Article: The defensive front line. (Law Enforcement).

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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