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Article: The defensive front line. (Law Enforcement).
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- Regulation
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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SEPTEMBER 11 WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME that terrorists struck targets within the United States. Only eight years before, a band of Islamic extremists led by Ramzi Yousef successfully detonated a minibus filled with 1,100 lbs. of explosives in the parking garage of the same World Trade Center. Three years before that, associates of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar firebombed a Drug Enforcement Administration office in Fort Myers, Florida. Before he was apprehended in 1996, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 over a 17-year period. And in 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people when he detonated a massive bomb just outside the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Office ...
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Transcript: FACT SHEET: THE UNITED STATES AND NIGERIA: ...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
August 26, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... establish a resettlement center. Law enforcement. To help combat rampant crime in the region, the United States is expanding anti-crime programs ... assistance programs for Nigerian law enforcement organizations. These training ...
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