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Operations  September 24, 2010  Fla. bank robbers strap bomb to
abducted teller  A teller was kidnapped from his home by robbers
who strapped a suspected bomb to his chest and used him to steal
money  By Tony Winton Associated Press  CORAL GABLES, Fla. —
Bank robbers pulled off a dramatic heist Friday, strapping a
bomb to a teller and ordering him to steal as much money as he
could grab from the vault — all while his father was being held
hostage.  It began when the three masked, gun-toting thieves
burst into the teller's apartment shortly after midnight.  The
men held the teller and his father hostage in the suburban
Kendall apartment for seven hours, waiting for morning when the
teller usually helped open his Bank of America branch near the
University of Miami campus, according to the FBI and local
police. One suspect stayed with the father, while the other two
and the teller left for the bank in the teller's red 1998 Ford
Mustang.  Strapped to the t