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FBI: 'Improvised explosive device' caused blast at Bloomington Islamic center
Star Tribune ^ | August 06, 2017 | Stephen Montemayor

Posted on 08/07/2017 9:56:24 AM PDT by ptsal

[]Full tite: FBI: 'Improvised explosive device' caused blast at Bloomington Islamic center **SNIP**

A blast caused by what the FBI called “an improvised explosive device” rocked a Bloomington Islamic center before dawn Saturday...

The blast was reported at 5:05 a.m.

Even before the FBI update, congregants said the blast appeared to be a hate crime. Mohamed Omar, the center’s executive director, who was in the building when the explosion erupted...

The building was once the site of Northgate Elementary School and Concordia High School. It also served as a worship space for Maranatha Community Church. The Dar Al Farooq Center bought it in 2011 to use as a place of worship, community center and day care site.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: blast; bloomington; ied; insideout; minneapolis; mosqueexplosion; prematuredetonation
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Notice the blast blew from the inside to the outside. Why?

This is a day care site. Are there Federal or state funds expended on the operation of this site?

1 posted on 08/07/2017 9:56:24 AM PDT by ptsal
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I’m betting one of their own.......Any takers?............


2 posted on 08/07/2017 9:58:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: ptsal

Interesting. When the media reports this sort of stuff in the middle east, they just call it an IED.


3 posted on 08/07/2017 10:00:03 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: ptsal

Statistically, this is almost certainly a hoax. On the other hand, maybe they accidentally set off one of their own stockpile.


4 posted on 08/07/2017 10:00:37 AM PDT by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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To: robroys woman

IED is the term used in the article.

Amazing that word can be used in Minnesota.


5 posted on 08/07/2017 10:01:14 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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in an attempt to find as many components as you can

They were making the bomb and it went badly?

6 posted on 08/07/2017 10:01:31 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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So it was a suicide vest prematurely detonating?


7 posted on 08/07/2017 10:02:16 AM PDT by glasseye
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To: calenel

Do the fire inspectors make unannounced visits, open every door, and look in every closet?

This is a day care facility.

This is a facility that regularly has many people inside.

Are the inspections up to date?


8 posted on 08/07/2017 10:03:08 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Red Badger

If it wasn’t a false flag attack, then it surely was intended to be set off inside the Shir Tikvah Synagogue down the street.


9 posted on 08/07/2017 10:03:12 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Red Badger

“I’m betting one of their own.......Any takers?............”

Work place accident?


10 posted on 08/07/2017 10:03:21 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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Raw Stats would indicate its more likely to be insurance fraud than a hate crime.

No Minnesota media would ever touch the possibility of a device in construction being the source. Never.


11 posted on 08/07/2017 10:04:14 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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Never heard of Bloomington


12 posted on 08/07/2017 10:04:47 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
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To: FatherofFive

Careless assembly procedures..,...


13 posted on 08/07/2017 10:05:25 AM PDT by matthew fuller (God bless America, D.J. Trump, John Wayne, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and John Moses Browning.)
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This is Bloomington, Minnesota, not Bloomington, Illinois.

Leni

14 posted on 08/07/2017 10:05:58 AM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!......USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!)
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This too is terrorism and deserves attacking. It makes no difference if it was perpetrated by a fellow Moslem or not.


15 posted on 08/07/2017 10:07:37 AM PDT by pharmacopeia (All will be well and all will be well and every kind of thing shall be well. (Julian of Norwich))
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To: Red Badger

Here ya go! Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG_lZSRzuIY

Aloha Snackbar!


16 posted on 08/07/2017 10:08:46 AM PDT by vette6387
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“This is Bloomington, Minnesota, not Bloomington, Illinois.”
I think the locals will start calling it Boomington from now on!!


17 posted on 08/07/2017 10:09:26 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: ptsal

It was either a forgotten pressure cooker or a poorly assembled ‘clock’.


18 posted on 08/07/2017 10:10:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

When a known wolf Islamonazi strikes we are told that it is too soon the speculate on motive. The governor and CAIR have already called it terrorism although no one has taken credit yet.

I recall at least one such case of arson that was deliberately set by an Islamist. They never apologize to the kufir community for their rash assumptions.


19 posted on 08/07/2017 10:10:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: vette6387

They don’t call it a ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ for nothing!......................


20 posted on 08/07/2017 10:11:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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