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Pipe bomb explodes at Hinsdale Metra station
Daily Herald ^ | 09/01/06 | Harry Hitzeman

Posted on 09/01/2006 9:43:36 AM PDT by Freedumb

A crude pipe bomb exploded this morning in a garbage can inside the Hinsdale Metra station lobby, but no one was injured and authorities said the incident was not a terrorist act.

Thomas Ahern, special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearms, said authorities had a “person of interest” in custody and were questioning him.

“It’s too early to know any motive,” he said, noting authorities were still interviewing the suspect, as well as train passengers. “It is what we could characterize as an improvised explosive device.”

Ahern said ATF officials worked with Hinsdale police, the FBI and the DuPage County Bomb Squad to comb other stations along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.

No other devices were found.

“It really had very little if any impact on the morning commute,” Ahern said.

Metra spokesman Tom Miller said late this morning the Hinsdale station was open and trains were stopping there.

At 6:53 a.m., a Metra employee called police to report “someone just threw a firecracker” into a garbage can at the Hinsdale depot, police said.

Shortly after the call, the fire alarm activated, but there was no extensive damage, police said.

Hinsdale police said witnesses saw the suspect board the 6:56 a.m. or 7:04 a.m. train to Chicago.

“At this time, we do not have any reason to believe this was a terrorist act,” police said in a statement


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombing; explosion; terrorism
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To: Freedumb

Detonating a bomb in a train station is a terrorist act -- no matter who did it.

Was it connected to al qaeda? Probably not, but it is still terrorism.


21 posted on 09/01/2006 10:02:28 AM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
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To: Freedumb

Kinda sounds like a bored teenager on summer break with an M-80 in his pocket and a trash can handy... I know the media described it as a crude pipe bomb, but they call semi-automatics "machine guns" too, sometimes.


22 posted on 09/01/2006 10:02:33 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: mc5cents; Red Badger

It's the pipe bomb planted inside the German Chocolate Cherry Cake that does it. That or Lutefisk packed with C2. I agree about the evil Southern Baptists, though. I think they felt we Lutherans were so involved in terrorism, they might as well join our agenda. Just kidding, folks!


23 posted on 09/01/2006 10:02:40 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" – Anonymous)
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To: wideawake
It's about 15 minutes from the national headquarters of the Nation of Islam in Chicago.

Are you NUTS? In what, a helicopter?

24 posted on 09/01/2006 10:03:07 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Freedumb

Probably the wannabees from Naperville.


25 posted on 09/01/2006 10:06:45 AM PDT by toddlintown (IT)
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To: Heyworth
authorities said the incident was not a terrorist act.
26 posted on 09/01/2006 10:07:55 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: wideawake

Really? Since when? It's a bit of a jaunt to Stoney Island.


27 posted on 09/01/2006 10:08:36 AM PDT by toddlintown (IT)
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To: Freedumb

Must be one of those darn atheists!


28 posted on 09/01/2006 10:09:06 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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To: Freedumb

"Stay away from the cans!!"


29 posted on 09/01/2006 10:09:19 AM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: toddlintown

I'm still chuckling. Any guesses as to how far a carload of NOI-types would make it into Hinsdale before being pulled over?


30 posted on 09/01/2006 10:13:43 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: bcsco

Lutefisk doesn't need C-2. It'll sponateously explode with little or no help at all................


31 posted on 09/01/2006 10:14:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: bcsco
That or Lutefisk packed with C2

It's not generally known but lutefisk will detonate if struck sharply. The story about its being edible is just to make it easy to move across state lines.

32 posted on 09/01/2006 10:15:31 AM PDT by Grut
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To: Freedumb

Maybe someone was practicing for an attack on the Oak Street Bridge.


33 posted on 09/01/2006 10:17:52 AM PDT by syriacus (Why wasn't each home in New Orleans required to have an inflatable life boat?)
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To: Red Badger; Grut

Ahah! Thanks for the info. Being German Lutheran I was unaware of its volatility. I hold to my statement about the cake, though.


34 posted on 09/01/2006 10:18:11 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" – Anonymous)
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To: bcsco

Yall are some bad brothers:')


35 posted on 09/01/2006 10:19:55 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: syriacus
“It really had very little if any impact on the morning commute,” Ahern said.

Transcontinental freight trains could have been impacted. I used to live right near those tracks. Big equipment, covered by tarps, used to go by, late at night.

36 posted on 09/01/2006 10:20:43 AM PDT by syriacus (Why wasn't each home in New Orleans required to have an inflatable life boat?)
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To: syriacus

I don't find it very likely that transcontinental commerce would be affected by some guy tossing a bomb into a wastebasket, and then boarding a Metra train.


37 posted on 09/01/2006 10:23:10 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: bcsco

I love German Chocolate cake, hold the cherries!......


38 posted on 09/01/2006 10:24:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: bcsco; Red Badger; Grut; Charles Henrickson; IowaHawk; All
Peace Elusive in Strife-Torn Midwest

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39 posted on 09/01/2006 10:26:55 AM PDT by dighton
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To: mc5cents

I'm sorry, but Baptists are not allowed in Hinsdale. There was a family of color at one point, but they moved when the teenaged son refused to play ball for the HTHS Red Devils...


40 posted on 09/01/2006 10:29:11 AM PDT by jonascord ("Let 'em burn!...")
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