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...components for a bomb, unassembled in his carry-on bag. The X-ray operators never detected the components. On board the plane, Yousef allegedly went to the lavatory and assembled the bomb, which was made up of gun cotton, a nitroglycerin solution, an explosive detonator and a timer all packed into a contact-lens bottle. He then went back to his seat and tucked the bomb under the cushion. He left the plane after its first stop in the central Philippine city of Cebu with the device still under the seat. Two hours later, the device exploded, killing a passenger...
...relatively simple timer on the bomb could have been set to detonate after the airliner was airborne again. If this was the case, U.S. counterterrorism officials suspect the bomber wanted the device to go off much later in the flight, so the incriminating debris would be lost farther out in the Atlantic. The device could have malfunctioned and exploded early. That gives investigators a lucky break. With the crash occurring in 120-ft. water, "there will be a lot of stuff we can collect," says a U.S. intelligence official. "We'll find out what went on here...
...tight circles of terrorism experts, Thurman is a legend. In 1990 he solved what everyone thought was an almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then...
...Turner, the merger liberates his lofty ambition from the shackles of cash-strapped circumstance. After years spent as a relative small-timer, the mercurial entrepreneur finds himself vice chairman of Time Warner, at the center of the world's largest programming engine...
...electronic timer will avoid the effects of crowding at the starting line by electronically recording a person's time at the start, at the half point and at the finish...