FBI WILL PAY $500,000 FOR BOMBING LEAD.Byline: Kevin Sack The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times With its investigative leads The term investigative leads refers to any information which could potentially aid in the successful resolution of the investigation. For example investigative leads pertaining to robbery offense might include: description of the perpetrator(s), visible impression(s) of starting to dry up, the FBI on Monday took several steps, including the posting of a half-million dollar reward, intended to generate tips that might solve the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park Centennial Olympic Park is a 21 acre (85,000 m²) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA that is owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. in July. At a news conference Monday afternoon, the first held by investigators since two days after the bombing, an FBI official also said a park visitor had slightly moved the backpack containing the bomb before it exploded, unknowingly changing its position in a way that sent much of its shrapnel shrapnel Originally, a type of projectile invented by the British artillery officer Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), containing small spherical bullets and an explosive charge to scatter the shot and fragments of the shell casing. skyward sky·ward adv. & adj. At or toward the sky. sky  wards adv. rather than horizontally toward the crowd.
``Had it been left in place, apparently, where the explosion would have directed parallel to the ground, we would have seen a huge number of casualties and many, many, many more people killed and injured than what actually occurred,'' said Weldon Kennedy, the deputy director of the FBI. Kennedy declined to say whether the FBI had learned of the pack's being ``nudged'' as a result of an interview with a witness or through the bureau's review of videotape of the scene. And he said he did not know the motive of whoever moved it. The pipe bomb detonated on July 27 at 1:20 a.m., about 23 minutes after a security guard, Richard A. Jewell, had pointed out the backpack to the police. The explosion killed one woman and injured 111 other people among a crowd gathered in the park to enjoy a concert and celebrate the Summer Olympics. A Turkish cameraman died of a heart attack while covering the blast and its aftermath. At the news conference Monday, FBI officials for the first time played an audio tape of the anonymous 911 telephone call that warned in 11 dispassionate dis·pas·sion·ate adj. Devoid of or unaffected by passion, emotion, or bias. See Synonyms at fair1. dis·pas words that a bomb would soon detonate det·o·nate intr. & tr.v. det·o·nat·ed, det·o·nat·ing, det·o·nates To explode or cause to explode. [Latin d in the crowded park. They also displayed a replica of the olive military-style backpack, which had been placed under a park bench near an AT&T sound and light tower. |
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