one thirty pm on a sunday night in the russian capital of week's top stories now in our tif is a foreign intervention involved in store libya where a group of british special forces soldiers have reportedly been seized by protesters has her say slaughtered concern from the views of people but interest in oil it's really some western reactions to be on the rest of the u.s. economy already suffering from soaring prices at the pump. in return false for extra funds to spread u.s. media propaganda abroad is a growing number of people tend to other countries needs to get a fresh view on world events. russia's minister is consigned to history

a major overhaul of the country's law enforcement starts with rebranding the service strive to improve its reputation many question however whether the much targeted reform will go on a good and cosmetics. and about with more news more developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime as our special report focuses on the history of the car bomb a weapon that's become synonymous with the terrorism of the twentieth century that special report is next. homemade explosives slipped across the atlantic into the hands of the ira. the world's first full scale car bomb war was now ready to begin. and the material to make the bombs was lying around in every farmer's barn in ireland. china o'callahan was

a senior ira bomb maker at the time my understanding is the ira was running up explosives and yes we can generate great difficulty and get a hold of military commercial explosives and get small amounts which could steal from quarries you could not could we do not use that net nitrate is probably the biggest commercial for the lives of any actual company going to the ship and a complete one faction. the british to counter measures to make it more difficult for the ira to make and for. simply boiling up fertilizer to make explosives no longer works. but the ira also found ways around those restrictions. and ramped up their car bomb or. tommy gorman was one of the ira's top bomb makers in belfast in the one nine hundred seventy s. . tommy's job was to assemble the bombs

set the timer before handing over the device to the bomb team who drove the car to its target in the city center. there's people who did not take a pet cause they had the scene are they got someone who was nervous and obvious not to pike i think and held up in traffic and about women was where i am just as good as man so how about a. one of those women was marion price i mean i didn't i didn't drive at the time i was too young i didn't have a license but i'd been in a car that was laden with explosives and being brought into belfast and we were stopped by the british army and that the time we had these poses in the door panels a car. in the door for me and i sitting on economics and when i got in the car because i learned a minute he i think he was more interested in looking at my legs than he was with

the car and. most of the time the ira called in warnings. that the ira's a was economic terrorism buildings not bodies. under their own rules killing civilians was wrong. but planning car bombs is not an exact science. and when the ira messed up people lots of people die. on the afternoon of the twenty first of july one thousand nine hundred seventy two the ira planted twenty two car bombs in the center of belfast. all time to go off within minutes of each other. bloody friday was the world's first mass car bomb attack. the ira phoned in warnings but one bomb prematurely exploded in oxford street bus station. killing six

passengers. many others were horribly mutilated. are you ashamed of what happened on bloody friday. there's no way that the security forces could have cared because this display of the bombs are everywhere. but the slaughter on bloody friday did not stop the ira. the bombing campaign exhilarated. in one nine hundred seventy two there were one thousand three hundred eighty two explosions. the ira leadership was now ready to bring the car bomb on to the streets of london. we had gone on it was our job to go and pick the targets and plan the operation.

on march the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy three the ira attacked aligned for the first time and planted four car bombs. one thousand year old marion price was leader of the bomb team. we went along on the morning that the bombs went off and the driver and the person he was just the time they got up at six in the morning they do for the poems to their targets and. the bombs week warthog afternoon at three o'clock. we did have a home and. marion chose for 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 the phone of for call. and the number plates on that car did not relate to that particular vehicle could be in time but with so we decided that what we would do we would go into the booth

through the rear seats where in theory and you would see that it was packed with exposure of. both one hundred eighty pounds of explosives or a problem or as we've reported from exposure if not the initiator we had no idea how long that was there or on the cloth what we just decided to do was to take new explosive away from the four hundred five we're putting fire destroyed pound bags or explode that would put them on the other saw the road or the bomb went off with us to go through. the building hadn't been evacuated and no officials preferred or the windows fortune those were what was the significance of this bomb these were the first car bombs used in england. 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. 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 might called was called out to diffuse the biggest ira bomb of all. round about ten twenty seven in the saturday morning. tremendous blast from the truck up there in bishopsgate about three hundred thousand kilograms i exploded. sort of last wave that ripped all the 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. polluted shoreditch bishopsgate with round

about one billion pounds. imagine twenty times the amount that was staged 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 that on 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 hollering 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. the f.b.i. was in charge but local police forces like the new york city bomb squad were part of the team. don sadar 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 in first that i've been to scenes in organized crime where people were killed with car bombs and completely capable korak 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 possibly the vehicle that would bring such a large vehicle bomb in here and i took my gloves 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 man number. confidential vehicle identification numbers are inscribed on different parts of a car by the manufacturer and help police have bene five stolen vehicles. at that point i made a decision and i said to the team we have to take these pieces out if i know it's against the what is 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 evidence control center but soon forensic teams confirm saddam's hunch. it was now just fifty hours from the time of the explosion and the hunt for the bomb van 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 before khan a line family owned by writer rental agency and traced that particular fan to jersey city were it was last routed to the 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 beirut and the ninety three trade center. solemn ase 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 van was deliberately part one of the towers he structural support. his aim was to bring down both towers. 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 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 at the towers and says they're still standing. grandiose and takes a glance it looks back stokely it says more money and more time and they would not be and he was pretty correct. food is why again in one thousand and twenty. you so struck in one nine hundred ninety 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 clipper 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 you know if you know this is a city under siege. it's thanks to the car bomb. 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 and 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 aside as chief investigator

. oklahoma city i mean affect on you absolutely. some of the things that i saw in the y.m.c.a. which is across the street from our building and it was one spotter and there were little children's handprints in there and it was a children's daycare 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. within that first hour my swag my scientific wild ass guess was that four thousand pounds of anfo 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 merc 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 says 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 detailed photo fed 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. raid to identify he suspects. we get him on the way in 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 commitment here and walking by going for his bail hearing please hold on to. mcveigh was arrested just two hours after the bombing as he needed to 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 that mcveigh 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 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 jet. 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.

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 does the car bomb mean for iraq. i think the car bomb change 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 it insurgency and other it's convincing american people we're losing car bomb can't be stopped time to get out. 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 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 a car bomb 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 that you 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 that their greatest terrorist weapon. it is in my opinion a car bomb is it wreaks terror in everyone any kruk any car any vehicle that prized by you could be a family vehicle. i could only see getting more enhanced by any chemical biological or nuclear material with yes a vehicle bomb is probably the most devastating most impact a terrorist could have an 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. 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 in its perfect invisibility is and will be the decisive weapon of conflict.

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