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Suspect in bombing masks ID-- Danish police see newspaper as target of attack
The Washington Times ^ | 9/19/10 | Shaun Waterman

Posted on 09/20/2010 10:49:15 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter

A bombing suspect who is accused of blowing up a hotel toilet in Copenhagen, along with himself, is a one-legged amateur boxer who was born in insurgency-racked Chechnya and has shown what one scholar calls "highly professional" tradecraft in concealing his identity and purpose from Danish authorities.

The would-be bomber's target, Danish police said, was likely the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world in 2006 by publishing 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and has been the object of at least one foiled terrorist attack since.

"We are reasonably sure that was the target," Chief Superintendent Svend Foldager of the Copenhagen police, the lead investigator in the case, said at a briefing Friday.

"We're dealing with a letter bomb," said Mr. Foldager, adding that the parcel contained small steel pellets designed to maximize casualties and would have exploded with a force of a small hand grenade. "It was capable of injuring a lot of people, depending on where it exploded."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: censorship; chechnya; danishterrorism; denmark; islam; islamonazism; jyllandsposten; militantislam; rop; warof12cartoons

1 posted on 09/20/2010 10:49:21 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
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To: Inappropriate Laughter
You know, their Allah is certainly a defensive, fragile kind of guy.

Can't take a joke, needs everybody to defend him.

Not exactly what you would look for in a omnipotent being...

2 posted on 09/20/2010 10:54:42 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

one legged boxer? his record probably was not too good.


3 posted on 09/20/2010 10:56:04 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

one-legged AMISH boxer?


4 posted on 09/20/2010 11:41:14 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: paul51

“one legged boxer? his record probably was not too good.”

Apparently he brought a pair of boxing gloves to a machete fight. ;)


5 posted on 09/20/2010 4:05:12 PM PDT by Levante
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