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"Police officers at the scene said it's not known if the 33-year-old victim was targeted."

Whether or not she was targeted, her car definitely was.

Had someone lit a slow match and tossed the device under the car, I would be willing to assume vandalism and a non-specific target.

But rigging a wire to activate a detonator when the car moves is definitely targeting the car and its driver.

The law presumes that a perpetrator intends the ordinary and forseeable consequences of his act. It is ordinary and forseeable that the next person to move that car would be its owner or a member of her family.

4 posted on 03/18/2007 5:13:15 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

I wonder if some criminal has it in for that family for some reason. I also wonder if perhaps they were random victims of Islamist "students" who are practicing their bomb-making art.


5 posted on 03/18/2007 6:11:54 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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When an *innocent* victim is targeted that is terrorism. Or this could be a test by someone to check on their design to see what the effectiveness is. Perhaps this car was *tested* because of its location or availability. Or perhaps it was meant as a warning for someone else who lives in the vicinity. Or ..... and the list goes on and on.


10 posted on 03/18/2007 9:08:44 AM PDT by B4Ranch (You're in America now. Here we speak English.)
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