Explosion in downtown Toronto - One dead (explosives strapped to the suspect)

CTV ^ | Self

[Tasha Dasha Doo]

It is on CTV news channel.

Just breaking - explosion in a coffee shop in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Reporter just talked about some sort of explosives strapped to a guy and explosion occured in a busy district of the city.

Will keep you posted!

[Smokin' Joe]

There has been a lot of thread consumed here on nomenclature. Might I propose we simply call a spade a spade and use the term "terrorist bomber"? with whatever modifiers you deem apropriate.

Terror is the goal, not necessarily a high body count.

BTW, apparently this place is in close proximity to a very busy subway station, and that may have been the target.

[Don Joe]

"Actually, "homicide bomber" is the NON politically-correct term.

Accepting for discussion's sake that this is in fact correct, we are left with an awkward rationale for terminology usage.

For example, "the N-word" is also "NON politically-correct". BIGTIME!

Does this mean we should therefore be using it? Is "political incorrectness" the decision-maker in all cases regarding terminology usage?

Somehow I don't think so.

[Timewarp]
"A squadron of Japanese bombers attacked a carrier group in the Pacific yesterday. The War Department was at a loss to explain why they felt that the Japanese would be unable to maintain this level of attack on an ongoing basis. A rumor made the rounds, suggesting that these bombers were on suicide missions, but the rumor was quickly squelched, when it was pointed out that the obvious purpose of the attacks was to kill American sailors."

[ozaukeemom]

How about a "suicide (mass?) murderer"? No need to identify the weapon used.Just a suggestion.

[ClashOnBroadway]

Howabout just calling them killbots?

[restornu]

my radio news said it was a gas leak and someone saw gas leaking and ran out of the shop, which I don't how you see something you smell??

[sheik yerbouty]

"Move along, nothing to see here.."

[adam_az]

" They weren't "suicide bombers", so we can't call them "homicide bombers" :) And, they weren't trying to kill anyone, so I guess we can't call them "bombers" either!"

No no no.

They're the minutemen of Michael Moore's revolution.

Out to kill all us little Eichmanns.

[JustPiper]

Love your handle, welcome to FR!

[ARCADIA]

"that most people don't commit suicide by carrying a can of gasoline into a mens room at an eatery. that's what we know."

Nor do suicides walk around with a clock in a bag.

[LayoutGuru2]

Best Copy of 09-11-01 fame...

Not sure what you are referring to here. Can you elaborate?

[Smokin' Joe]

They could have "Gerald Forded" it into the ground like those silly "W.I.N." buttons that would not go away.

I remember those. People were wearing them upside down and saying "not in my time"....

[restornu]

Hindu News

Police say one person dead in explosion in downtown Toronto
Toronto, April. 3 (AP): The heart of Toronto's trendy shopping district was brought to a standstill after an explosion killed one man at a popular Tim Hortons coffee shop.

Police would not confirm reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast yesterday with explosives strapped to his body. Another nearby Tim Hortons was shut down later in the day when a suspicious package was found there.

Police inspector Nick Memme would only say that an explosion occurred in the washroom at the rear of the restaurant, but said few other details were immediately available.

"We're early on in the investigation, still," Memme said.

Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang; police said no one else was involved and there were no other injuries.

Eunice Almeida, 23, a regular patron of the coffee-and-donut outlet, said she spoke to employees shortly after it was evacuated. One woman told her the blast was felt as a sudden shock through the store.

"There was an explosion in the men's washroom, then there was a stampede and everybody ran out," Almeida told The Canadian Press.

A Tim Hortons spokesman confirmed the dead man was not an employee, but his identity was not immediately known.

Later yesterday, a second Tim Hortons outlet in Toronto was locked down after a suspicious package was found there. Police confirmed an emergency task force unit had been dispatched to the second location - just a few subway stations north of the first - and the area was evacuated.

[restornu]

Related: Suspicious package found in 2nd coffee chain in Toronto

OTTAWA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The explosion that happened in a coffee shop in Canada's Toronto was a "possible criminal" case, local fire department said.

News from China View

Forensic investigators talk with a uniformed member of the Toronto police department outside a Tim Hortons coffee shop in downtown Toronto April 2. (Xinhua/Reuters) Daryl Fuglerud, a spokesman with Toronto's fire department, said the investigation has been turned over to police because it was a "possible criminal" case.

One man was killed in the explosion.

Fuglerud told reporters the man who died had burns to his body.But there was not much of a fire, he said.

The blast occurred in the washroom of Tim Hortons, a chain snack food store located near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor Streets,just after 1 p.m.local time, Canadian Television reported.

No other injuries were reported.

Police have cordoned off approximately one city block and evacuated the area as a precaution.

Emergency officials and an explosives disposal unit is now on the scene. Police have began investigation, but the cause of the blast is unknown yet. Enditem

[Junior_G]

Does this mean we should therefore be using it? Is "political incorrectness" the decision-maker in all cases regarding terminology usage?

The determining factor should be whether the terminology adds clarity or takes it away. That is why the term suicide bomber is preferable to homicide bomber----both are murderers, but the former is clearly killing themself as well. The term "homicide bomber" just sounds redundant and retarded. For the same reason, I am extremely aggravated by the politically correct terms that have replaced all of the gender-specific words out there. "Flight Attendant" instead of "Stewardess" is the most common example. Somehow it has become sexist to acknowledge the sex of an individual in their title, so we make our language more ambiguous (and more worthless) just to please the wailing harpies of PC.

[restornu]

5 Canadians hurt in suicide attack
Toronto Star, Canada - Mar 3, 2006
... with the Canadian provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in downtown Kandahar were ... The explosion damaged the light armoured vehicle, piercing tires and leaving ...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1141339819313&call_pageid=968332188492


Iranian man accused of running down students over treatment of ...
North County Times, CA - Mar 7, 2006
... of the damage caused by the explosion," Aguilar said ... attended the ceremony at a downtown sports stadium ... farewell from Brigadier's rider, Toronto Constable Kevin ...
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/03/07/backpage/1_6_0616_30_06.prt

[restornu]

The Sydney Morning Herald

Toronto cafe explosion kills one

[steve86]

Haven't looked to see if this is same Best Copy...

Toronto terrorist link probed
By JASON BOTCHFORD AND TOM GODFREY -- Toronto Sun
Sep 28, 2001

As police sifted through evidence, residents of a Toronto apartment complex were stricken with fear over claims at least two of the suspected suicide hijackers had roamed their halls in the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Some tenants in a Jameson Ave. complex suggested they saw at least two men in their building -- Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi -- who were later accused of hijacking two of the U.S. airliners in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Atta is believed to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11 that plowed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Al-Shehhi is suspected of flying United Airlines Flight 175 that crashed into the Pentagon.

"There is a terrible feeling here ... that we probably lived among terrorists," said a tenant identified as Chris who lived in the same building where Nabil Al-Marabh -- described as a close associate of prime suspect Osama bin Laden -- stayed.

Two other tenants said they recognized Al-Shehhi from a photo in a newspaper.

"Many of the residents have been picking out the same man when they looked at the photos of the (suspected) hijackers," said Donna Dunphy, the superintendent of the Jameson Ave. building -- one of four sites raided late Wednesday by police collecting information on a suspected terrorist cell.

"People are petrified," Dunphy said. "The tenants are scared" there could be reprisals.

Workers at a pharmacy around the corner from the Jameson Ave. building said they immediately recognized from newspaper photographs Mohamed Atta, believed to be the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. and a cousin of Al-Shehhi.

RCMP Const. Howard Adams said reported Toronto sightings of some of the 19 named hijackers are being investigated.

RCMP officers yesterday went over evidence seized after dozens of RCMP, Toronto Police and Peel officers conducted the simultaneous raids at Best Copy Printing, on Charles St. W., and Toronto apartments at 130 Jameson Ave., 190 Woolner Ave., and 121 Agnes St., in Mississauga.

Police are focused on phone records and money trails that could lead to other suspects here and in the U.S. responsible for Sept. 11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Adams said the warrants for the searches have been ordered sealed.

Police allege they've found some "interesting" items among the evidence that could provide links to some of the 200 Islamic men detained by the FBI since the attacks. They also seized several blank Canadian immigration forms, as well as fake forms already bearing photos.

Officers spent five hours at the copy shop gathering paper stock, chemicals, and plastic lamination. Police allege the shop may have been used for manufacturing fake IDs for some of the suspected terrorists.

Court documents show Best Copy is owned by Ahmad Shehab, who listed his mailing address as Jameson Ave., which was among the addresses searched by police.

Shehab is the uncle of Toronto refugee claimant Nabil Al-Marabh, 35, who was arrested in Chicago last week.

[nw_arizona_granny]

nd did we ever find out what happened to that pizza delivery kid in
Pennsylvania that had the bomb strapped to him?<<<

Calpernia, wasn't his fairly recently?

Or are you talking about the one with the bomb welded to his neck?

Who died, while the police tried to figure out how to take it off.

He was middle aged, delivered a pizza, out in the country, was next seen robbing a bank, with a bomb welded to his neck?

Is that still unsolved?

[nw_arizona_granny]

"Exploding batteries" or something like that?<<<

Not sure that I can give an exact report on the story, something like this:

Customer spots a bomb in the restroom of a restaurant in the San Francisco area, yes it was leaking "something", {Drano is popular for leaks and filling soft drink cans, for drinking by the un-knowing}.

Full bomb alert, procedure.

Then the word came out that a "homeless person" had found the flashlight in the bushes, picked it up and noticed it was leaking, so he took it in the restaurant and put it in the bathroom.........

end of news on it as far as I know......

[LayoutGuru2]

Collar Key In Deliveryman Death (Erie pizza delivery bank robbery ...

(CBS/AP) The FBI on Tuesday released photos of a metal collar found around the neck of a pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and then was killed when a bomb ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/974616/posts - 41k - Cached - Similar pages