Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very careful. "If it spills on the floor, and you scuff your shoe in it," says an explosives expert, "you could make...
...Xaiomeng, an expert on agricultural development, was pronounced dead on February 18 after Cambridge fire fighters pulled him from the Charles River...
...ramp leading to what had been the garage's second parking level, shining flashlights on the mangled remains of cars and trucks that had been blown to bits. "Hey, look at this," said an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Joseph Hanlin, a bomb expert from ATF, picked up a thin, charred, twisted bit of metal about 18 in. long. "This is something that we need to take...
...Jersey City. Salameh may have been living there, but FBI agents apparently found no proof when they searched the apartment. What they did find, according to the court papers, was a letter addressed to Salameh (contents undisclosed), "tools and wiring, and manuals concerning antennae, circuitry and electromagnetic devices." One expert interpreted these as evidence that a "bombmaker" had been in the apartment -- the more so because "a dog trained in the detection of explosives" sniffed around and "responded positively...
Surprised by the Serb onslaught and its timing, officials in Washington insisted that the U.S. airdrops had not triggered the attack. Pentagon and State Department spokesmen argued that the Serbs were carrying out battle plans made long before. But another Administration expert on Yugoslavia sees it differently. "Of course there's a connection," he says. "From the Serb viewpoint, the best way to stop the airdrops is to 'cleanse' the area." The delivery of food may have encouraged Serb fighters, who had been trying to starve the Muslims out of territory Serbs wish to occupy, to mount a more aggressive...