the dorms to their targets and it was planned that by the time the bombs week wore thought afternoon at three o'clock. we went on to. marry and chose four spectacular targets including the old bailey courthouse. but the most prestigious target was new scotland yard. peter gurney a bomb disposal officer was on duty that day. and i found the fourth call. and the number plates on the car did not relate to that particular vehicle the proof locker been tampered with so we decided that what we would do we would go into the booth through the rear seats were in theory and you could see that it was packed with exposure of. clothes one hundred eighty pounds of explosives the problem was moving forward from exposure if we don't the initiator we had no idea how long it was for on the cloth what we just decided to would to take the explosive away from the bomb. by reporting by are destroyed pound bags or explode

that would put them on the other saw the road towards the bomb or and go off with us to go through. the building that had to be evacuated and no officials cross-currents all the windows working those were what was the significance of this bomb these were the first called warm used the name of the. two bombs did explode. the irish war was now on the streets of london. marion spent the next decade in prison but over the next twenty five years the ira would explode thousands of car bombs. 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 might called or it was called out to diffuse the biggest ira bomb of all.

round about ten twenty seven saturday morning. tremendous blast of a truck up there in the shit for about three hundred kilograms i exploded. so in a blast wave that ripped all. windows out of the whole area. 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. bill clinton shortage bishopsgate moved around about one billion pounds. imagine twenty times the amount that was 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

on no doubt about it and i shoulder devastation and realized the launch of 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 thousand nine hundred 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. to hear people screaming in the background rescue workers basically you had a crater that was five stories to. the one 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 saddam 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 said 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 interested i've been to scenes in organized crime where people were killed with caught bombs and completely possible car up and 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 either right next to or 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 so i could feel it i can encrypt 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 vin number. confidential vehicle identification numbers are inscribed on different parts of a car by the manufacturer to help police have ten to five 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 the law it is and i see dawn 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 the evidence before we were up and running with the devil to control center but soon forensic teams confirm said always hunch. it was now just fifty hours from the time of the explosion and the hype for the bomb van and the bombers was rolling. their lead to a break in the case that was obviously a great break in the case because we were able to trace the number back as a four conall line family owned by right a rental agency and traced that particular van to jersey city where it was last rented to an individual by the name of muhammad solomon. salomé was part of

a small cell of islamist terrorists and sensed 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 a 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 taking other folks can 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 years. jail term. but there was nothing funny about useless plan for the twin towers. the bomb van was deliberately parked near 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 it would have allowed some of the hudson river in and cause our one to collapse most likely into tower two causing it to collapse. ramzi yousef was 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 out the powers and says they're still standing. grandiose it takes atlanta

looks back stoically it says more money and more time and they would not be and he was pretty correct. food is why again in one nine hundred twenty. uses 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 tourist just 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 now if you know this is a city under siege. it's thanks to the car of a. naive li i always thought the threat would come from overseas never from the heartland of america itself and in oklahoma

the dream of a 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 there in effect on you absolutely. some of the things that i saw in the y.m.c.a. which is process tree from in our building and it was blood spatter and there were little children's hand prints on that one it was a children stay care center and there was blood everywhere and chocolate milk and

cookies and teddy bears were fingers in the ear. and that's terrorism when you come right down to it. within 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 oil 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 them or barely hear someone calling his name and it turns out to be a fireman and he shows him a rear axle with a differential housing and this looks like it was probably part of the vehicle bomb

struck a 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 to identify a key suspect. we get him on pay and perry county oklahoma about eighty five miles north of oklahoma city and he was in jail for of

course we're going to call the jail if he's still there and it was so funny that the individual that answered the phone there said yeah we have a committee we face here and walking by going for his bail hearing please hold on to. they 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. bay was a right wing militia fanatic who thought the us federal government were tyrants. it was a cold misplaced rage by one man. 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 and there is no end to other potential timothy mcveigh's. but the next attack by a vehicle borne improvised explosive device which shakes the world. the nine eleven hijackers turned civilian aircraft into bombs joe. by crashing them into the twin towers. it was truly a 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 the game 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. but this stunning victory turn once coalition forces occupied iraqi cities. the car became king of the road. former u.s. marine colonel thomas paine's served in iraq and is a leading military analyst. what if the car bomb making 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 it was the other big piece of an insurgency and either it's convincing american people we're losing car bomb can't be stopped coming 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 giant o.

joint improvised explosive device defeat organization. with an annual budget of four billion dollars. most of joe's work is top secret it vast electronic countermeasures to jam remotely detonated bombs. but some of it is just good old fashioned intelligence. will we defeat the car bomb 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 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 their greatest terrorist weapon. it is in my opinion a car bomb is it reached karen everyone any kruk any car any vehicle and cries by could be a family vehicle. i could only see it getting more enhanced by any chemical biological or nuclear material yes the vehicle bomb is probably the most devastating most impact a terrorist could have an indiscriminate killer 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. or 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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to. see. the u.s. and britain beat the drums of war the target this time in libya but as the rest of the world remains conscious pentagon of the mainstream media raise founder with oh they can dance to it. and you can you really trust in times of war or turns on for many votes in and out of the astound meant no one will have much more on a report that showed some u.s. soldiers were ordered to use psychological operations on their own people a lot of people may have expected. a middle class movement cries out but their pleas fall on deaf ears this is the

ohio senate turns their back on you. the user ever heard boy. that's just the sure no regrets from a one thousand dollars desert i want their paycheck while on wall street to leave the pleasures of new york main street taste the bitter bite of reality. it's wednesday march second eight pm in washington d.c. and christine for us now you're watching r t well major violence this hour across the north african country of libya according to reports the libyan air force was bombed an oil refinery there and battles between those who are loyal to moammar gadhafi and those who want him to step down continue in several towns across the country meanwhile the u.s. has flights playing its military muscles as u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton states nothing is off the table and while the u.s. may find a partner in the u.k. . where it ends are reports. we do not in any way 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 in two 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 so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq. as a result so suspect to be 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 us 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 but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya oil but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole because we all know the west including my own country has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years dirty with black coal and libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global total and they could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason they're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people who were killed in iraq. there i guess cocoa was that that you know a part 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 moon. 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 of a staple even now with only feeble she said that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan with big thing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll. 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 won't want to impose on them government which is still ruling. american occupation of iraq really.

help. the middle east. and american and european government shouldn't look for backing of whom 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 writing unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular inside 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 fight hard to afford on many levels your and it's our duty. and earlier i spoke with phyllis bennis who is a fellow for the institute of policy studies i asked her of libya now is looking

like iraq back in two thousand and three and one would push the u.s. to invade his her response. i think the conditions are very different and i think the circumstances facing policymakers in washington are very different that doesn't mean there is no danger it doesn't mean that there is no possibility that someone will make the insane decision to send troops what i think is more likely is that there will be an effort to respond to demands that have been made by some members of the opposition asking for a no fly zone that will be harder to argue against not because it will work we remember i think people in the entire region remember what happened with the no fly zone in iraq hundreds of civilians were killed by the enforcement of that no fly zone that hasn't changed i think libyans remember very well what happened in one nine hundred eighty six when the u.s. came to attack could duffy they were going to attack just him it was just pinpoint surgical bombing right well they missed him they got fifteen civilians including

his three year old daughter who were killed in those airstrikes i think people in libya remember that very well so it's pretty clear that the majority of people in libya do not want foreign troops the question of a no fly zone is a little bit trickier because it sounds so easy the one thing that gives me a little bit of hope is that even the secretary of defense here in washington robert gates has said that this would be a bad idea so it may be that this is a lot of posturing trying to make nice to the opposition on the hope that when they come to power that they whoever is the leadership then will remember that it was the u.s. who tried to come to their aid i think that the reality is the human rights situation across libya is a disaster i think that people are suffering a great deal and i think that people want this to be over quickly with the overthrow of gadhafi in some form i think the vast majority of libyans want to do it themselves the price is already horrific i think the reality is most people know that sending troops from somewhere else to that region.