Posted on 05/27/2008 11:45:44 PM PDT by HAL9000
Lousy explosives. They should have gone up in a sympathetic detonation -- triggered by the first one...
It's sarcasm, right?
A few speed radars were blow up over the last couple of years in France. The heinous contraptions are armored machines that take a photo of your plate when you speed by. The perps were thought to be excitable people fed up by constant speeding fine.
I am shocked to see that the French Post Office, this model of governmental agency, harbored one of these apprentice-terrorists. (/sarc)
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Suspected ‘speed camera’ guerrilla blows himself up
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 28, 2008 | Henry Samuel
Posted on May 28, 2008 5:24:05 PM PDT by PROCON
A Frenchman suspected of involvement in a wave of attacks against speed cameras near Paris had both hands blown off this morning when his home-made bomb exploded in his flat. Police said his condition was critical.
Interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said “multiple clues” pointed to the 41-year old postal worker being linked to the Nationalist Revolutionary Army Faction (Fnar), a shadowy “guerrilla” group which has claimed responsibility for destroying dozens of speed traps.
Investigators say the man exclaimed: “I am from the Fnar” when firemen arrived at his flat in Clichy-La-Garenne, west of Paris.
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