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  • In many ways it was a car- and truck-bomb war, since this was the delivery method for many of the most effective attacks of the insurgency.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In many ways it was a car- and truck-bomb war, since this was the delivery method for many of the most effective attacks of the insurgency.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In many ways it was a car- and truck-bomb war, since this was the delivery method for many of the most effective attacks of the insurgency.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In many ways it was a car- and truck-bomb war, since this was the delivery method for many of the most effective attacks of the insurgency.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • For example, I have a hard time believing that Cameron walked (well, limped) away from that truck-bomb thing with only severe lacerations to her flesh.

    "Don't you ever bat an eye." greygirlbeast 2008

  • That perception is so widespread that the Zardari government is running TV and print ads reminding the Pakistani public of the cost of extremism, from the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to last year's truck-bomb explosion at the Marriott in Islamabad.

    Pakistan’s Anger 2009

  • Just look at this suicide video of a German jihad recruit on his way to truck-bomb a U.S. military base in March.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008 2008

  • Al Qaeda's twin suicide truck-bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya Aug. 7, 1998, killed more than 220 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 4,000.

    U.S. Watch 2008

  • Shocked by a series of truck-bomb attacks on U.S. troops and installations, the government spent millions to fortify embassies and build impenetrable new ones.

    Life In The Bull's-Eye 2008

  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on those responsible for the two truck-bomb explosions that killed at least 27 in Istanbul "The U.S. paved the way for these attacks ... the U.S. is the one that started it all."

    Empty Title 2007

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