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Explosion in downtown Toronto - One dead (explosives strapped to the suspect)
CTV ^ | Self

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: Ramius
Bwaahahahaha... Okay then. Whatever you say, sport.

LOL! I should have warned you when you defended my post earlier. Apparently, some people take the term "homicide bomber" very, very seriously and have grown quite attached to it.

461 posted on 04/02/2006 5:52:40 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Tasha Dasha Doo

Christian exremists? Conservative extremists?


462 posted on 04/02/2006 5:52:52 PM PDT by isrul
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To: BenLurkin

It could be a case of premature jihadulation..


463 posted on 04/02/2006 5:55:51 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Enduring Freedom
Thanks for the additional report.

From the link:
"He's not a strap-on al-Qaida bomber guy," Toronto Police Staff Sgt. Don Cole said Sunday evening. "It sounds to me like a guy who either wanted to do a torch job or commit suicide.

Well, maybe so. They had several hours to come to that conclusion (or come up with that line.)

I would think the experts can tell the difference between gasoline and the latest bombs used by Islamic Jihadist murderers.

Strikes me as an odd way to commit suicide. Arson maybe. I have to admit to being out of my element; maybe I should become an MSM journalist.
464 posted on 04/02/2006 5:56:13 PM PDT by ChessExpert (MSM: Only good for to taking side(s))
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To: Tasha Dasha Doo

It's a good thing they have a gun registry or they'd really have problems. /s


465 posted on 04/02/2006 5:56:28 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
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To: CindyDawg
No bomb. He armed a gas can.

Doh! Silly me for forgetting about the timers on gasoline cans.

466 posted on 04/02/2006 5:58:13 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Drew68

Heh... so it would seem. :-)


467 posted on 04/02/2006 5:58:57 PM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

468 posted on 04/02/2006 5:59:06 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Tasha Dasha Doo
Maybe it was a Buddhist monk going to immolate himself to protest something, but he was overtaen be a sudden bout of diarrhea and something went terribly wrong.
469 posted on 04/02/2006 6:00:25 PM PDT by isrul
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To: ChessExpert
"He's not a strap-on al-Qaida bomber guy,"

Our suspicions about the virility of al-Qaida types has been confirmed. They use a strap-on.

470 posted on 04/02/2006 6:04:01 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: Dog; LayoutGuru2; All

Another UPDATE...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/02/canada.blast.reut/index.html

"Man dies in coffee shop 'wall of flames'"

Sunday, April 2, 2006; Posted: 8:55 p.m. EDT (00:55 GMT)


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) -- A man was killed in a "wall of flames" in a downtown Toronto coffee shop on Sunday, after a device exploded inside a washroom, according to police and eyewitnesses.

Eyewitness Jenny Phillips said she heard bangs -- like pops from a firecracker -- and a scream "that will haunt me forever" as she left the washroom area in the Tim Hortons shop, an iconic Canadian coffee and doughnut chain recently spun off from parent company Wendy's International Inc.

She smelled burned powder, and saw there was a "wall of flames" inside the men's washroom before staff herded some two dozen customers outside. "I thought the roof was caving in. People were screaming," she told Reuters.

Toronto police chief Bill Blair told reporters that a device in the washroom had caused a flash fire, and the unidentified male victim had suffered severe burns.

"It appears that there has been a very hot and intense fire in the enclosed area within the washroom," Blair said. "We are still very preliminary in our investigation to determine the cause of this fire, and we are still determining whether or not this was a purposeful act or an accident.""


471 posted on 04/02/2006 6:06:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: AnAmericanMother

Is this likely?


472 posted on 04/02/2006 6:07:57 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: backhoe; cardinal4; fanfan

That lone, depressed, suicide bomber from OU turned into an 'accident' as the Norman PD said he didn't mean to 'blow' himself up. Reading between the lines -- he meant to blow up the rest of us!

FBI has a new terrorism office they are establishing in Norman. Guess they will be here to check on more 'accidents?'

Please tell me this isn't another lone, suicide bomber who didn't mean to blow anyone up. Had enough of that crap to last a lifetime.


473 posted on 04/02/2006 6:10:37 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Elect Bob Sullivan OK Governor -- Throw out Dem Gov DoLittle Henry in 2006!)
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To: CindyDawg

Blessed are the peacemakers...:)


474 posted on 04/02/2006 6:13:13 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: rockabyebaby
I've been there quite a few times. No other shopping district in North America is quite like downtown Toronto around Bloor/Yonge St. The stores go on for miles and there are underground stores as well.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

475 posted on 04/02/2006 6:15:44 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ChessExpert
I think I remember that one of the "caches" that our boys found in Iraq included gas cans.

A lot of things don't make sense. <1.>Closed gas cans don't explode except under "serious" heat. <2.>A cell phone will set off fumes as we have seen demonstrated on TV ads telling us to keep our cell phones off when at the gas station. The smallness of the bathroom could bring the "fume" percentage up to explosive capability. I'm going to assume (yikes) that he was being clever making it look like an accident.

If he's got a gas can, then there should be a car around right? Why go in a john in a Tim Horton's instead of the gas station? (and most men will of necessity go just about anywhere.

How close is the nearest gas station?

They have not mentioned a car, gas station or cell phone, nor a description of the dude.

Remember that there was a suspicious package the week before at this place and the police were called in. That's VERY typical of these bombers to see "what happens" and where the security is prior to an event.

Another thing to remember is that "once a scenario begins, there is suppose to be no communication between terrorists.

476 posted on 04/02/2006 6:16:03 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Cindy
They sure talk a lot about the “wall of flame.” It’s clearly a quote, but who is being quoted?

I found this interesting:

"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," Staff Sergeant Don Cole said of the device inside the restaurant.

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


What the heck is a device supposed to be? The Acme “Wall-o-flame” device to remove mildew from bathroom walls?
477 posted on 04/02/2006 6:18:20 PM PDT by ChessExpert (MSM: Only good for to taking side(s))
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To: mewzilla

BUMP


478 posted on 04/02/2006 6:19:53 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: wideminded

Good post.


479 posted on 04/02/2006 6:20:47 PM PDT by Huck (All things in moderation, including moderation.)
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To: ChessExpert

Laughing...

Well now, (NOTE: THIS IS NOT A FACT) I suppose it could be a speedy toilet bowl cleaner to remove all germs before using the throne. Could that be a possibility, too?


480 posted on 04/02/2006 6:20:55 PM PDT by Cindy
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