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German 'bomb blast' injures many
BBC ^ | 9 June, 2004 | N/A

Posted on 06/09/2004 2:42:47 PM PDT by swilhelm73

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Hmm, not sure who might be behind this bombing...
1 posted on 06/09/2004 2:42:47 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: swilhelm73

Well, Germany goes out of its way not to antagonize Al Qaeda or any of the radical Arab groups, so it cant be one of them.


2 posted on 06/09/2004 2:45:23 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: swilhelm73
in a busy shopping street in the mainly Turkish district

This is the first time we've gotten this information. I would assume, in this case, particularly since I read somewhere else that many of the victims had nails in them, that somebody in the Turkish neighborhood was busy preparing a bomb to be used elsewhere. The person may not have been a Turk, but probably was a Muslim of some sort. Which makes the initial scenario (a fight between hairdressers!!!) MUCH less likely.

3 posted on 06/09/2004 2:47:31 PM PDT by livius
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not sure who might be behind this bombing...

Don't discount the Eighth United States Army Air Force.

4 posted on 06/09/2004 2:48:50 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay are ead-day)
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"We are assuming it was an attack,"

No kidding!

5 posted on 06/09/2004 2:49:25 PM PDT by Columbine (Bush '04 - Owens '08)
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To: Columbine

using nails to attack a pizza joint. diabolical.
will these people stop at nothing?


6 posted on 06/09/2004 2:53:37 PM PDT by beebuster2000 (the only thing quagmired is the lib mind)
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To: swilhelm73

Has France determined that it was not intended to target Paris?


7 posted on 06/09/2004 2:53:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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To: livius
The person may not have been a Turk, but probably was a Muslim of some sort.

Heaven knows I'd like to believe that, but the possibility exists that someone placed this explosive in the muslim district.

I've met more than a few Germans who are not enamored with the "brown people" in their country.

8 posted on 06/09/2004 2:57:00 PM PDT by Freebird Forever
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To: livius

Overwhelmingly likely it was a skinhead or neo-Nazi; quite a lot of incidents involving them attacking Turkish immigrants.


9 posted on 06/09/2004 2:58:58 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Columbine

Actually it may have been premature detonation, or a "work accident" as it's called in Gaza.

"Don't take it so hard, Ahmed, it happens to every man now and then."


10 posted on 06/09/2004 3:11:50 PM PDT by Imal (Liberals believe the state should define what is moral. Conservatives believe they have it backwards)
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To: Freebird Forever; Strategerist

I suppose that's possible. However, from what I have gleaned from the foreign press, it seems that it was in somebody's apartment. I don't think a skinhead would be living there.

Still, anything's possible - I guess we'll have to wait for more (and more reliable) info.


11 posted on 06/09/2004 3:15:28 PM PDT by livius
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Since I no the Kolbstrasse and the "quarter" you are all speculating about I have to put a few things straight her.

It is a typical "little turkey" like you would have China Town, Spanish Harlem etc.

The hottest news we have so far is...we do not know anything yet.
Except for the fact that the blast was delivered by bike in front of a barber and a pizza joint. The police does consider a terrorist attack as highly unlikely. If there is more, I will update you asap.
12 posted on 06/09/2004 3:25:05 PM PDT by sibbel
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To: Strategerist

Right and this neonazi would enter a turkish only area on its own by bike...


13 posted on 06/09/2004 3:26:05 PM PDT by sibbel
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To: Imal

No highly unlikely...


14 posted on 06/09/2004 3:27:19 PM PDT by sibbel
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To: Nonstatist

Maybe Al Qaeda is mad because they didn't do enough to keep the US out of Iraq. Maybe now they see them as useless and to be destroyed.


15 posted on 06/09/2004 3:30:45 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (Never forget.)
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To: sibbel

Thanks! We hadn't gotten the bike information here yet.


16 posted on 06/09/2004 4:06:38 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
in a busy shopping street in the mainly Turkish district
This is the first time we've gotten this information.

No, I posted this on the earlier thread more tha 4 hours earlier:

From AFP via Yahoo - Die Explosion habe sich gegen 16.00 Uhr im oder vor dem Erdgeschoss des Gebäudes in der Keup-Straße des von vielen Türken bewohnten

Or, per Babelfish: "The explosion has itself against 16.00 o'clock in or before the ground floor of the building in the Keup road from many Turks inhabited"

9 posted on 06/09/2004 12:13:57 PM CDT by PAR35

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150534/posts?page=9#9

17 posted on 06/09/2004 4:47:33 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: sibbel

Since you know the area, where in Mulheim did it occur?


18 posted on 06/09/2004 4:51:46 PM PDT by PAR35
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Sorry, guess I didn't see it. There have been several threads on this today, and I haven't had time to read them all. Thanks!


19 posted on 06/09/2004 4:56:47 PM PDT by livius
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To: swilhelm73

I think Turks were targets in this attack, and I'll go with neo-nazis as the attackers. Turks aren't terrorists unless they're the Kurdish separatists.


20 posted on 06/09/2004 5:43:44 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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