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my name is bob baer. i used to be a cia agent stationed in eleven on during the civil war. it was chaos. but the real threat was always car bombs. but until now the car bomb secret history has never been told who invented it to develop it. and who killed. i've come back to the one city where car bombs have forever shaped our history. beirut. i love pharaoh. it was a great place to be a spy. and then the embassy got hit.

by a suicide car bomber. sixty three dead dead americans dead lebanese six of my close colleagues friends in the cia were killed. carstens of that saw the bomb go off and suddenly i saw this big. this white start the whole embassy and then of course the bank and then i looked up flames and they run over and then i saw that and destruction and chaos. it was a stunning assault. one man with a car could wage war in the united states ironically with an american truck. there is one man who knows a lot about lebanese car bombs. mahmoud. a top expert

who diffused dozens of bombs. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs muslim car bombs. and a long drawn out civil war. well guess what i'm then i was the only expert who has this monthly income bones in lebanon and. russia became too good at stopping car bombs. and then his adversaries decided to target him. one day they left the boma specially for me. it was activated by remote control and as soon as i touched the bomb. they blew it up. on feb fourteenth two thousand and five the former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri presidential cavalcade was destroyed by two ton car bomb

a c.c.t.v. camera captured the bomb vehicle this white truck. in the traffic. as hariri as black mercedes drew alongside the bomb went off. really was one of the world's richest man a billionaire. his mercedes was armored to the hilt the six. the best protection level there is. truly a route is the home of the modern car the car box we're seeing today in iraq and were developed on the streets suicide car bombs fell three police checkpoints to baghdad closing bell around twenty civilians and six police officers. to get into the war in iraq we saw dozens of loving is crossing the border into syria

. and it was only a matter of time before a car bomb started on. a. car bombing might have become a lebanese national customs but the lebanese never created the car bomb. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century car bombs are an american invention . by the one nine hundred twenty so new york had become the financial center of world capitalism. but then in september one thousand twenty eight wall street was rocked by a massive explosion. it was the world's first car bomb. where we're walking right now is exactly where if you'd been standing here on september sixteenth one thousand nine hundred twenty

you would have been hit by the bomb over here what was then the u.s. treasury. and of course the stock exchange with a big flag on it there same buildings that would have been here most famously the morgan bank. and that really was in some ways still is just the epicenter of american capitalism and government tell me what happened at about twelve zero one away again or strong way again exploded into the lunchtime crowd. they killed about forty people in the street and injured hundreds of people it was fairly sophisticated i mean whoever built this thing. knew what they're doing they knew what they were doing and of course the question immediately became who was that person or who were those people and the best theory is that it was a man named mario bhutto who was an italian anarchists who was a lone operator and he was even within this circle of the militant anarchists very

committed revolutionaries he was the committed of the committed what did he want though i mean it was there anything that give us an idea what you guys want to there was a lawyer found in a mailbox nearby who blocks up that way that said free the political prisoners or it will be death to all of you and it was signed the american an artist fighters the political prisoners were two italian anarchistic sacco and vanzetti who had been arrested and later executed by the federal government after an abortive bank robbery. it was a notorious case and critics claimed it was a show trial. was a close associate of both men. so the idea was that this had been somehow a blow against capitalism the idea of street the idea of banks big moment of labor warfare a revolution you just had also that revolution so that whole system of capitalism

government put together was what they were striking a blow at this was the first car bomb right and it was the first part of course it's not a car in the sense but it was a wave of violence invented right here wall street. what happened to buddha buddha actually fled the united states he went back to italy but he never came back to the states as far as anyone knows. the wall street explosion was not just the first car bomb it was a terrorist blueprint. and the car bomb would next appear in the middle east in palestine in the violent struggle over the founding of the state of israel. in the one nine hundred forty s. palestine was under british rule. the majority arab population were opposed to a jewish state. the same time extremists jewish factions like the stern

gang waged a terrorist campaign against those who they saw as enemies of the future jewish state. arabs and british troops. stern's organisation. freedom fighters of israel were determined to drive arabs out by terror from what wacky saw as their rightful jewish homeland. who started the first car bombing here in this school. whose two whose decision was that the old school racial. it was the headquarters of the five people. left he were opposed to any deal with the arabs by the mainstream jewish leadership led by david ben-gurion. and planning car bombs

was a short cut to provoking all out war. on january the fourth one nine hundred forty eight left he struck. their target was the sariah building in the heart of java a densely populated arab district. this guys is arabs a lefty bomb team drove a truck packed with two hundred pounds of explosives and park close to the building . the electric timer was set for eighty seconds to let the bombers get away. the explosion killed twenty eight including innocent passers by and injured hundreds. less he did not have a monopoly on planning car bombs. the palestinians made plans to strike back using their own bomb maker. trained by the nazis during world war two. thousand the sister. was close to him. she has never spoken about her brother

before. she became a three what sort of training did he get in germany you thought it was called commando commander needs and he had yes eight luke wireless devices i mean occasions and all types of explosives. six weeks after soraya thousand targeted jewish stronghold ben yehuda street in the heart of jerusalem this insanity takes binion who the street will see in charge of the operation he was in charge he planned at the beginning the middle and the end of history. but you roussillon in one nine hundred forty eight was an armed camp. jewish areas protected by checkpoints and rifle bearing guards. the only way through was to disguise the bomb vehicles as

a british military convoy. and the men driving those trucks were six british army deserters. you should tell me about the two british jews are under siege weren't any of the us treasury knew who were quick to go once that worst of them sent us to the mat against the steel can and i think they were not just so good there was a big in them up british soldiers who were working with him and. they were against the british policy keith lie through people from then and there placed them with other people thank those american who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry its nazi back home a nest of. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by jewish fighters the desert or shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you and that's it it's a fuse or explosive eyelash they can. get can't get out because it's going

to be a skill we wanted to distill case we were looking for the last of the three thousand pound bombs tore through the surrounding buildings killing sixty. hina was not just an eyewitness she was also a lovely member taken part in bombing operations let me ask you this question did the truck bomb make do with the resistance. why they made you angry or sure if newt gingrich but why should i leave when the pill put. me through to civilians being killed under war against those who came to this. lekki were the first terrorist group in the world to use car bombs but they would not be the last.

first the jews in the arabs. the world's first car bomb or. less. they planted four. and fallacies planted four hundred twenty people die. the car bombing only stopped in may one thousand forty eight when war broke out and the checkpoints became front lines. a new terror weapon cheap and convenient had been born. but palestine in one nine hundred forty eight did produce one further novelty of a car bomb as a key assassination weapon when i could to try to blow up the jewish political leadership. what happened in this building here where he was the government of the jews and then. in the second floor he'll was the chump else of this song being father of the state of israel that he'd been given the ups wanted to kill him

and say believe that if they want to kill him jews need not establish their state disposition least of the arabs and foes in cookoo good. explosion and because it was extinct here how many people were killed when seven people were killed and hunger. would have happened if ben-gurion had been in this office the famine going on between. the jews wouldn't establish a state because he was only i mean you still believe go but he was and is you can say george washington george washington in the united states. sassing aiding your enemy supreme leader is nothing new think of president abraham lincoln what was new

was the car bomb. parked in the right place packed with enough explosives you can target any man on earth. keynesian presidents have to drive the roads just like the rest of us and the moment you do your vulnerable. car bombs are so easy you think use them purely for business if your business is controlling the world's heroin supply. in the early sixty's the sicilian mafia discovered a new way to make rival of mafiosa disappear. to be trapping their cars and blowing them to pieces. in sicily the power of the mafia is as old as the statues. five million people live here. but hidden amongst them is an estimated seven thousand mafia members. yet the

power of the cosa nostra is felt everywhere from the highest political office right down to the smallest market stall. this market is the monitor here. so we how do you know the mafia this year. because. the flu plus the monster the finish because you. see. things started to change in one nine hundred fifty seven when the sicilian an american mafia met in this lavish palermo hotel organized the world's heroin trade. but business did not run smooth. in one thousand sixty three the first mafia war broke out between two clans the greco those and the barbarians.

giovanni stocco is an anti mafia campaigner but he is also the now. feel the key mafia boss cesare. my fellow was an ally of the greco. and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car bomb. like you know a cow was blocking his drive and he needed to go beyond it to enter into the. car was exactly the same type belonged to a friend because he thought he was his friend. so it got into the new car turn the key and the explosion happened i'm sure why did they not when they killed your uncle use a pistol instead of a corpse in my uncle's murder was the first mafia and their first act of terrorism b.c. my killing my uncle in this way they wanted to emphasize their revenge given that

the mafia stopped using car bombs for seventeen years until a new more ruthless generation of mafia leaders took over and used car bombs to assassinate judges and magistrates. every judge they blow up turned the heat on more arrests trials prison. but unlike the mafia the next car bombers wanted the blast of their homemade bomb to reverberate all the way to the white house. it was do it yourself terrorism ventral trail of destruction spanned the globe from ireland oklahoma and the middle east. to. the car bomb was about to become the perfect lethal weapon. in the late sixty's students at the university of wisconsin and the midwest were in

revolt. there were daily demonstrations protests. alan thompson was an f.b.i. special agent assigned to the state capitol madison. what was it like in one thousand seven hundred over the student's life what was happening here well the students were. really involved with the the vietnam war there was demonstrations going on and some of them were very violent. there was a lot of tear gas a lot of broken windows what was the dimia the key demand was to get out of the knowledge. but it tiny splinter group of students saw themselves as already at war

with the nixon administration. and the nearest target was close at hand the campus army math research center. a research lab funded by the pentagon and housed in the department of physics. at three forty two am on the twenty fourth of august one nine hundred seventy an explosion destroyed the army math center. hundreds of f.b.i. agents from all over the united states were sent to wisconsin this was extreme interest to the white house was the physical explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk and there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what was happening out here and why it happened and we had to come up with samantha's real fast those what was what was going on so anyone killed yes a young physicist by the name of robert costa not was killed in initial blast.

the f.b.i. team immediately focused their investigation on a car spotted fleeing from the scene at high speed. the bombers were led by a twenty two year old college dropout carl armstrong. this is the route you came up with the y.m.c.a. armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building and. talk about the night you saw wisconsin. where did the idea come from a car bomb our brother's wife and i were like basically you know we're considering ways to an army now research center family brother going says oh why don't we just fill up a truck full of explosives into sudden off outside the building and my immediate reaction was that's crazy the armstrong brothers stumbled upon the ultimate

terrorist weapon of the twentieth century. but there was another deadly twist they bought the base materials for their explosives in the local hardware store. first while we bought the materials from a farmer's co-op the morning nitrate and fuel oil and then we transported to our prep site which was a farmer's field and now basically we just put in on the ammonium nitrate and you know except by hand oh no you just pour it into the barrel. and you get the idea we didn't have the internet. so basically the formula that's in the encyclopedia britannica under watch schools how much of the whole thing cost you. two hundred dollars for going to nigeria. carl and his three fellow student bombers then stole a van and mixed the explosives together. they drove to the university.

inside the van was a kind and a half of explosives. and well i'm. ashamed that you know robert foster died people were injured. but i have no regrets for my motivations for doing it and doing it was a message and we were trying to send it out to the government. after the bombing armstrong fled to canada and was a fugitive for two years. but was then extradited back to wisconsin. his trial was a cause celebre for many in the end i wore a muslim and. he served ten years in prison. sad part about it is that the the research that the claim of the army mass research

center was doing was not research for the army at all so in other words this is an act of protest to turn an act of murder absolutely absolutely how to pronounce counterproductive here in madison and probably throughout the united states you know the significance of this is you can take a group of amateurs. with almost no money with one hundred dollars stolen car fertilizer. so it was in a sense it was a turning point absolutely basically a hundred dollars you can shake a country exactly. sure is that so much of it spiritually i mean if you would like to give it real. the price of oil the person for you the ongoing unrest in the arab world petroleum markets are more than react is to global it. hey charlie here

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