Sentences with phrase «notorious bomb attacks»

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Those bombings later became notorious not so much for the people who were killed and maimed in the attack but because the wrong men went to prison for the crime.

In the most notorious attack, former Allende cabinet member Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in a September 1976 car bomb explosion in Washington, D.C — in Dinges's words, «the most egregious act of foreign - inspired terrorism ever committed in the U.S. capital» prior to 9/11.