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...truck and backpack bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing The Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...from the Middle East seated at a keyboard and called the police. (The man was guilty of nothing.) Those driving into Manhattan were stuck in lines of the sort usually seen only in Bangkok or Mexico City, as authorities made carpools compulsory and searched every van and truck, especially those licensed to carry hazardous materials. "This is how it is because this is how it has to be," said a law-enforcement official, according to the New York Post. "This is a police state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...long bomb"--a chemical, biological or nuclear attack. But just as crucial, this aide argues, is to protect against "short yardage"--attacks on bridges, tunnels, power plants, chemical-storage facilities and refineries. "There are hundreds of these targets," says a Pentagon official, "and attacking them with conventional means--a truck full of explosives--is a heck of a lot easier than building an atom bomb or a chemical weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...jail and must be bailed out. Fuller then joins his brother on the ride to Venna’s college. As a result of Fuller’s playful influence, Lewis participates in a practical joke, pretending to be a woman and engaging in flirtatious conversation with a lonely truck driver via his car’s CB radio. When the trucker becomes aware of the prank, the joke is on Fuller and Lewis; the rest of the film follows Fuller, Lewis and Venna as they are stalked, hunted and tortured by the angry driver...

Author: By Andrew D. Goulet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Joyride Runs on Fumes | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

...feet over the sea would be a tall order even for the Stinger missiles believed to have found their way into the hands of the Bin Laden network after the Afghan war. If the plane was indeed brought down by a missile, the odds favor at least a truck-mounted surface-to-air missile system beyond the known capability of even the best-armed terrorist groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Accident Suspected in Russian Crash | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

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