Three techno-terrorism Stingers: 7-24-96. WaPo: "Army Shows Missile Hit Is Unlikely. SAMS Not Ruled Out; Downing Jet Is Hard." The Army has run computer simulations to determine whether a U.S.-made Stinger or equivalent weapon could have hit TWA 800 and has concluded it was possible but not likely, defense officials said yesterday. (But read Kalliste's latest.) 7-24-96. NYP: "What Made Flight 800 Explode?" Dr. Oxley said that even the best laboratory technique might miss ANFO. Ammonium nitrate is readily soluble in water and would dissipate rapidly from a submerged wreck. The remaining fuel oil component of the bomb would be hard to distinguish from aviation fuel or other petroleum products. However, an ANFO bomb would have to be detonated by one of the high explosives that do not dissolve in water, which would be easier to detect. And: "Computer Expert Testifies in Terror Trial." David Swartzendruber, an investigator for Microsoft, who said the F.B.I. asked him to examine the computer's hard drive and reconstitute its files, gave the jury of the Yousef terrorism trial a technical tutorial on how he managed to retrieve files that had been deleted. ----- http://jya.com/stingy.txt (for 3, 15 kb) STI_ngy