Steve Neavling
ticklethrewire.com
Step inside the FBI’s bomb warehouse outside of Washington, where experts analyze bombs used to injure and kill thousands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Businessweek reports that 700 people work at the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center.
It’s not easy work. Most of the bombs are assembled with objects like radios, cell phones, sandals, circuit boards, burlap sacks, egg timers, wristwatches, and kitchen utensils, according to Businessweek.
They are industrious—they make bombs out of everything,” bomb analyst Ruel Espinosa told CNN.
The analysts have helped identify more than 1,700 people with terrorist ties, lifting a total of at least 6,000 fingerprints.
“Exploiting the intelligence from explosive devices has proven critical to saving American lives in war zones,” says Robert Mueller III, director of the FBI when the lab was created in 2003.
