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...start somewhere. So late in the afternoon of , Sunday, Feb. 28 -- a bare two days after the blast that killed at least five people and injured more than 1,000 in the most destructive terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil -- 10 investigators began picking their way down a 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...
When they started down the ramp, the probers -- eight from ATF, two from the New York City police bomb squad -- knew what they were searching for. The blast had been so tremendous that the explosives necessary to produce it could not have been crammed into an ordinary car. So the investigators were looking for pieces of a van or truck so badly burned and twisted as to indicate that they had come from a vehicle at or near the center of the blast. The piece of metal they found looked just that heavily damaged, and the trained eyes...
That find might only have started a months-long forensics process. In order to identify the vehicle, investigators feared that they might have to reconstruct an entire van from pieces scattered not only on the ramp but also at the bottom of the crater. Turning over the piece of metal, though, investigator Hanlin noticed a blackened but decipherable sequence of five numbers. They were part of the vehicle identification number stamped on various parts of vehicles to help police trace one that is stolen or wrecked in an accident. Experienced agents know that the identification numbers are actually codes that...
...Betsy Brecht (Senior Associate Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz (Associate Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender(Assistant Art Director); David Drapkin, Leah M. Purcell (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Joe Lertola (Associate Graphics Director); Paul J. Pugliese (Chief of Cartography); Leslie Dickstein, Steven D. Hart, Deborah L. Wells...
...Betsy Brecht (Senior Associate Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz (Associate Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender(Assistant Art Director); David Drapkin, Leah M. Purcell (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Joe Lertola (Associate Graphics Director); Paul J. Pugliese (Chief of Cartography); Leslie Dickstein, Steven D. Hart, Deborah L. Wells...