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Posted on 12/13/2008 3:24:44 PM PST by james500
An Oregon State Police bomb technician became the second victim of a bomb in a Woodburn bank branch, State Police spokesman Lt. Gregg Hastings confirmed Saturday. Two state troopers were killed when a bomb exploded inside West Coast Bank in Woodburn, Oregon.
Technician Bill Hakim, a senior trooper, and Woodburn Police Capt. Tom Tennant were killed in Friday evening's blast, Hastings said. Both men were 51 years old.
Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell, 46, was critically injured. A female bank employee also was injured. She was treated at a hospital and released, the State Police said in a written statement. Her name was not immediately available.
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Their investigation led to a suspicious device outside West Coast Bank, and all but two employees were evacuated from the bank, Hastings said. It was not immediately clear why those two employees were not evacuated.
The device was brought inside, and it exploded, Hastings said. He said it was not clear why it had been brought inside.
Bank President Bob Sznewajs said Friday that his employees told him authorities "scanned it outside, then brought it in." Video Watch a witness describe the explosion »
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Hastings urged anyone with more information about the bomb to come forward.
"This individual or individuals took the life of two police officers and critically injured the chief of police and potentially could have killed one or both of the bank employees that were still inside," Hastings said.
"That person is very dangerous, and that person needs to be found as soon as possible," he said. "And if it takes a $35,000 reward, or if that reward even grows, to convince someone to come forward, to give us that information that's going to break the case, then that's money well spent."
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I am sorry they were killed, but this does not sound very professional for a state police department.
The correct procedure would be more like bring in an armored truck, have a robot load the bomb into the truck, and drive to the range for controlled detonation - wouldn’t it?
Prayers for those for fell.
Hope they get the person responsible sooner rather than later.
I agree that it’s not best practice to pick up and move a suspicious device, unprotected by armor. We don’t know much at this point, I guess we’ll know pretty well what happened over this coming week.
However, what we do know is that some evil bastard planted a bomb that could have killed children riding bikes but he/she/they (usually a loner male) decided their perceived grievance with society justified the carnage.
Maybe MSNBC and the Today show can have the bombers on and asking them fawning questions like they did to Ayers.
This is the state police department! Haven’t they received millions of dollars in Federal grants for SWAT teams and anti-terrorist measures?
Apparently, they can send a dozen guys with machine guns to catch a teenager selling dope, but when an serious incident happens they send one guy in a car.
They gave their lives. I don’t think they deserve ridicule. They probably get calls all the time about “packages” that turn out to be just stuff. Policies have probably already been reviewed and changed as we type.
Did not take Ayers’ boys and girls long to go to work. This is only the first of many to come.
I’m wondering if they saw a timer with bottles of chemicals or something and they were trying to contain, from going airborne. JMO but something had to have spooked them big time, to require action before backup got there.
I do not ridicule them - they were brave men who took action.
However, I blame the policies of those who sent them, and the equipment they were given to work with.
Why didn’t they wait? You think maybe they might have been taking it to the S/D vault?
Yup. In fact, I'd put him right at the top of the list of suspects. Bring him in and start the questioning.
I don't care what he says...it's a lie.
Now that's what I call real concentration.
look to ALF or ELF
look to ALF or ELF
Please. This is also Woodburn, Ore. Ever heard of it before? I’m sure up to now, 100% of such incidents have turned out to be somebody’s lunch bag left behind or at worst a cherry bomb planted by some kids.
Not a good move.
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Horrible — sounds like friends of Bill Ayers are active in Oregon....... even if they don’t know him personally they sure like his methods.
The Weather Underground was responsible for bombing several government targets throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and a building used by the New York City Police Department. To finance their domestic terrorism activities the group also conducted “traditional” robberies, which occasionally led to murder.
What you don’t usually hear in modern-day news coverage of the group, is that three of those murders were of police officers killed in the line of duty.
On February 16, 1970, a bomb exploded at a San Francisco, California, Police Department substation, fatally wounding Sergeant Brian McDonnell. McDonnell died of his wounds two days later. A second officer, Robert Fogarty was partially blinded by the bomb’s shrapnel. Although the case has never officially been solved, members of the Weather Underground, including Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were prime suspects.
On October 20, 1981, several members of the Weather Underground undertook the robbery of a bank to finance their terrorist activities. During the robbery the group murdered an armored car guard and two members of the Nyack, New York, Police Department - Officer Waverly Brown and Sergeant Edward O’Grady,. a Vietnam War veteran. Unlike with Sergeant McDonnell’s murder, this case was quickly solved and several members of the group were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Sergeant McDonnell, Officer Brown, and Sergeant O’Grady were just three of over a dozen law enforcement officers killed by radical, domestic terrorist groups during the 1970s and 1980s. Their memories may be forgotten by those who killed them and walk free - whether through lack of arrest and prosecution in McDonnell’s case or having served their sentences in Brown’s and O’Grady’s cases - but they will never be forgotten by their brothers and sisters in law enforcement.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/10/the-weathermen.html
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