it was a great place to be. and then the embassy got hit. by a suicide car bomber. sixty three dead dead american dead lebanese six of my close colleagues friends in the cia were killed. carsten to that saw the bomb go off. this. white star. and then of course the bank and. over. and destruction and chaos. it was a stunning assault. one man with a car could wage war on 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 defused dozens of bombs. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs muslim car bombs. and the long drawn out. and then i was the only expert who was dismantling. became too good at stopping. and then his adversaries decided to target him. especially for me. it was activated. and as soon as i touch the bomb. blew it up. on february fourteenth two thousand and five the former lebanese prime minister. presidential cavalcade

was destroyed. t.v. camera captured the vehicle this white truck. in the traffic. the bomb went off. really was one of the world's richest man. his mercedes was armored to the hilt. the best protection level there is. truly a route is the haul of the modern car. and were developed on the streets. of baghdad the. safest place. to get into the war we saw.

dozens of. crossing the border into syria. and it was only a matter of time before a car bomb started on. car bombing might have become. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century. art american invention. could become the financial center of world capitalism. but then in september one thousand twenty wall street was rocked by a massive explosion. it was the world's first car. 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 the big flags on it there same buildings that would have been here most famously the morgan bank. and that really was and in some ways still is just the epicenter of american capitalism and government tell me what happened at about twelve zero one away or strong way again exploded into the lunchtime crowd. they killed about forty people in the street and injured hundreds of people who is 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 buda who was an italian an artist who was

a loan operator and he was even within this circle of a 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 these guys wanted there was a lawyer found in a mailbox nearby a couple 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 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 wall street the idea of banks big moment of labor warfare. a revolution you just have to take revolution so that.

capitalism government put together was what they were striking a blow at this was the first car bomb right it was the first car on no course it's not a car in the sense but it was a way invented right here wall street. what happened. would 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 extremist 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. as their rightful jewish homeland. who started the first car bombing here. whose decision was that. it was the head of the. left who 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. disguised as arabs a lucky 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 came to what sort of training did he get in germany you know what i do is called commando commander needs and. yes you need to include it wireless devices communications and all types of explosives. six weeks after soraya targeted jewish stronghold ben yehuda street in the heart of jerusalem ascension he takes bin yehuda street was seen charge of the operation he was in charge he planned at the beginning the middle and the end of the street. but you're in one nine hundred forty eight was an armed camp. jewish areas protected by checkpoints and rifle bearing guards. the only way through. it was to

disguise the bomb vehicles as a british military convoy. and the men driving those trucks were six british army deserters who should tell me about the two british designer so you were. nude who were the ones that work that. started the match comes the steamy gun and i thought they were not just so that there was a big in the british soldiers who were working with him and. they were against the british policy to keep this lie through people from then and there placed them with other people they did to makan who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry it out see that whom they nest and. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by jewish fighters the designer shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you know that's a it's a fuse so explosion. they can. get up get out because if it's going

to be a spill we wanted to distill case we went to sort of lost. the three thousand pound bombs tore through the surrounding buildings killing sixty. hina was not just an eyewitness she was also allegedly a member and taken part in bombing operations let me ask you this question did the truck bomb make you with the resistance. why they made you angry or sure if newt gingrich but why should i leave when people put a call. to the civilians be killed down to war against those who came to talk to us. left he were the first terrorist group in the world to use car bombs but they would

not. the last. verse the jews then the arabs. the world's first car bomb or. left a planted four. and fallacy planted four hundred twenty people die. the car bombing only stopped in may one nine hundred forty eight when war broke out and the checkpoints became frontlines. 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 this second flow he was the chum bells of this song think

if the state of physics if you can go to ups one day. and say believe that if they would kill him jews may not establish their state the special east of the ups and. explosion and the car. was exploded. how many people were killed when seven people were killed and hundreds. would have happened if ben-gurion had been this office the fame been going on with the. jews wouldn't establish a state because he was only a prime minister the only leader but he was 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. 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. so we how do you know the mafia this year. because. the. loss to the because 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 organize the world's heroin trade. but business did not run smooth. in one nine hundred sixty three the first mafia war broke out between two clans the greco. and the barbera.

giovanni is an anti mafia campaigner but he is also the nephew of a key mafia boss cesare month. month l o was an ally of the greco. and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car bomb. was blocking these drive and you needed to go beyond it to enter into that. the car was the same type to a friend because he thought he was his friend. so it got into the new turn the key and the explosion happened. why did they not when they killed your uncle use a pistol instead of a car bomb in my uncle's murder was the first mafia and their first act of terrorism at least 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 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 would 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 in the midwest were in revolt. there were daily demonstrations protests. alan thompson was an f.b.i. special agent assigned to the state capital madison. and what was it like in one thousand seven hundred what was 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 lot of broken windows what was the demand the key demand was to get out of the. 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 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 to the white house was that this yellow 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 and we had to come up with samantha's real fast as to what was what was going on so anyone killed yes. as

a young physicist by the name of robert foster not was killed in the 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 came up from the y.m.c.a. armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building and talk about the night he's bombed wisconsin. where did the idea come from a car bomb our brother to what we're like basically you know we were considering ways to. research center then my brother got its nose oh why don't we just fill up a truck full of explosives into sudden off the side of 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 morning nitrate and fuel oil and then we transported it to our site which was in a farmer's field and basically we just put in all the ammonium nitrate and you know except by hand own only just poured it into the barrel. and you get the idea we didn't have the internet. well basically the formula is in the encyclopedia britannica under water. since how much of the whole thing cost you . two hundred dollars from. karl and his three fellow student bombers then stole

a van. mix the explosives together. they drove to the university. inside the van was a ton and a half of explosives. and robert 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 off 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 movement. he served ten 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 that turning back to murder absolutely absolutely our producers to tell the productive 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 would like one hundred dollars stolen car fertilizer. so it was in a sense it was a turning point absolutely basically one hundred dollars you can shake a country exactly. wealthy british style. sometimes.

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is live from moscow a key town in libya's oil rich east has reportedly been targeted by a strikes once again also a day off the forces loyal to colonel gadhafi to control if it will later forced out by the opposition fighting continues the u.n. is warning of a humanitarian crisis as thousands of feet of the country. has more of the situation in the region. at least one hundred eighty thousand people who have so far fled libya and some seventy five thousand of them arriving here in tunisia most of them off foreign labor as they are being housed at the border point intense where they were saving food and medical supplies aid workers who are on the scene are warning that this is reaching crisis point and we're hearing reports of crisis and chaos at these border points as gods struggle to keep the situation under control now the fighting is continuing throughout the country at several times between forces loyal to.