Chief: Minneapolis apartment fire injures 13, 6 of them critically (Religion of Peace alert?)

Star Tribune ^ | January 1, 2014 | Randy Furst and Josephine Marcotty

[Zakeet]

Fourteen people were injured, six critically, early Wednesday morning after an explosion caused a major fire at a grocery store and apartment building in the bustling Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in south Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel said they do not know yet if all the residents are accounted for. Some made it out on their own into the subzero temperatures, but others had to be rescued with ladders.

Mohamed Cheikhabdi, head of the Somali Advocate Justice Center, said that family members have reported that three individuals living in the apartments are not in the hospital and have not been accounted for. They are worried that they may have died in the fire, he said.

Asked if anyone had been found inside, Fruetel said water was still being poured on the building and firefighters have not yet been able to enter. Fire investigators are on the scene, and city inspectors are assessing the structural integrity of the building, he said.

Police are interviewing victims at the hospital.

[Zakeet]

Here's how they celebrated New Years Day in Mogadishu, Somalia

... and here's a few things to consider:

• The explosion was in a building with 10 apartments reportedly occupied principally by single Somali men on the second floor, and a community grocery store on the first floor. Next door was the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque and cultural center.

• The utility company appears to have ruled out a gas leak. The building was just inspected in 2012 and had no reported problems.

• A witness in the building describing the explosion talks of an initial electrical “shock” feeling in the building, then a subsequent explosion that blew the windows out on the second floor. Investigators have yet to get fully into the building to determine the cause.

• The firemen noted how this explosion/fire was unlike anything they had ever seen, that it included a man who apparently went out the window who had no legs, which if he wasn’t already in that condition, suggests that his legs were blown off.

• The Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque next door appears to promote shariah law, and links on its website to the Muslim Brotherhood website, as well as to INSA and CAIR. It caters to a Somali immigrant Muslim community.

• There is no link established between the explosion and the mosque at this time.

• The Somali community in Minnesota has lost several young men to jihad in Somalia.

• Today, there was a bombing, killing 10, at the popular Jazeera Hotel in Mogadishu (see photo and article above). Al-Shabaab took credit, saying they had warned Somalis against New Years celebrations or consorting with “infidels”.

Amazing coincidences?

[cableguymn]

That area is what I call little somolia. It has two of the largest (and ugliest) public housing buildings in it. Minnesota imported this problem.

[tbpiper]

One of the dangers of home schooling jihadis, I guess.

[NEMDF]

Possibly some of the residents were in the bomb-building mode, and had a little mishap? It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and as to what is actually reported through the MSM.

[basil]

The firemen noted how this explosion/fire was unlike anything they had ever seen, that it included a man who apparently went out the window who had no legs, which if he wasn’t already in that condition, suggests that his legs were blown off.

Strange sentence.........

[cableguymn]

If his legs are not out there with the rest. Then yes they where blown off inside.

This story with a different head line is also posted here.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3107424/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

[Jack Hydrazine]

Same story, different thread...

EXPLOSION AT MINNESOTA GROCER AND MOSQUE – 13 injured (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107424/posts

Post #52 is very informative.

[TurboZamboni]

May want to check Somalia for th ‘unaccounted for’.

[livius]

I would suspect the Minneapolis incident was probably caused by somebody improperly using a kerosene heater, no doubt with another large container of kerosene “stored” nearby, or possibly by somebody cleaning something with gasoline, commonly used in the Third World for laundry and cleaning purposes.

We had a big explosion not far away from me which everybody first thought was a meth lab blowing up, but it turned out that the young man who lived there and was blown up in the explosion was actually just cleaning auto parts with gasoline and the fumes ignited. He was probably stoned at the time, which didn’t help, of course, but it was simply one of those things that happens when you get gasoline fumes into a small space and something sets them off.

So my first choice would simply be Third World cleaning or heating procedures...but on the other hand, you could be right and it could be that they were dumb enough think they could make a bomb and ship it to Somalia or use it here in the US to take out some rival Somali group.

[Autonomous User]

Well, it is the new year and this probably was a traditional Mooselum weight loss Resolutuon ..... suicide bombing.

[cableguymn]

Down town minneapolis is walking distance from this area. The mall of america is a quick light rail ride... if they where planing some sort of attack this would be a good area to launch it from. Lots of friendlies around to keep an eye out for cops while building your bomb.

[Dead Corpse]

They are worried that they may have died in the fire failed bomb making attempt, he said.

Fixed it.

[MNnice]

The fire was so hot that it’s STILL too hot to enter the building. And this was supposedly just apartments with a small grocery on the bottom floor. Everyone still isn’t accounted for which means a few people could have been blown up when the assembly process was botched.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Wassamatta? You don’t like really tall buildings with multi-colored windows?

;-)

[Joan Kerrey]

They are worried that they may have died in the fire, he said.

Probably at work

[cableguymn]

those are not windows ;)

[cableguymn]

The ones still missing are the ones that where closest to the bomb.

You have found your guilty parties.

[BerryDingle]

The firemen noted how this explosion/fire was unlike anything they had ever seen, that it included a man who apparently went out the window who had no legs, which if he wasn’t already in that condition, suggests that his legs were blown off.

Meanwhile, a big yawn from the media.

[rcrngroup]

Muzzzies! Never a dull moment!

[tom paine 2]

Testing suicide vests?