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FBI Hunts for Suspected Wisconsin Campus Bomber 40 Years Later
AOL News ^ | 8-23-10 | Allan Lengel

Posted on 08/24/2010 12:30:17 PM PDT by STONEWALLS

(Aug. 23) -- Forty years ago Tuesday, a van loaded with explosives rocked the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, killing one person and wounding three others -- all part of a protest against the war in Vietnam. It was also the biggest domestic terrorism attack until the Oklahoma City bombing 25 years later.

Three of four of the anti-war culprits were captured and served time in prison. But 40 years later, the hunt for the fourth suspect -- Leo Burt, a student and aspiring journalist at the time -- continues.

"We're still pursuing leads like he's still alive," Bruce Carroll, a campus police detective assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, told AOL News. "I've expressed my doubts in the past that he's still alive. It would be very hard to live totally undercover for 40 years. That being said, stranger things have happened.

"But we've had a bunch of leads and we still have leads that are active," he said.

On Monday, the FBI upped the profile of the case, prominently displaying a story on its website that began: "Where is Leo Burt? You can earn up to $150,000 by helping us find him."

(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: uofwisconsin; vietnamwarprotests
"We did what we had to do; we did what we felt a lot of other people should have done," he said. "I don't care what public opinion is; we did what was right."

....unrepentant a**hole...reminds me of Ayers

1 posted on 08/24/2010 12:30:20 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: STONEWALLS

Look in the current cabinet of czars.


2 posted on 08/24/2010 12:31:57 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

I’d just say check Obama’s friend list.


3 posted on 08/24/2010 12:32:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Start with the list of White Visitors since 20 January 2009.


4 posted on 08/24/2010 12:37:52 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: STONEWALLS

My Dad was a career LEO
Until 1988 he would check his car for bombs because of these A-holes. I wasn’t allowed to go near the cars until he had cleared it and told me it was okay.

I consider them a threat still until they have paid for their crimes in full. Even then they are to be watched with suspicion.


5 posted on 08/24/2010 12:38:05 PM PDT by King_Corey (www.kingcorey.com)
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To: King_Corey

Has anyone thought of seeking out Bill Ayers or Bernandine Dohrn?


6 posted on 08/24/2010 12:39:47 PM PDT by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Look in Obama’s cabinet.


7 posted on 08/24/2010 12:40:34 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Free America52

I think they were busy stirring up a riot in Detroit or something.


8 posted on 08/24/2010 12:41:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: STONEWALLS

Check the Political Science dept.


9 posted on 08/24/2010 12:45:33 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: STONEWALLS

FBI Wanted Poster

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/dt/burt_lf.htm


10 posted on 08/24/2010 12:48:54 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: STONEWALLS

FBI needs to cross check the JournoList.


11 posted on 08/24/2010 1:08:18 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: STONEWALLS

The Stroker Regime probably wants to give him a community service award.


12 posted on 08/24/2010 1:10:42 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: STONEWALLS
In 1969:

Retouched:


13 posted on 08/24/2010 1:11:34 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: meadsjn

Look in his blackberry contacts list.


14 posted on 08/24/2010 1:14:02 PM PDT by joesjane ((The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling))
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To: STONEWALLS
Usually when you see a story like this about a long-ago crime it means they are on the verge of making an arrest.
15 posted on 08/24/2010 1:15:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Parmenio

Looks like Ayers to me.


16 posted on 08/24/2010 1:21:49 PM PDT by Mouton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That is exactly what I was thinking...the story line normally goes someone saw the picture and it looked like so and so.


17 posted on 08/24/2010 1:22:54 PM PDT by Mouton
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