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. buddha was a close associate of both men. so the idea was that this had been somehow a blow against capitalism the idea of the street the idea of banks big moment of labor warfare a revolution you just have to take revolution so that whole system of capitalism government put together was what they were striking a blow at this was the first car bomber it was the first car on no course it's not a car. but it was a leg of this 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 and 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 where the freedom fighters of israel were determined to drive arabs out by terror from wildlife he saw as their rightful jewish homeland.

who started the first car bombing here in the soyuz tools. to whose decision was that the oath to racial so that baldwin do the size is what. it was the headquarters of the r.m. five hundred pulsars. lefty 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 job a densely populated arab district. this guys is arabs a lot he 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. but 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 came into the reap what sort of training did he get in germany you talk it was called commando command. and he had a clue that wireless devices i mean occasions and all types of explosives. six weeks after soraya thousand targeted a jewish stronghold ben yehuda street in the heart of jerusalem essentially and he

take me a whole history was he in charge of the operation he was in charge he planned at the beginning the middle and the end of the street. 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. we should tell me about the two british two zero two c. worth of daniel dusters you know who were quick who the ones that were sent us to the mat camps missed any gun and i think they were not just so that there was a big in them up british soldiers who were working with them. and they were against the british policy keith this lie through people from then and there placed them

with other people and those american who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry it out see that home they nest in. 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 it's a it's a fuse it's an ocean. they can. get up get out because it's going to be a skill we wanted to distill case we were looking for the lost. the three thousand pound bombs tore through the surrounding buildings killing sixty. hina was not just an eyewitness she was also allegedly member and had taken part in bombing operations let me ask you this question did the truck bomb make you with the resistance. was good made you angry or sure it became very much why

should i leave when it was put to use to kill civilians be a killer going to war against those who are guilty to talk to you just. let you were the first terrorist group in the world to use car bombs but they would not be the last. verse the jews in the arabs. the world's first car bomb or. less. they planted four. and fowls you planted four hundred twenty people died. the car bombing only stopped in may one thousand forty eight when war broke out and the checkpoints became frontline. a new terror weapon cheap and convenient had been born.

but palestine in one nine hundred forty eight did produce one further novelty. the 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. in the second small he was the chum bells of this song thing father of the state of physics that we can go to ups one thing. and say believe that if they would kill him jews established devastate the special east of the arabs and if i was in cuckoo. pepero explosion and there. was explode in the field how many people were killed when seven people. would have happened. if ben-gurion

had been this office the fame been going on with the key. jews wouldn't establish that state because he was only a prime minister the only leader but he was is you can say george washington george washington of the united states. sassy dating your enemy supreme leader is nothing new the 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. kings and 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 can 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 mafiosa disappear by booby trapping their cars and blowing them to pieces. in sicily the power of the mafia is as old as the statute. 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 idea here. so we how do you know the mafia this year. because. the flu plus the most with the for me show you call those you'll. 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. a business did not run smooth. in one nine hundred sixty three the first mafia war broke out between two clans the greco those and the barbera it's. giovanni scotto is an anti mafia campaigner but he is also the name. if you have a key mafia boss cesare. money fellow was an ally of the greco. and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car. my account was blocking his drive and he needed to go beyond it to enter into the. car was exactly the same type to

a friend or he thought he was his friend. so it got into the new car turn the key and the explosion at present and they had a school why did they not when they killed you also use a pistol instead of a car bomb in my uncle's murder was the first mafia and their first act of terrorism. by 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 blew 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 doing yourself terrorism ventral trail of destruction spanned the globe from ireland oklahoma and the middle east. 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 growing revolt. there were daily demonstrations protests. alan thompson was an f.b.i. special agent assigned to the state capitol madison. it was like

seventy what were the students like 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 lot of broken windows what was the dimia the key demand was to get out of vietnam. 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 thousand 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 of extreme interest of the white house was that this explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what was happening out here and why it happened then we had to come up with samantha's real fast this was what was going on so anyone killed yes a young physicist by the name of robert foster not was killed in initial blast. the f.b.i. team immediately focused their investigation on a car spotted flaying 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 took you came up from the one armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building in. talk about the night he bombed wisconsin.

where did the idea come from a car bomb my brother and i am very like basically you know we were considering ways to our math research center family brother guy says well why don't we just fill up a truck full of explosives in a sudden off aside for a moment 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 cough in the morning nitrate and fuel oil and then we transported to our trap site which was a farmer's field and now basically we just put in all the ammonium nitrate and you

know except by hand oh no only just poured into the barrel. trying to get the idea we didn't have the internet. so basically the formula is in the encyclopedia britannica under was. also for much of the whole thing cost two. hundred dollars for the morning nigeria. carl and his three fellow student bombers then stole a van and mixed explosives together. they drove to the university. inside the van was a time and a half of explosives. well i'm. ashamed that you know robert bosnak died people were injured. but i have no regrets for my motivations for doing the bombing and doing it was a message and we were trying to. get on to recovery. 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 war movement. he served ken years in prison. sad part about it is that the the research that the claim of the army meth research center was doing was not research for the army at all so in other words this is an act of protest the turning back to murder absolutely absolutely counterproductive 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 basic one hundred dollars you can shake

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so now it's an artsy echo of a rock as the u.k. considers military intervention in libya there are fears the ongoing violence in north africa could trigger another disastrous campaign full report coming up for you also u.s. foreign policy is some americans questioning the country's ever changing political position which they say regularly sees them supporting the bad guys to get analysis on back. plus a bumpy and revolutionary road as the last leader of the soviet union turns eighty r.t. takes a look at the country's democratic transitional wife son played mikhail gorbachev for bringing destruction along with it.

hello you're watching r.t. at ten pm moscow time and i'm scared you know in a lot of top story tonight the opposition in libya claims to have thought off an attack by colonel gadhafi forces in the eastern oil rich town bragger reports say fourteen people have been killed in the fighting meanwhile the u.n. has warned of the unfolding humanitarian crisis on the trinity and border where thousands have been fleeing the violence in libya artie's paulus leaders in chile this with more. so far moving seventy five thousand people had fish itchy tunas from neighboring libya the situation on the border is chaotic as border guards they struggle to keep calm and i know his latest address to the libyan people need a more likely does he warned against american intervention in his country he said that should the united states or any other foreign power try to intervene thousands

of libyans would die is it to quote him that he was willing to fight every last man and every last woman for years to keep control in his country he also said that he was not the president and therefore he could not resign he could not dissolve parliament and he could not and made the constitution now some question the latest thoughts on the british prime minister david cameron wants to me to establish a no fly so overtly appear to have been rejected by maybe an international community on its hands and russia they say situate actually lives in cells to determine the fate and the future is how we live in london is to go ahead and post this messiah so it would essentially be missiles just shooting down its cost that's over now there are currently british troops deployed in been fussy they are there with the material situation and the ongoing since and they can be used to take a look at chemical weapons stockpiles in the city's largest it is fearful that the thing which you see stopped cars and gates supposed people will secure because

nations of both egypt and america that to you is a sell to cisco the internet in spain you see not far from libya see there are concerns of a possible american intervention in addition to a possible push when my colleague in london or in it looks at what some intervention would mean for libya and we do not in any way rule out 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. crumples posted no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous news looking quite possible that we will launch such an attack with or without approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and the results suspect really large of the same

but no separate countries 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 us all 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 but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country 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 toso and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason they're interested in. your oil here

anybody screaming and yelling about all those people were killed in the ivory coast . i guess cocoa was that much of a national priority because in somalia there was precious little help while the body count 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 quickly and have returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains of the staple even now with only three people she said. much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally down in afghanistan this new convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll could be clear to an idiot but the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't want any more countries in the middle east it's

a model today's troubled african nations will post on their puppet government which is still ruling. american occupation of iraq really. help. the middle east. and american and european government shouldn't look for backing. 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 where 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 and rising unemployment and it's unlikely 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. political expert money during a snowstorm told me that foreign powers of already launched a military campaign in libya mirroring events leading to the two thousand and three iraq invasion. foreign intervention can only exasperate a problem in libya and cannot help in any way and as a matter of fact foreign intervention has already begun the french the united states and the british have already said so called humanitarian aid to benghazi but they've also sent military advisors and special forces this means that your operations have already begun we are seeing a similar scenario what happened to iraq we're seeing talks about sanctions false reports that have been used to justify the no fly zones about aerial strikes on protesters and civilians this is the deed sack same scenario as iraq in fact they're starting to talk about chemical weapons.