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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/recent-history-homemade-bombs-built-united-states***SNIP
Jan. 17, 2011. White supremacist Kevin Harpham put a backpack bomb along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, WA., but it was found and disabled. The pipe bomb was loaded with lead fishing weights coated in rat poison, which can inhibit blood clotting in wounds, AOL.com reported. Harpham was sentenced to 32 years in prison.
May 1, 2010. Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad left an explosives-laden SUV in New Yorks Times Square. Smoke was seen coming from the car and the bomb was found and disabled. The car was packed the car with more than 100 pounds of fertilizer, but not the kind that would explode, ABC-TV reported. Other news reports said he put the fertilizer in pressure-cookerslike the Boston bombsand used firecrackers as the trigger. Shahzad was taken off a plane by police and was sentenced to life in prison.
Dec. 25, 2009. A Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was subdued by passengers and the crew after trying to blow up a plane in midflight from Paris to Detroit by using plastic explosives hidden in his undergarments. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Sept. 11, 2001. Four commercial jets were hijacked by 19 al-Qaida militants and used as suicide bombs, destroying New York City's World Trade Center towers, crashing into the Pentagon and into a field in Pennsylvania en route to Washington. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)That just gave me a chill. There is another culture out there that I just don't understand. A bunch of privileged creeps who never had to sacrifice. Their leaders brainwash them into thinking they have been harmed by minorities. The are of low intellect and surely failed civics and science in school.
RKP5637
(67,031 posts)creeps existed in my earlier life. And the innocents they kill or harm for life. It's all incredibly chilling.
cali
(114,904 posts)that is stretching the definition of homemade bomb to absurdity.
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Javaman
(62,439 posts)I thought about the Weather Underground in the late '60s and early 70's...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground#Major_activities_and_suspected_activities
and the anarchists in the 19teens...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bombings