tv [untitled] March 6, 2011 1:30am-2:00am EST
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little. of the matter with her as he here's a look at the top stories of the week while fighting continues around leave your reports of heavy gunfire in the capital of the smith by the government is simply procrit off and celebrations. unrest in the oil rich arab world sandrock waves through the u.s. economy and the protests seen prices soaring. hillary clinton throws down the gauntlet for the u.s. media to offer its game against other countries international media outlets including our team. and many britons prepare to boycott the approaching nationwide
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censors outsourced to a controversial u.s. firm over fears their personal info might be and are overseas. up next here in our special report focusing on the car bomb a weapon that's become synonymous with terrorism the twentieth century. my name is bob baer. i used to be a cia agent stationed in the levanon 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 who developed it and who killed. i've come back to the one city where car
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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 americans dead lebanese six of my close colleagues friends in the cia were killed. carsten to vet saw the bomb go off. and suddenly i saw this. bang this white star over the old embassy and then of course the bang and then i looked up. and i went over and then i saw death and destruction and chaos.
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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 does. bombs. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs in muslim car bombs. in the long drawn out civil. war going to die and then i was the only experts who was dismantle income bones in lebanon and the lot of. russia became too good at stopping car bombs. and then his adversaries decided to target him. one day they left the bow and especially for me this and it was activated by remote
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control and as soon as i touched the bone. they blew it up. unfed be away for two thousand and five the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri presidential cavalcade was destroyed by a two ton car. the c.c.t.v. camera captured the vehicle this white truck. in the traffic. black mercedes through alongside the bomb went off. a really was one of the world's richest man a billionaire. his mercedes was armor to the hilt the six. the best protection level there is. truly the root is the whole of the modern car the car bombs we're seeing today. were developed on the streets
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so it's a car bomb itself pretty at least that bad place to go down slowly killing and state police officers. to get into the war in iraq we saw dozens of lebanese 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 custom but the lebanese never created the car. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century car bombs are an american invention and. by the one nine hundred twenty new york had become the financial center of world capitalism. but then in september one thousand twenty eight wall street was
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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 and in some ways still is just the epicenter of american capitalism and government tell me what happened here at about twelve zero one away again or strong bank and exploded into the lunchtime crowd. they killed about forty people in the street and injured hundreds of people just fairly sophisticated i mean whoever built this thing. do what they're doing they
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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 the 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 these guys wanted 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 anarchist 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
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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 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 car on no course it's not a car and sense but it was a way to get 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.
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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 leckie freedom fighters of israel were determined to drive arabs out by terror from wild where he saw as their rightful jewish homeland. who started the first car bombing here in this school. whose two whose decision was that the racial slur. it was the head of
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this fighting forces. 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 shortcut 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. the skies as arabs like he. 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
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a monopoly on planning car bombs. the palestinians made plans to strike back using their own bomb maker. could train 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 the reap what sort of training did he get in germany you know what i do is called commando commander. and he has nesa eighteen clue that wireless devices are communications and all types of explosives. six weeks after soraya thousand targeted jewish stronghold ben yehuda street in the heart of jerusalem this insanity take binya who the street was in charge of the operation he was in charge he planned at the beginning the middle and the end of the street.
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but you're a slum 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 assume we both the two british designer seaward daniel just knew who were quick who the ones that work the. cinema cams the skinny and ivan they were not just two there was a big in them if soldiers who were working with him. and they were against the bench policy keith the city life and all the people from then and there placed them with other people that those american who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry it out see that home a nest of. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by
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jewish fighters in the desert or shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you know that's a it's a fuse or explosion. they can. get up get out because since it's going to be a spill we wanted to be still pays we wait for the last. 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 you with the resistance. good made you angry or make me angry but. leave when things do go put to a call. to kill the civilians be killing going to war against
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those who are guilty. you know you just. let the 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. left. they planted four. and flowers 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 frontlines. 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
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leadership. what happened in this building here where here was the government of the jews and. in this second floor here was the charm belt of this young king fahd of the state of physics that we can go to ups on their computer and say believe that if they would kill him jews may not establish their state the special east of the arabs and focusing. on the explosion and the car was exploded here how many people were killed when seven people were killed and two hundred. would have happened. if ben-gurion had been a softness the famine going on with the keep. the jews wouldn't stop lucian's our state because he was only
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a prime minister the lido but he was is you can say george washington george washington of the united states. sas eating your enemy supreme leader is nothing new the president abraham lincoln what was new was the car. 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 sicilian mafia discovered a new way to make rival mafiosa disappear by poofy trapping their cars and blowing them to pieces. in sicily
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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 positive here. so we how do you know the mafia is here. because. the two hundred plus miles to the finish you call those. things started to change in one nine hundred fifty seven when the sicilian an american mafia met and this lavish palermo hotel organize the world's heroin
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trade. goods 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 is. giovanni scotto is an anti mafia campaigner but he is also the net. if you have a key mafia boss cesare. month bellow was an ally of the greco and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car bomb. my account was blocking his drive and he needed to go beyond it to enter into the. 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 in the door of the of the school why did they not
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when they killed your uncle use a pistol instead of a corporal 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 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 span the globe from ireland oklahoma and the middle east
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. to. the car bomb was about to become a 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. but 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
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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 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 fixed remain interested the white house was that this is the explosion absolutely it went all
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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 this what 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 and. talk about the night before wisconsin. where did the idea come from the car bomb my brother and i were like basically you
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know we were considering ways to an army mouth research center family brother going so i was told why don't we just fill up a truck full of explosives into sudden off a sudden 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 co-op morning nitrate and fuel oil and then we transported it to our prep site which was a farmer's field and not basically we just put in all the ammonium nitrate and you know except by hand oh no you just pour it into the barrel. and you get the idea you didn't have the internet. so basically the formula offers
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an encyclopedia brittanica underwater. explosives how much of the whole thing cost you. two hundred dollars for many nigerians. 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 ton 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. and doing it was a message and we were trying to send it off to recovery. after the bombing armstrong fled to canada and was a fugitive for two years. but was then extradited back to wisconsin.
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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 the turn an act of murder absolutely absolutely are pretty much 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 was like 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. wealthy
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