This comes from today's (Wed. July 31) LI Newsday, though the byline is the AP: "Bombing Becoming All Too Popular" The Associated Press Washington - The number of Americans attacking and attempting to attack each other with bombs each year has nearly doubled this decade. For every Olympic park or Oklahamo City tragedy, police report dozens of foiled attempts where death and destruction are narrowly averted. [..] The rapid escalation poses a vexing problem for law enforcement. Unlike international terrorists with recognized agendas, these culprits are most often low-profile operators plotting in the privacy of back yards, garages and basements with easily obtained materials and simple instructions straight off the Internet. [..] In 1989, there were 1,699 criminal bombings attemted or carried out nationwide. By 1994, the last year with complete figures, the number has risen to 3,163, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Local cases, which seldom make national headlines, demonstrate the breadth of the threat. [Examples follow...only one names the Internet:] In Baton-Rouge, La., an 18-year-ooold dropout and two friends were indicted this month for stealing bomb-making materials from two high-school chemistry labs, Court records allege the three plotted to blow up a train returning the young woman's parents from vacation to get insurance money, and had followed a terrorist handbook published on the Internet. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.