8-24-96. NYP: "Investigators Look at History of Terrorism to Compile a List of Suspects in Crash." Over the years, terrorists have demonstrated frightening expertise in making bombs and concealing them. "The fact of the matter is that we found out terrorists could create bombs that were very, very difficult to detect," says the FBI. "A fairly small amount, well placed, can do the job," said Dr. Jimmie Oxley, of the NRC's airline security committee. "A colleague once said he could do it with a gram, in the right place." Bomb-making technology continually advances, as Israeli authorities discovered in 1986 when they intercepted a suitcase being smuggled in from the Gaza Strip. The terrorists appeared to have spun the suitcase on a centrifuge that allowed the plastic explosive to flow into its corners and virtually disappear. Ariel Merari, who has studied hundreds of terrorist incidents, says bombers are limited only by their own imaginations when it comes to building bombs and finding ways to get them aboard airliners. "However," he said, "the use of sophisticated bombs are more likely to be the work of state-sponsored terrorism than anything else." ----- http://jya.com/hyster.txt (11 kb) Via: www.anonymizer.com HYS_ter