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Vanguard
April 28, 2018
People gather near burnt vehicles a day after a truck bomb exploded in the centre of Mogadishu on October 15, 2017. A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at a busy junction in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on October 14, 2017 causing widespread devastation that left at least 20 dead, with the toll likely toÃâà...
The Drive
April 26, 2018
The force protection version is larger and supposed to defend static sites, such as checkpoints and base entry points, against car and truck bombs and similar ... in dealing with complex multi-vehicle attacks in which there might be decoys to distract from the most pressing threat, such a large truck bomb.
Cornell Chronicle
April 25, 2018
“Public buildings may be vulnerable to everything from truck bombs to sniper fire. Military and civilian design have a long and intertwined history that cannot be compartmentalized, and they both have something to teach the other.” Each student in the seminar researched one of 17 American revolversÃâà...
Belfast Newsletter
April 24, 2018
On April 24, 1993, an IRA truck bomb exploded at Bishopsgate in London, claiming one life, injuring 44 people and causing what was estimated in press reports at the time to have been Ãâã1 billion worth of damage. THE CRATER LEFT IN BISHOPSGATE , IN THE'CITY OF LONDON, AFTER BOMBÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 23, 2018
President Donald Trump has been criticized about everything from climate change to gun control to women's issues and more. He is accused of sexual misconduct. The Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal didn't get nearly the press. Life was not perfect when Clinton was president, and a truck bomb wasÃâà...
History
April 19, 2018
When two disgruntled Americans detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, it was, at the time, the biggest terror attack in U.S. history. The event set off the nation's most massive F.B.I. manhunt, surpassed only by the 9/11Ãâà...
Jacksonville Daily News
April 19, 2018
In 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh, who prosecutors said had planned the attack as revenge for the Waco siege of two years earlier, was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in 2001.) In 2005Ãâà...
Arizona Daily Star
April 19, 2018
Around 6 a.m. on April 19, 1993, FBI agents moved in to end a 51-day standoff with the Branch Davidian religious sect near Waco, Texas, ramming holes in the group's compound with armored vehicles and spraying tear gas inside. About six hours later, smoke poured from the compound, which soon wasÃâà...
FOX 4 News
April 19, 2018
Investigators concluded the Davidians shot themselves or each other as the fire broke out. Two years later, on April 19, 1995, a truck bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 186 people. Prosecutors said Timothy McVeigh planned the bombing as revenge forÃâà...
WILX-TV
April 19, 2018
Timothy McVeigh set of a truck bomb made with fertilizer and other chemicals. He was caught and eventually executed in 2001. McVeigh claimed the bombing was revenge for the violent end to a 51 day standoff at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas two years earlier. The standoff started whenÃâà...
Daily American Online
April 14, 2018
1995: A truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.) 2013: USA Today founder and Eureka native Al Neuharth died at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.
Daily Signal
April 3, 2018
In October 2017, it launched one of the deadliest terror attacks in history when two of its truck bombs killed more than 500 people in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu. The group also frequently attacks nearby Kenya, perpetrating some of the worst massacres the country has ever suffered. Its seizure of theÃâà...
Naharnet
March 29, 2018
The Registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Daryl Mundis met with Prime Minister Saad Hariri during a working visit to Beirut this week and discussed various matters related to the work of the Tribunal, the STL said on Thursday. He also met with Prosecutor General Samir Hammoud andÃâà...
Xinhua
March 29, 2018
Earlier on Wednesday, anti-terrorism police in the northern city of Turin arrested a 23-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who was allegedly plotting a truck bomb attack in the name of IS. On Tuesday, a 59-year-old Egyptian man who is married to a much older Italian woman was arrested for indoctrinating veryÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
March 28, 2018
They're charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction to detonate truck bombs in Garden City. Beson testified Stein often talked about Somalis as cockroaches who should be exterminated, which he initially dismissed as "just blowing smoke." That changed following a June 2016 meetingÃâà...
The National
March 27, 2018
Officials from the United Nations Mine Action Service also spoke of the impact of IEDs in Somalia. Since last year, there have been 484 detonations, including a truck bomb at a busy intersection that killed 645 people. “It has now become the weapon of choice for local insurgents,” said Quentim Ygorra,Ãâà...
Latin American Herald Tribune
March 23, 2018
23 on the Somali presidential palace and the intelligence headquarters resulted in 45 deaths, while 512 people perished in the capital last October in a terrorist strike using truck bombs. Al-Shabaab, which aims to establish a theocracy under strict Islamic law, controls parts of central and southern Somalia. Analysts say thatÃâà...
Helena Independent Record
March 23, 2018
The comments were made during opening statements in the trial of Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen on charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly planning to detonate truck bombs in the meatpacking town of Garden City, 220 miles (350 kilometers) west of Wichita.
CBC.ca
March 23, 2018
The comments were made during opening statements in the trial of Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen on charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly planning to detonate truck bombs in the meatpacking town of Garden City, 350 kilometres west of Wichita. Stein alsoÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 23, 2018
The comments were made during opening statements in the trial of Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen on charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly planning to detonate truck bombs in the meatpacking town of Garden City, 220 miles (350 km) west of Wichita.
ABC NEWS 4
March 22, 2018
The bill is now headed to the full Senate Medical Affairs Committee for consideration, after which it still would need to pass in the Senate, the House and get the governor's signature before becoming law. ABC News 4 spoke to families who are hoping legislation will eventually pass. Mark Montrose is advocating for theÃâà...
CBS Sacramento
March 22, 2018
Emergency first-responders, including members of the U.S. Air Force, will be descending on the old building for a massive training exercise. “Don't panic, its only an exercise,” Cal OES Spokesperson Shawn Boyd said. The dramatic storyline that includes a truck bomb and nuclear radiation is only fictional.
ABC NEWS 4
March 22, 2018
“She went from having sometimes, to like 12 seizures a night to like one or two a month.” Eliminating two medicines in the last year. Navy veteran and now registered VA hospital nurse, Donald Howell is advocating with the group Compassionate SC. “On October 23rd, while we were asleep, a truck bomb came in and blewÃâà...
LubbockOnline.com
March 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — Security at the nation's nuclear power plants is under review to see if new safeguards are needed against the possibility of terrorist truck-bomb attacks, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week. 50 years ago: AUSTIN - President Johnson called on CongressÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 14, 2018
In Helmand Province, a suicide truck bomb struck a checkpoint, killing at least two border police officers, said provincial police chief General Abdul Ghafar Safi. He said another three police officers were wounded in the attack in the southern province's Nad Ali district. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
The Epoch Times
March 12, 2018
In 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168, injured 680, and caused $650 million in damage with his Oklahoma City truck bomb. He didn't use an AR-15. The 9/11 terrorists killed almost 3,000 people, using four airplanes (but no firearms). Subsequently, there has been a long string of bombings, such as the 2013Ãâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 12, 2018
It would be used by American airmen on and off for the next 50 years until a pro-Iranian Saudi Shiite terrorist group attacked it with a truck bomb. After the Khobar Towers attack in 1996, the United States Air Force shifted operations to a remote air base in the desert named Prince Sultan Air Base. The airÃâà...
The Australian
March 12, 2018
Rear Admiral Peter Briggs, who led the expedition that finally found AE1 last December in Papua New Guinea waters, said it would have been like a “truck-bomb going off in the middle of the control room” and that there was at least some comfort the men “didn't know what hit them”. The AE1 sank inÃâà...
The Independent
March 9, 2018
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least seven people, according to officials. The attack was apparently intended to hit crowds gathered to commemorate the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, a political leader from the mainly Shiite Hazara minority. One policeman and sixÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 8, 2018
A massive truck bomb killed at least 90 people in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on May 31, 2017. The target of the attack was Kabul's heavily fortified diplomatic area in the "Green Zone." The German Embassy in the area was extensively damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban and the "IslamicÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 7, 2018
... for the long-running trial to go forth against Oneissi and the three others, who are suspected members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Hariri - father of current Prime Minister Saad Hariri - was killed along with 21 others on February 14, 2005, when a massive truck bomb blast hit his convoy in the capitalÃâà...
Sunatimes
March 6, 2018
On Oct. 14, a truck bomb packed with explosives was detonated outside the busy K5 intersection in the middle of the day. The street is lined with government offices, kiosks and restaurants. The impact of the truck bomb was compounded by a near-by fuel tanker that multiplied the intensity of the blast.
WPIX 11 New York
February 28, 2018
“In 1993, truck bombs were things that happened in Beirut,” Miller observed. Scott Alswang, who was a U.S. Secret Service agent parking his vehicle on the B2 level that day, was the closest person to the truck bomb who survived. “I thought I had blown up the tire compressor, “ Alswang recalled. He laterÃâà...
Borneo Bulletin Online
February 27, 2018
It was a terror attack that foreshadowed September 11: the deadly World Trade Center bombing that happened 25 years ago In this February 27, 1993 file photo, Port Authority and New York City Police officers view the damage caused by a truck bomb that exploded in the garage of New York's World TradeÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
February 26, 2018
FILE--Port Authority and New York City Police officers view the damage caused by a truck bomb that exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center in this Saturday Feb. 27, 1993 file photo. Monday, ... more. Photo: RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS. Image 2 of 44. New York City policeÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
February 26, 2018
The names of the six people who died in the Feb. 26, 1993 truck bomb attack at the World Trade Center are inscribed in the bronze border of the north reflecting pool of the National September 11 Memorial, in ... more. Photo: Richard Drew, AP. Image 2 of 11. A visitor to the National September 11 Museum,Ãâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 8, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) (Pajhwok): The spy agency on Tuesday claimed preventing a truck bombing in capital Kabul. A statement from the National Directorate of Security or said a truck loaded with two tons of explosives was confiscated under the eight police district limits. The explosives hadÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 7, 2018
A military court in Somalia yesterday handed the death penalty to one of five suspects in the Mogadishu truck bomb attacks which killed more than 500 people last year, All Africa reported. On 14 October a truck bomb exploded outside a busy hotel in Mogadishu; it was followed by a second blast in a marketÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 7, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): The spy agency on Tuesday claimed preventing a truck bombing in capital Kabul. A statement from the National Directorate of Security or NDS said a truck loaded with two tons of explosives was confiscated under the eight police district limits.
Toronto Star
February 6, 2018
No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack. However, Somalia's government has blamed the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab for the bombing on a crowded street. The truck bomb was the most powerful blast ever witnessed in Mogadishu and the deadliest single attack in the Horn of Africa nation.
Financial Express
December 2, 2017
... Shabaab has been fighting to overthrow successive internationally-backed governments in Mogadishu since 2007 and frequently deploys car and truck bombs against military, government and civilian targets. The huge October explosion levelled buildings in the capital's busy Kilometre 5 neighbourhood.
NPR
December 2, 2017
Two truck bombs blasted the capital city of Mogadishu on Oct. 14. The first detonated outside a hotel at a busy junction lined with restaurants and government offices. A fuel tanker next to the bomb greatly increased the denotation's intensity, burning many bodies beyond recognition and destroying entireÃâà...
Financial Express
December 2, 2017
... Shabaab has been fighting to overthrow successive internationally-backed governments in Mogadishu since 2007 and frequently deploys car and truck bombs against military, government and civilian targets. The huge October explosion levelled buildings in the capital's busy Kilometre 5 neighbourhood.
africanews
December 2, 2017
In the incidents on Oct. 14, a truck bomb exploded outside a busy hotel at the K5 intersection lined with government offices, restaurants and kiosks. A second blast struck Medina district two hours later. The impact of the truck bomb was worsened by it exploding next to a fuel tanker that increased its intensityÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
November 21, 2017
At least 23 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide bomber set off a truck bomb near a crowded marketplace in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, police and medical sources said on Tuesday (Wednesday NZ Time). An interior ministry spokesman said a "violent explosion" took place nearÃâà...
New York Times
October 28, 2017
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A truck bomb detonated outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, minutes before gunmen on foot stormed the building on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 23 people and wounding at least 30 others, the police reported. Speaking to The Associated Press by telephoneÃâà...
NBCNews.com
October 21, 2017
Two Americans who are among the blast that killed more than 300 people in Somalia last weekend have been identified, but the impact on American soil and the stateside Somalian diaspora runs much deeper, relatives told NBC News. Maine resident Iman Osman was separated from his Somalian brother,Ãâà...
Voice of America
October 20, 2017
Thousands of Somalis gathered Friday to pray at the site of the country's deadliest bombing. Last Saturday a truck bomb exploded on a busy street in Mogadishu, killing what is now believed to be 358 people. As Somalis in the capital city paid their respects, the Somali prime minister said Somalia'sÃâà...
The Independent
October 18, 2017
Police said a truck bomb exploded outside the Safari Hotel at the K5 intersection, an area home to government offices, restaurants and kiosks. Two hours later, a separate blast hit the Medina district. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed declared three days of mourning in the aftermath of the bombingÃâà...
The Independent
October 18, 2017
Police said a truck bomb exploded outside the Safari Hotel at the K5 intersection, an area home to government offices, restaurants and kiosks. Two hours later, a separate blast hit the Medina district. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed declared three days of mourning in the aftermath of the bombingÃâà...
