london. marion spent the next decade in prison but over the next twenty five years the ira would explode thousands of car bombs. and just one bomb could destroy a small town or blast the heart of a key financial center like the city of london. bomb disposal officer mike calder was called out to diffuse the biggest ira bomb of all. round about ten twenty seven the morning tremendous blast of the truck. about three kilograms i exploded. sort of blast wave that rick. windows out of the hole where. the ira deliberately planted the bishopsgate bomb on a saturday morning knowing that most of those city offices would be empty. it was

economic terrorism. with. shoreditch bishopsgate was around about one billion pounds. imagine twenty times the amount of devastation in city centers around the united kingdom. the ira never won their war in ireland but the british lost their ears on the streets of the city of london. did you think this was going to change the politics of northern ireland when this bomb went off oh no doubt about it and i saw the devastation and realised what a launch those bonds were ushered in eighteen months we'll be talking peace. at the height of the troubles the ira churned out car bombs as if on a production line. but you don't need a secret army to launch a car bomb attack. even the smallest terrorist cell can

make a one off fertilizer bomb. in one nine hundred ninety three the same year as bishopsgate car bombers would return to america and strike again at new york's financial district. the target was the world trade center. on friday feb nineteenth a massive explosion ripped through the underground parking garage of the north tower. david williams was the chief f.b.i. investigator. were we walked into the trade center it was kind of like walking into a cave. you hear people screaming in the background rescue

workers basically you had a crater that was five stories to. the nine hundred ninety three world trade center bombing was the first major terrorist attack on american soil since the one nine hundred twenty s. on wall street. f.b.i. was in charge but local police forces like the new york city bomb squad were part of the team. don cigar was sent into the bomb crater on sunday afternoon forty eight hours after the blast to help a forensic chemist team take samples. but then sadar we spotted a strange metal fragment crumpled and twisted by the power of the explosion. what was unusual was the damage it was so ripped interests that i've been to scenes in organized crime where people were killed with caught bonds and completely possible car up but i've never seen the undercarriage blown out into pieces as as i was

looking at there so i knew that this had to be right next to work possibly the vehicle that would bring such a large vehicle bomb in here and i took my clothes off and as i ran my thumb and saw i could feel it like an encryption it was a star shape letters letters numbers numbers numbers and then this ended in a starship and i knew that this was a confidential then number. confidential vehicle identification numbers are inscribed on different parts of a car by the manufacturer to help police identify stolen vehicles. at that point i made a decision and i said to the team we have to take these cases out of here i know it's against orders and i see gone and you know carrying a stretcher up i don't think i'll get closer i see that they had a piece of metal on the stretcher i started to raise hell because they were moving evidence before we were up and running with the devil to control center but soon

forensic teams confirm said. it was now just fifty hours from the time of the explosion and the hunt for the bomb and the bombers was rolling. and that led to a break in the case and was obviously a great break in the case because we were able to trace the number back as of four conall one family owned by wright a rental agency and traced that particular van to jersey city were it was last rented to an individual by the name of muhammad solomon. salomé was part of a small cell of islamic terrorists incensed by america's support for israel. the attack on the world trade center was their declaration of war. salomé was arrested. the trail led to a storage facility packed with bomb making equipment. but the real mastermind the

bomb maker ramzi yousef had fled to pakistan on the night of the world trade center bombing. ramzi yosef was basically the lead explosive instructor. in afghanistan teaching other folks to be teachers of builders of bombs. and you could certainly see a bomb or signature between that route and the ninety three crates in a. solemn maze amateurish attempt to reclaim his cash deposit would end in a record two hundred forty year jail term. but there was nothing funny about usis plan for the twin towers. the bomb ban was deliberately part of one of the towers key structural supports. his aim was to bring down both towers. if we got a good blow by sunday night two days after the bombing the slurry foundation would

have failed would have allowed some of the hudson river in and cause tower one to collapse most likely into tower two causing it to collapse. ramzi yousef with finally captured in pakistan two years later and extradited back to the united states. he was taken by helicopter to the southern district of manhattan for arraignment and as the helicopter flew by the twin towers one of the agents point at the towers and says they're still standing. grandiose it takes a glance it looks back stokely it says more money and more time and they would not be head he was pretty correct. good is why again in one nine hundred twenty. users truck in one thousand nine hundred three. the car bomb was back on american soil in every major government building was now

a target. when i first came to washington tourists used to pull up for the white house and take pictures the intent of the capitol was to make it an open place that americans could come walk around drive around it's all gone if you know this is a city under siege. and it's thanks to the car by. now evenly i always thought the threat would come from overseas never from the heartland of america itself and in oklahoma the dream of the car turned nightmare. on the morning of the nineteenth of april one thousand nine hundred five eight p. murrah federal building in oklahoma city in the midwest was destroyed in an explosion. the massive bomb killed one hundred sixty eight mostly government office workers and shocked america.

this was born in the usa terrorism. on the orders of president clinton dave williams was again assigned as chief investigator. oklahoma city german effect on you absolutely. some of the things that i saw in the y.m.c.a. which is cross the street from in our building and it was blood spatter and there were little children handprints and that a lot it was a children's day care center and there was blood everywhere and chocolate milk and cookies and teddy bears were fingers in here. and that's terrorism when you come right down to it. than that first hour my swag my scientific while ask yes was that four thousand pounds of van full was used very simple combination of ammonium nitrate fertilizer

and diesel fuel but one of the good breaks was that within minutes jim norman who was an f.b.i. agent pontac in oklahoma city heard the blast saw the blast got his car and drove down and as he's running up to the mer barely hear someone calling his name and it turns out to be a fireman and he shows him a rear axle with the differential housing and this looks like it was probably part of the vehicle stroke of fortune also on that on the differential housing is a matrix number which identifies that make model year and owner of that vehicle turns out it was another ryder truck and was rented out of junction city kansas by a fellow with the name of robert cloying. playing turned out to be an alias but f.b.i. agents obtained a detailed photo fit and appealed for information on t.v.

. and we got a call from the dreamland motel in kansas who said they stayed here. by cross referencing. calls made from the room and criminal records the f.b.i. raible could benefit by a key suspect. we get hit. play in perry county oklahoma about eighty five miles north of oklahoma city and he was in jail so of course we're going to call the jail is he still there and it was so funny that the individual that answered the phone there we have a can with me here and walking by going for his bail hearing please hold on to. say was arrested just two hours after the bombing as he made his get away it was a routine traffic offense. he was stopped by

a state trooper charlie hanger for not displaying a valid license plate he was carrying a concealed weapon. how do you know. it was a right wing militia fanatic who thought the us federal government were tyrants. it was a cold misplaced rage. but with a rented truck and some cheap ammonium fertilizer mcveigh would bomb oklahoma with the same power as an f. sixteen fighter bomber. in two thousand and one mcveigh was executed by the federal government. still at eight hundred dollars ago there is no end to other potential timothy mcveigh. but the next attack by a vehicle borne improvised explosive device which shape the world.

the nine eleven hijackers turned civilian aircraft into bombs jeff. by crashing them into the twin towers. it was truly the ultimate vehicle borne improvised explosive device a plane. after nine eleven the united states invaded iraq and afghanistan. but in these new wars the car bomb became the key tactical battlefield weapon. militarily the us invasion of iraq was a perfect blitzkrieg. in just three weeks and allied force of three hundred thousand defeated an army of a half a million seizing a country the size of california for the loss of just one hundred thirty nine men.

i know. but this stunning victory turn once coalition forces occupied iraqi cities. the car bomb became king of the road. former u.s. marine colonel thomas hammes served in iraq and is a leading military analyst. what did the car bomb mean for iraq. i think the car bomb changed the basic tactical situation in iraq successful counterinsurgency is based on being among the people close to them when you start bombing and you start to withdraw both government forces the police in iraq and u.s. forces in behind bomb barriers you cut off communication the people the car bomb separated the government from the people and at the same time inflict casualties so

was the other big piece of an insurgency and other words convince the american people we're losing car bomb can't be stopped time to get up. insurgents use car bombs against any target the u.n. religious shrines police stations and street markets. the blast of the car bomb turned blitzkrieg to defeat. to counter the car bomb the u.s. military has established gyda joint improvised explosive device defeat organization . with an annual budget of four billion dollars. most of gyros work as top secret advanced electronic countermeasures to jam remotely detonated bombs. but some of it is just good old fashioned intelligence. will we defeat the carpet for i don't think you can ever say that a car is

a commercial entity you go buy a car and then if you want to go get some fertilizer if you've got a few stray rounds of one five five shells such a found i mean just suddenly you can make a car bomb and so it's not something that you're ever going to be able to eliminate from the battlefield because the components are all there. across the world governments are hardening their buildings putting up bomb barriers defenses against suicide truck bomber. downing street in the white house are turning into fortresses . the car bomb is it the greatest terrorist. in the us in my opinion a car bomb is it wreaks terror and everyone any kruk any car any vehicle at rise by you could be a bomb leaving vehicle. i could only see you getting more enhanced by any chemical biological or nuclear material with it yes

a vehicle bomb is probably the most devastating most impact a terrorist could have and indiscriminate killing how do we stop it i don't believe we can. there is one sure way we could defeat the car bomb. we could walk. but we won't and we can't. the car is as basic a tool of our civilization as a knife. a car is no longer a dream of freedom it's our necessity. but as long as there are cars there will be car bombs. truly a car bomb and it's make your own simplicity and it's perfect invisibility is and will be the decisive weapon of conflict.

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system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. journal trading the actual cash the physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons madi likely silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded to some degree in. some place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future.

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echoes of iraq is the u.k. considers military intervention in libya some fear the ongoing violence in north africa could trigger a knowledge is not stressed compared. to us foreign policy how some americans spring the country's ever changing from this poll position which they say regularly sees them supporting the public i. lost the last leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday r.t. takes a look at how thankful to the good country which some say. this

is live from moscow the libyan leader moammar gadhafi has about a war the gap of thousands if foreign powers and to the country this comes amid speculation the u.s. and u.k. are preparing for military intervention london's telegraph newspaper reports that british special forces already in libya might be called to secure tons of chemical weapons stockpiles there this comes as the u.k. looks into enforcing a no fly zone over the north african country meanwhile the u.s. is flexing its international muscle using its more ships places in libya via the su is can now get over the growing number of international governments have publicly opposed the use of external military force options or amateur reports on what an intervention will probably mean for libya. and we do not in any way realize the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against

its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles to impose a no fly zone in this case libya into. thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without un approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq. the result so suspect we largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia is drawn out conflict has been called a slow genocide but there's little sign of u.s. or european military inputs and it's a similar story on the other side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government and nobody seems to

be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya all but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country britain has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years. with black gold libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global too so and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason you're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the arctic. i guess cocoa was that much of a national priority but in somalia there was precious little help while the body count rose over the years except for one brief but disastrous intervention involving u.s. soldiers immortalized in the movie black hawk down american forces failed at great cost to stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the

lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains a staple even now with only feeble sheets of that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan. with new convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll could be cleared up. the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't go on any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations will want to impose their puppet government which is still ruling. out american military occupation of iraq really that is not help. the revolution the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing at home either up to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and times have changed this is now austerity britain by starting another war wasn't

factored into the budget british troops are already fighting an unpopular war in afghanistan it's highly unlikely the public has the appetite for again getting involved in someone else's struggle battling as they are at home in the face of deep cuts rising unemployment and it's not likely to be popular in sight this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels your and its artsy. activist count turner. libyans may want to regime change it should be achieved then not by foreign intervention. i'm extremely worried the could be a foreign intervention led by i think united states and britain i think it's very difficult for them but on the other hand if they feel that there's any opportunity

of toppling fee and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests in the upper tiers interests are in some way threatened and i think ultimately they won't hold back and particularly concerns about the no fly zone policy that spain itself the comparison would be what happens in iraq in the ninety ninth his at the end of the gulf war of ninety ninety one the united states and britain and so on a stop list and no fly zone the net result is that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country was bombed see next the results of a no fly zone was not to prevent splits cause the humanitarian crisis and it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see that sort of situation unfolding here population across the region has made pretty clear in my opinion for the although it wants to

change regimes it doesn't want foreign intervention you don't need to agree in politics to work that out and to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america or britain by him. or countries around the world are being affected by idea about raffling in north africa around the middle east cyrus unoiled prices have been fueling concern of a slow economic recovery all through the nations that that's causing the business desk now where dimitri joins me live i really is more hype than reality rob we've seen shifts in global climate trends well there's going to be a shift in the global economy if oil exports stop or lease are coming to a halt for a short while we're not seeing that happen right now and therefore there's just risk which is being priced in at the moment this is why we're seeing more than gas prices going up was.