The Absolute Best Response to Terrorism Ever
According to p. 127 of The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual, by Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler:
"When a women's collective claimed credit for the bombing of Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, in October 1970, the Cambridge police gallantly defended them.
'This was a very sophisticated bomb,' a police spokesman said. 'We feel that women wouldn't be capable of making such a bomb.'"
PS: Even more ironic is that the 1970 Harvard bombing is primarily remembered by historians as "a moment of light", as the explosives accomplished little real damage to the facility but did successfully unearth the long-lost Bonfil Collection, a set of nearly 29,000 photos of the Middle East so valuable as to be called "one of the great photographic collections of all time." The discovery revitalized the entire institute. Read a full article on it here.