Plot to blow up Dearborn mosque foiled by tip to police From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/a

[nalnn]

Source: Detroit News

A decorated Army veteran accused of plotting to blow up a Metro Detroit mosque served time in federal prison for threatening to kill President George W. Bush and bomb a Vermont veterans' clinic in 2002.

Roger Stockham, 63, who flew 600 combat helicopter missions in Vietnam, is behind bars in Michigan after he drove from his home in California last week and parked a car with a trunk full of explosives outside the Islamic Center of America, authorities said.

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Acting on a tip, Dearborn police thwarted the alleged plot by arresting Stockham outside the sprawling religious center, one of the largest mosques in North America. At the time, 500 members were attending a funeral at the mosque.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110131/METRO01/101310345/Plot-to-blow-up-Dearborn-mosque-foiled-by-tip-to-police#ixzz1CjcTVP4Q


Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110131/METRO01/101310345/Plot-to-blow-up-Dearborn-mosque-foiled-by-tip-to-police

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Anyone here from Detroit? What is going on there?

[DeSwiss]

1. How does one "blow-up" a mosque with firecrackers? - n/t

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Exactly.

Let's not get caught up in all the hyperbole of the corp media.

[slackmaster]

6. You don't, but you can cause injuries both directly and through panic

Even Class C ones are dangerous.

[thereismore]

2. Somebody needs a "left-wing" terrorist? nt

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Why would this guy travel all the way from California to Michigan?

There are surely 'targets of opportunity' closer to home. I wonder if the wingnut loons have been obsessing over Muslims in greater Detroit and whether this guy had been reading their paranoid rants.

[slackmaster]

7. Because he's a fucking nut-jobbie

No rational reason is needed.

[nalnn]

5. Sad

It really saddens me to see a veteran of that horrible war fall this low. My dad suffered from PTSD after Vietnam. So bad, I credit it with killing him at the untimely age he did. I wonder if this guy was in a similar boat?