Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adding fuel to opponents' flames is the wording of the lecture's title: "The Annual Norman E. Zinberg Memorial Lecture Award." The flyer lists McCaffrey and McGovern and "the 1997 Recipients...
...make up of the bomb that blasted the Oklahoma federal building. According to the documents, he said the device was made with 5,400 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, six hundred pounds more than the government's estimate, and that it was mixed with $3000 worth of racing fuel to produce a bomb of exceptional power. McVeigh added that the scheme was financed at least partially by the 1994 robbery of a gun dealer in Arkansas, which was carried out by Terry Nichols. But that wasn't the end of the robberies. Additional statements revealed both McVeigh and Nichols stole...
...miles off the Maryland coast, an American Eagle turboprop pilot flying at 19,000 ft. was surprised to find himself sandwiched by four F-16s--three above him and one below--after he was told all four would be passing above him. With one F-16 running low on fuel, the four jets screamed by within 1,500 ft. of the turboprop, which was bound for J.F.K. from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
...make money off it, makes strange bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been threatened in international waters while intercepting illegal oil shipments...
...area; including Tuesday's disaster, 254 Israeli soldiers have died in the security zone since its creation, though mostly in clashes with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas. "In a country of Israel's size, that is an alarming number," says TIME's Bill Stewart. "This is certain to add fuel to the debate whether such areas of occupation are truly necessary to the defense of Israel." This week, Israel's Public Security Minister proposed that Israel unilaterally withdraw from the zone, saying Israeli soldiers were unnecessarily a target for Lebanese guerrillas. While Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai rejected the idea, Stewart...