Whoa.
Who would the suspects be? Eco-terrorists? Immigration radicals? Drug traffickers?
Saw it on the ticker on CNN about 7:00am as breaking news - no follow up, though.
Bill Ayers? Bernadine?? Is that you? Or friends of yours?? Maybe someone who got psyched up for the deed by watching vids of fellow Obama supporters chanting “YES WE CAN”......
Explosion rattles San Diego federal courthouse
No comments at the site as yet/.
It would be interesting to see a follow-up report on this that would identify a reason such as threat for prosecution of some criminal member of a Cartel or other, or perhaps as Ayers has been in the news considerably of late, it could be a copycat event. Regardless, this needs to be addressed quickly and effectively.
I am not holding my breath.
Anyone know the where abouts of William Ayers when this went down?
I am sure the media will immediately declare that no terrorism was involved.........
It’s those damned bitter, gun loving, religion wrapped Americans again...
Blast occurred at 1:40 and by 1:41 they’d ruled out terrorism, at least if they follow the usual script.
Is there a big trial coming up? If so, what? I don’t know that the San Diego court has a lot of terrorism trials. Possibly it has eco-terrorism trials, since a lot of those are West Coast things. But, usual denials aside, that’s where I’d look. In fact, I think the eco-terrorists are even more likely than the others to do something like this.
Those terrorists are getting sloppy. Someone should inform them that goobermint workers (whom I presume were the intended targets) don’t tend to work in the wee hours of Sunday mornings.
By Angelica Martinez
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
11:16 a.m. May 4, 2008
SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune
FBI agents cordone off the blast area while checking for evidence around the courthouse.
SAN DIEGO – A pipe bomb or series of pipe bombs exploded at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse downtown early Sunday morning, sending shrapnel into a courtyard and to the eighth floor of a building across the street.
Two guards with the Federal Protective Service, who were inside the building, called authorities when they heard the explosion at 1:40 a.m. on Front Street near Broadway. The guards were not injured.
Firefighters, police, FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents arrived minutes later to find the front entrance and the lobby of the building damaged.
The cause is believed to have been a bomb or bombs that detonated at once and caused a single explosion, said Keith Slotter, FBI special agent in charge of San Diego.
Before the investigation began, San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team investigators and ATF bomb investigators searched the area to make sure there were no other explosives.
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Early Sunday morning, about 40 agents combed the courtyard in front of the courthouse, Front Street and a courtyard on the other side, using evidence markers and spray paint to locate debris from the blast.
“The damage from the shrapnel didn’t stay concentrated just in front of the door,” Slotter said.
One piece of shrapnel lodged in a window about eight stories up the AT&T building that faces the courthouse.
Authorities believe the device or devices were left outside the building’s front door shortly before being detonated.
Slotter said there are cameras outside the building that may provide information. There are no cameras that directly face the doorway, he said.
Authorities were still deciding whether or not the courthouse will be open to the public Monday. They expected to make a decision late Sunday.
Investigators said Front Street, between Broadway and F Street, would be closed until at least noon Sunday while they collect evidence. That evidence will be sent to an FBI laboratory in Virginia, where bomb experts will analyze it, Slotter said. At the time of the explosion, there were not many people walking by the building, which is at least a block from nightclubs in the Gaslamp Quarter. Slotter said there were vehicles passing by when the explosion occurred, but no reports of injuries.
Anyone who saw any activity near the building at that hour is asked to call FBI at (858) 565-1255.
Angelica Martinez: (619) 293-1317; angelica.martinez@uniontrib.com
It’s due to right wing talk radio shows! Rush Limbaugh’s creating chaos! /s
There are always major ongoing high profile trials going on at the Federal Courthouse in San Diego.
There have been everything from Middle East terror cases over the yrs. to in recent months the Felix Drug cartel.
If it was terrorism, it would have been a weekday?
Thinking out loud, any comments?
A pipe bomb blast shattered the glass in the front door of a Federal Express distribution facility in the Webster area Friday and a second pipe bomb was discovered in the parking lot and was safely defused, police said.The blast occurred in the 1600 block of 47th Street and Federal Boulevard at 1:47 a.m., according to San Diego police Sgt. Kerry Tom.
WOWIE! Wha’ hoppen?