Two men with TNT nabbed at huge U.S.-Canada bridge [Detroit]

NY Daily News ^ | 4/21/3

[texson66]

Bet both names had Mohammed in them!

[NativeNewYorker]

I had the same reaction.

[white trash redneck]

How PC - no mention of the ethnic appearance of the suspects.

If they are terrorists or terrorist wanna-be's (and their pattern of surveillance makes it unlikely that they are a couple of farmers with dynamite to clear stumps from their property), I'd like to see them use the dynamite as a suppository.

[NativeNewYorker]

"The men, who are Arab-American, are being questioned by the FBI."

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1241535&nav=0RceFLXS

[Portnoy]

They were also from Dearborn. I posted an article on this from the Detroit Free Press earlier this morning...

[Preachers Kid]

B I N G O !
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I'm shocked and awed that they have that ethnic background. Wanna place bets on their religion?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If these were white guys with Anglo names, you would see their biographies faster than you could say Jack Robinson. But middle eastern decent is kept secret for 24-36 hours (you'll find it in a postage stamp-sized article on page A16 of your local newspaper, no TV coverage).

[NativeNewYorker]

I searched for the item before posting. Sorry for the dupe.

[battlegearboat]

Shakers?

[grumple]

LOL....that's the first thing that struck me...these guys are obviously not white, conservative right-wing, homosexual hating, racist, bigots or else we would have been told so...

seems alot have noticed it too..

[MIhomeschooler]

Also in the local rag:

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/terror21_20030421.htm

[antidisestablishment]

Two quarter sticks is hardly a huge terrorist threat and as for the "collapsible baton," who cares. A tire iron is just as deadly.

[Paleo Conservative]

Bet both names had Mohammed in them!

That's why their names were not released.

[Doctor Stochastic]

TNT isn't dynamite. The headline is very misleading.

[dljordan]

Well, they must be pretty good with explosives to bring down that bridge with half a stick of dynamite.

[freeper12]

THis is nothing...an M-80 is something you setup for the 4th of july or to blow up a mailbox at most...not a bridge....very misleading headline.

[katana]

There was another post about this which mentioned both are of Arab extraction. Can't quarter sticks of dynamite be used as detonators for a fuel-oil / nitrate bomb?

[NativeNewYorker]

Two quarter sticks is hardly a huge terrorist threat...

I disagree.

While obviously that puny charge couldn't bring down the bridge, its detonation on a well-traveled span would have massive effects on psychology, traffic patterns, security preparations, etc.

[1Old Pro]

Good thing they saved the bridge. Otherwise Canada would have a national healthcare catastrophe if their people were prevented from entering the U.S. for life saving medicines, treatments and surgeries.