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Report: US Experts Discover Evidence of Global Bombmaking Network VOA News 22 Feb 2004, 14:34 UTC A published report says U.S. forensic experts have discovered evidence of a global bombmaking network used by Islamic militants in terrorist attacks in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The New York Times says in its Sunday edition that U.S. government investigators have examined fragments from hundreds of improvised explosive devices used in attacks on the three continents and have found design similarities in many of them. The newspaper quotes one forensic expert as saying many devices were made by the same bombmaker or...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — Government forensic investigators examining how terrorists manufacture improvised explosives have found indications of a global bomb-making network, and have concluded that Islamic militant bomb builders have used the same designs for car bombs in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, government officials said this week. "Linkages have been made in devices that have been used in different continents," said one forensic expert involved in the intelligence effort. "We know that we have the same bomb maker, or different bomb makers are using the same instructions."