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Mich. man charged for alleged Xcel bomb plan (RNC)
KSTP.com ^ | 9/3/08 | Nicole Muehlhausen

Posted on 09/03/2008 11:54:58 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A 23-year-old Michigan man faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally possessing bombs, which he allegedly intended to use to destroy the Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention.

Matthew Bradley DePalma, of Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession of firearms.

According to his criminal complaint, DePalma had several Molotov cocktails in his possession a week before the start of the RNC.

DePalma had been under investigation by federal investigators after he attended a protester conference in Wisconsin in July.

Officials said DePalma went to the Hennepin County Library on Aug. 18 to research how to make ‘special’ Molotov cocktails that would stick to people and other targets.

Investigators recorded a conversation that DePalma had with another individual, where he described his plans to disrupt the RNC by causing a power outage and lighting police officers on fire.

DePalma allegedly manufactured two jugs of homepage napalm and had been overheard saying his plans then involved bombing the Xcel Energy Center on the final day of the convention.

DePalma was spotted in a remote location in Roseville a few days later, where he was experimenting with chemicals and testing his homemade bombs.

Also known as petrol or gasoline bombs, Molotov cocktails are generally easy to make due to the availability of the materials.

DePalma was arrested without incident on Aug. 30 at a residence in south Minneapolis.

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To: 1curiousmind

This is terrorism. He should be treated as any other in US prisons who have conspired to commit terrorist acts against the US. Turn his sorry ass over to the Navy and hold him in the brig until his ride to Cuba comes..


21 posted on 09/03/2008 12:32:17 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Drill Now, Vote Nobama, and Oust the Third Word Democrat Congress)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; grellis

MI ping!


22 posted on 09/03/2008 12:34:57 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Matthew Bradley DePalma, of Flint, Mich

Isn't that Fat Boy's hometown?

23 posted on 09/03/2008 1:22:27 PM PDT by Crawdad (I am my brother's keeper. I am not your brother's keeper.)
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To: Crawdad

sort of..... Michael Moore-on grew up in a cozy suburb of Flint but re-made himself into an “autoworker from Flint” to feed his socialist campaigns and films...... but he is no more “from Flint” than I am “from South Philly” since I grew up in a suburb of Philly.


24 posted on 09/03/2008 1:24:56 PM PDT by Enchante (Governor Sarah Palin Runs a State -- Obama and Biden Run Their Mouths!!)
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If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

25 posted on 09/03/2008 5:40:01 PM PDT by grellis (McCain/PALIN 08)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He’ll claim it was alternative fuel for his lawnmower and get a $5 million grant to study global warming.


26 posted on 09/04/2008 5:46:53 AM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Matthew Bradley DePalma"

Is his father a taxi dispatcher in the Bronx named Louie?


27 posted on 09/04/2008 6:22:16 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: grellis

I’m not going to look into this too deeply how MS products and bombs may marry.

O.K?


28 posted on 09/07/2008 12:47:16 AM PDT by raygun
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