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including our two. and in a bid to regain public trumps the forums to see the russian police forces renamed and officers retrain them to be more rigorous and pain pleased in the hope of turning out the petty officers. next it's our special report focusing on the history of the car bomb weapon that has become synonymous with the terrorism of the twenty first century. my name is bob baer. i used to be a cia agent stationed in the eleven on 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 bombs have forever shaped our history. beirut. i love beirut because. 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 there. carsten to that saw the bomb go off and suddenly i saw this big bang this white star called me the old embassy and then of course the bang and then i looked up

flames and i run over and there i saw it 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 does. sins of bombs. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs muslim car bombs. and the long drawn out civil. war going. on then i was the only expert who has this monthly income bombs in lebanon and. russia became too good at stopping. and then his adversaries decided to target him.

one day they left the boma specially for me since it was activated by remote control and as soon as i touched the bomb. they blew it up. unfairly away for two thousand and five the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri presidential cavalcade was destroyed by two ton car bomb the c.c.t.v. camera captured the vehicle this white truck. in the traffic. as hariri is 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 interact with were developed on these ferries suicide car bomb belts the grief of the police to tell you that that closing bell and i don't sleep until you see police officers. to get into the war in iraq we saw dozens of love and is 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 customs but the lebanese never created the car bomb. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century car bombs are the american invention . by the one nine hundred twenty s.

new york 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 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. sub-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 there at about twelve zero one away again or strong wagon 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. 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 bhutto who was an italian ever kissed who was a lone 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 two 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 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 had also the revolution so that whole system of capitalism government put together was what they were striking a blow at this was the first car bomber and it was the first barrel no course it's not a car and sense but it was a way to get bombs 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 and

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 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. freedom fighters of israel were determined to drive arabs out by terror from wacky saw as their rightful jewish homeland.

who started the first car bombing here in this. whose decision was that the. it was the headquarters of the 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 java a densely populated arab district. this guy says arabs a lot 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. but he did not have a monopoly on time in 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. you can't agree what sort of training did he get in germany you talk i do is go commando commander needs and he had yesterday to include that wireless devices communications and all types of explosives. six weeks after serai thousand targeted jewish stronghold ben yehuda street in the heart of

jerusalem this insanity take anyone 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. 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. word any of the dusters you knew who were quick who are the ones that where the. still no match can sustain and i think they were not just so that there was a big in them british soldiers who were working with him and. they were against the british policy keith nicely lie through people from their land and their place then

with other people thank those american who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry it out see that khomeini still. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by jewish fighters in the desert or shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you and it's a it's a fuse explosion eyelash they can go 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 a lovely member had taken part in bombing operations let me ask you this question did the truck bomb make do with the resistance. why did it made you angry

or sure make me angry but. leave when things do put to a cult. it will kill civilians being killed under war against those who will kill you to this whole. leckie 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. less. they planted four. and fallacies planted four hundred twenty people died. the car bombing only stopped in may one nine hundred forty eight when war broke out and the checkpoints became front lines. 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 heel was the chum bell or thirty something father of the estate of his a if you can get ups one to you and say believe that if they would kill him jews do not establish that state the special east of the arabs and frozen coop. or explosion and the car was exploded here how many people were killed when seven people were killed and. what would happen. if ben-gurion had this office the fame been going on with the

t.v. . the jews wouldn't establish the state because he was only a i mean he's the only leader but he was is you can say george washington george washington the new united states. sassy hating your enemy supreme leader does 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 sicilian mafia discovered

a new way to make rival mafiosa disappear life booby trapping their cars and blowing them to pieces. in sicily but 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 end of year. so we how do you know the mafia this year. because who are the two who lost the most to the finish because you. see some.

things started to change in one nine hundred fifty seven when the sicilian 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 those and the barbera is. giovanni stott there was an anti mafia campaign but he is also the name. if you have a key mafia boss cesare month. to month l o was an ally of the greco and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car bomb. a cow was blocking his drive and he needed to go beyond it to enter into. the car was exactly the same type belonged to a friend he thought he was his friend. so it got into the new car turn the key

and the explosion happened and what boy you have a school girl why did they not when they killed your own to 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 ventura trail of destruction would span the globe from ireland oklahoma and the middle east . to. 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 capitol madison. but what was it like in one

thousand seven hundred 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 saddam cells as already at war with the nixon administration. in 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 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 yellow explosion absolutely if 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 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 flame 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 white armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building and. talk about the night he bombed wisconsin.

where did the idea come from the car bomb my brother why and i were like basically you know we were considering ways to have three search center and my brother died so i was 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 co-op the morning nitrate and fuel oil and then we transported to our prep site which was a farmer's field and now basically we just put in all the ammonium nitrate and you know excess by hand oh no only just poured it into the barrel.

and you get the idea that you didn't have the internet. basically the formula offers an encyclopedia britannica under was. awesome for much of the whole thing cost. two hundred dollars for the morning 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 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 it and doing it was a message and we were trying to send it out 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 wore a movement. he served cheney 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 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 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

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