Expo wasn’t just fighting extremists but also financial difficulties. Threats against the staff, hard work, late nights, and financial troubles wore them down, but the biggest ordeal came on June 28, 1999. A car bomb injured a journalist who wrote for Expo, along with his eight-year-old son. The man’s girlfriend, also a journalist, was traumatized when she found her partner and son among the splintered metal and pieces of glass.
