At 08:30 AM 7/28/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
At 5:36 7/28/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
Across the country, latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms show a 20 percent jump in pipe bomb incidents between 1990 and 1994.
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"We've been incredibly busy," said sheriff's bomb technician Judd Holiday. "As crime in other categories is dropping, this is going up."
The friendly Anarchist's Bookstore in San Francisco sells several books on building bombs. No Internet connection required. I would like offer another possible explanation for the increase in pipe bombings. The People are getting frustrated and a pipe bomb can be very useful device releasing one's frustration.
The local PBS station had a program on bomb detection and manufacture. It included a section with someone from the BATF explaining how Pipebombs work and included slow motion video. (It might have been an episode of NOVA. I came in in the middle.) It even included information about how nails and screws would be included for extra schrapnel. (Maybe this is part of a plot to remove funding from PBS once and for all...) The media and government types who are blaming the Internet for pipebombs do not get out enough. I have seen good working descriptions in books since I was a small child. (Of course, I actually read books as a child. And not just the pablum they expect kids to read nowadays.) Of course, since when have government and media pronouncements have had anything to do with the real world and/or truth... --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."