Word: firebombs
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...April 2005, sheriff's deputies reached a suburban Seattle home in time to prevent a firebomb from detonating. But there was nothing the sheriff's department could do to defuse another volatile situation at the site: a feud between the explosives teams that showed up including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
...some ways, it already has. There have been 55 acts of violence or aggression against Jewish individuals or installations in France since the Israeli offensive on Gaza began in late December, according to the Union of French Jewish Students. This week began with firebomb attacks on synagogues in the suburbs of Paris and Strasbourg. Similar fire-bombings or attempted arson have occurred in Sweden, Britain and Belgium. Three ethnic Arab students in Paris were attacked by seven alleged members of the Jewish Defense League. (The JDL denied any involvement.) French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie this week responded...
...done in New York City, but getting it done was another matter. In 1994, less than a year into his mayoralty, a depressed computer analyst set off a homemade bomb in a No. 4 subway train as it pulled into a busy station in lower Manhattan. The firebomb, built from a mayonnaise jar, a kitchen timer and batteries, hurt more than 40 people. Passengers spilled, screaming, out of the train, some rolling on the platform to try to put out the flames, others beating back the fire with their coats...
...press box was not the only flash point that spring. On April 23, 1981, a 28-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Nguyen Cheu hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo ’68, who was participating in a University forum on Vietnam. Ngo was unharmed, but the firebomb injured one of the policemen escorting the scholar to his car.The attack sparked a fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive Vietnamese government and those who claimed his views were being misrepresented. Ngo was “sympathetic...
...group that zealously subscribes to the communist doctrine of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, Nepal's rebels last week showed an unsettling knack for finding the pressure points of a capitalist society. Following a firebomb attack on Kathmandu's luxury Soaltee Crowne Plaza hotel, the Maoists demanded the closure of a dozen multinational companies and declared a blockade of the main roads leading into the capital?upon which its 1.5 million residents depend for everything from fuel to food. Vegetable prices rose, tourists canceled their visits and officials warned that fuel supplies could run dry by next week. The companies that...