Car Bomb Clip: The Wall Street Car Bombing

Surprisingly, the car bomb was born not in the Middle East or Northern Ireland, but in the United States.

Clip from the Disinformation film Car Bomb, available now: http://www.amazon.com/Car-Bomb-Robert-Baer/dp/B003Z8ZC8E

Forget about nuclear missiles, the decisive weapon of the 21st century is the car bomb. We now know you can defeat a superpower, start a civil war or just blow up your own government with a trunk-load of homemade explosives and a battered old car. From the Middle East to Oklahoma, Afghanistan and most recently New York's Times Square, the car bomb has shaped human conflict. Even today it remains the number one terrorist threat across the world. In this startling film, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer, whose life was depicted by George Clooney in the Oscar-winning movie Syriana, uncovers the history of this extraordinary weapon for the first time.

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Actually, it was not technically a "car bomb" for the bomb was carried on a horse-drawn carriage. Sadly, in 1920 there was no such thing as closing a crime scene and the evidence that could have solved the crime was cleaned up with the debris.