"As each issue bubbles up, analysts or providers of capital to the firm have to say, 'OK, what other tape bombs are lying in the dusty lines of Citi's balance sheet?'" David Knutson, a credit analyst with Legal and General Investment Management, told Bloomberg.
He admitted spending an afternoon helping a group of men in a village assemble IEDs, describing how he was asked to wrap tape around bomb components.
He admitted spending an afternoon helping a group of men in a village assemble improvised explosive devices, describing how he was asked to wrap tape around bomb components.
In 1988, it was baggage checked through Frankfurt to London and onward to the United States that concealed a tape-recorder bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
American officials said Mr. Quso had planned to tape the bombing from a hill above the harbor of Aden, where the destroyer was docked, and to use the tape to recruit terrorists.
To the Editor: The "person of interest" in the New York City attempted car bombing is "a white man who appeared to be in his 40s" ("Police Seeking Man Taped Near Bomb Scene," front page, May 3).
The archive includes instruction tapes on bomb-making and on how to shoot surface-to-air weapons, as well as the first meeting of Osama bin Laden and other Qaeda leaders with foreign journalists in May 1998, and other tapes -- often violent -- contributed by affiliated groups in Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere.
Rodriguez knew the tapes were potentially a ticking time bomb and wanted to destroy them.
These officials said that the fact that the tape began after the bombing, and appeared to have been heavily edited, was one of the concerns that the F.B.I. had raised with the Yemenis in pressing for fuller cooperation.
