Are car bombs at airports next?
Published Sun, Nov 26 2006 10:37 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror, Annoyances
Could we be seeing harbingers of domestic terrorism? Yesterday a couple of kids detonated two acid bombs in a Wal-Mart in Skowhegan, Maine. Today a suspicious looking device was discovered in the trunk of a rental car at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
MINNEAPOLIS
The FBI was helping in the search Sunday for a person who left a suspected explosive device in the trunk of a rental car at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The Bloomington Police Department's bomb squad detonated the device, finding it contained no explosive material. But airport spokesman Pat Hogan said it appeared to be an attempt at either crafting a bomb or something that looked like one.
"It had wires coming out of it, and shrapnel attached, and it was concealed in the cargo area in a way where you wouldn't see it if you were just casually looking into the trunk," Hogan said.
The first incident looked like domestic terrorism, whether targeted at shoppers in general, or Wal-Mart in particular, until the perpetrators turned out to be a couple of teenage kids. The kids have been arrested, but whether this was just a prank remains to be seen. The fact is, the kids did set off two bombs in a highly public place.
The second incident could have been a dry run, or a failed attempt at creating a bomb. In any case, these two incidents point out just how vulnerable we still are to terrorist attacks.
Hat tip: National Terror Alert Response Center via Stop the ACLU.
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