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Explosion in downtown Toronto - One dead (explosives strapped to the suspect)
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Posted on 04/02/2006 12:39:39 PM PDT by 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!


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; explosion; falsealarm; gasinrestroom; movealong; notanemployee; nothingtoseehere; notterrorism; terrorism; terroristbombing; timhortons; toronto; workaccident
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To: Huck

Here in Oklahoma we now understand the difference between a homicide bomber and a suicide bomber. The young man who blew himself up outside the OU stadium was a suicide bomber and intended no harm to anyone (other than himself). We know this is true because the authorities tell us so. Now if he had meant to kill anyone he would have been a homicide bomber. Or so the authorities tell us. There is a possibility that he was a failed homicide bomber who was misidentified as a suicide bomber, but we're waiting for the authorities to tell us. Ya see how it works? Huh?

Well we don't either.


381 posted on 04/02/2006 3:40:54 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: jiggyboy

If a second bomb was found, you're quite right. So was this in fact directed against the Brits?


382 posted on 04/02/2006 3:42:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Yes, precisely my point, LOL, I don't' think it was played up much in history class! It is incomprehensible to imagine any sympathy in newspapers today.

Hopefully, the sorry state of victim-hood, and sympathetic press that has been given to the Islamic cults who have roamed the globe murdering innocents with impunity for the last 3 decades, will too someday bring shame. Will we have to wait another 90 years to see it?

383 posted on 04/02/2006 3:42:46 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: rockabyebaby

"Bush's fault.............:)"

Nope. Radical Quaker Sect.


384 posted on 04/02/2006 3:42:53 PM PDT by lawdude (2006 Republican bumper sticker : Vote Republican: We are NOT democrats!)
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To: Sacajaweau

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385 posted on 04/02/2006 3:43:05 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: michigander

I see your point...


386 posted on 04/02/2006 3:46:40 PM PDT by null and void (Start worrying. Details to follow...)
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To: null and void

Great minds think alike!!


387 posted on 04/02/2006 3:48:11 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: roses of sharon
The mob was always presented as "romantic", in movies and newspapers, forever it seems.

It's a hang over from the popular gangster films of the 30's and 40's. Which in themselves were a carry over from the romanticizing of the outlaws of the old west.

We just love our criminals. At least on film or paper.

388 posted on 04/02/2006 3:49:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Sign up to donate monthly and you will be automatically entered in our "Win a Bear Hug Contest")
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To: advance_copy

"Terrorists are attacking Canada. Bastards."

Don't be so hard on the Canuks.


389 posted on 04/02/2006 3:49:35 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: ohioWfan
No it was not.

Real life never seems to translate into movies, history, ect.

Maybe modern communication will never let history be written by the opinion makers in Hollywood and NY/MSM, again, we can only hope.
390 posted on 04/02/2006 3:52:50 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: null and void
There is major cover-up going on....


One killed in Canada coffee-shop explosion

Sun Apr 2, 2006 5:55 PM ET

TORONTO (Reuters) - One person was killed when a device exploded in a downtown Toronto coffee shop on Sunday, and police said they had no clues on who the victim was or what exactly caused the blast.

Staff Sergeant Don Cole said the blast took place just after 1 p.m. EDT in the washroom of a Tim Hortons shop, a coffee and doughnut chain that was recently spun off from parent company Wendy's International Inc.

One man was killed.

"It appears there was a device, but we don't know whether the person brought it in with him, or it he was an innocent party, or if he was a suicide, we just don't know," he said.

"It's not something that just blew up by itself, it was some device."

Cole said he had no information about the man who died. Fire department spokesman Daryl Fuglerud told media at the scene that the man who died had burns to his body, although the explosion had not caused much smoke.

"It doesn't appear that there was much of a fire at all," Fuglerud said.

Police closed off a busy block close to one of Toronto's main shopping districts as they investigated the cause of the explosion and used a remote controlled device to trigger a second device after finding a suspicious package.

"It was just garbage," Cole said.

Police also evacuated a second Tim Hortons further away from Toronto's downtown core after a suspicious package was reported, but Cole said the second evacuation seemed to be merely a precaution. "It will probably turn out to be nothing -- just garbage," he said.


"... we just don't know," he said.

We just don't want to say, I say.

391 posted on 04/02/2006 3:54:47 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Sacajaweau

The Brits?


392 posted on 04/02/2006 3:56:52 PM PDT by fanfan ( We have become the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world.)
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To: Allan

"The police chief wants to emphasize
that this is only an isolated incident.
The people in the neighborhood don't have to worry.
At this point
it looks like it either was an accident
or the person wanted to injure himself."

"I am greatly reassured."

Yes, we can all rest now - it was an accident. I wonder how many of us have almost accidentally blown ourselves up. They must think we are brainless.


393 posted on 04/02/2006 3:58:33 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: michigander

It may be as they say but they are sure sounding evasive.


394 posted on 04/02/2006 3:59:07 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: michigander
"It's not something that just blew up by itself, it was some device."

The crickets Im hearing are telling me that it wasnt a Catholic, Jew, or Hindu..

395 posted on 04/02/2006 3:59:40 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Cynthia McKinney- the true face (hairstyle) of the Democrats...)
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To: michigander

Gotta love Rooters. Tim Hortons "recently spun off" Wendy's.
Tim's has been around for many, many years in Canada and I've been avoiding eating there just as long.

Cheers
Jim


396 posted on 04/02/2006 3:59:45 PM PDT by gymbeau (Alberta. Bound.)
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To: JudyinCanada

I wonder how many people
riding the subway tomorrow
will think it was an 'isolated incident'
just an accident?

I have to take the subway to the Bloor/Yonge area tomorrow.
It's going to be fun.


397 posted on 04/02/2006 4:01:50 PM PDT by Allan (*-O)):~{>)
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To: CindyDawg
It may be as they say but..

"It was just garbage," Cole said.

That sounds about right.

398 posted on 04/02/2006 4:03:27 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Allan

If it is terrorism, that's the plan. They want you to worry.


399 posted on 04/02/2006 4:04:11 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

I don't think insurgent is a euphemism. Neither does the dictionary. It is a word with a specific definition.


400 posted on 04/02/2006 4:04:48 PM PDT by Huck (All things in moderation, including moderation.)
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