25, a Jordanian national of Palestinian descent residing illegally in the U.S., and charged him with taking part in the bombing. Five people died and more than 1,000 were injured in what a federal prosecutor labeled "the single most destructive act of terrorism ever committed on American soil...
...darkness fell, the silent, shuffling black forms snaked up the mountainside for 10 numbing hours, then staggered down the icy and perilous descent. An uncupped cigarette was enough to draw fire from Serbian positions ( along the route. Alija Slivo, 60, who spent five months in Serbian captivity in the town of Foca, was ready for an ambush. "I'll blow myself up before I get caught by the Serbs again," he said, pulling a hand grenade from the pocket of his tattered gray jacket. Sometimes the trek is called off altogether when Bosnian security forces find pressure mines or booby...
...second Roth is in Jerusalem, where the first Roth plans to visit early in the novel. He is giving interviews and drumming up support for the movement he calls Diasporism: a plan, in the hope of averting a second, Arab-engineered Holocaust, to move all the Jews of European descent out of Israel and back to the countries of their ancestors...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
...Serb objective is to use rape and enforced pregnancy as a form of revenge and humiliation. Says Mark Wheeler, a lecturer on modern Balkan affairs at the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies: "The idea of nationality in the former Yugoslavia is based on descent, and the greatest debasement is to pollute a person's descent...