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| Pipe Bomb Near Cincinnati Mosque |
| 2005-12-21 |
| Police don't know if it's a hate crime or a prank. POLICE AND THE FBI ARE INVESTIGATING A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS IN CLIFTON TUESDAY, ONE OF WHICH DAMAGED A BUILDING NEXT TO A MOSQUE. AROUND 10:10pm, POLICE SAY THERE WAS A REPORT OF EXPLOSIONS NEAR LUDLOW AND CLIFTON AVENUE. THEN, 12 MINUTES LATER, NEIGHBORS OF THE SALAM MOSQUE AT CLIFTON AND MCALPIN. OFFICERS SAW DAMAGE, AND CORDONED OFF THE AREA. Shouting in original; despite it being the lead story on EVERY news broadcast I heard this morning, no other local outlets had anything. The reporters are doing their usual excellent job of making the story less clear the more they report on it, too. |
| Posted by:Robert Crawford |
| #7 Trailing W..Living in Maineville, I often pass that mosk...the one with the American flag on the pole out front. Figured they were hiding. |
| Posted by: mjslack 2005-12-21 22:35 |
| #6 Probably a muzzie system test or training accident. Did a bunch of the little fu*** run back into the Mosque after the booms? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-21 15:36 |
| #5 Links to the Cincinnati Enquirer link 1 Imtiaz Ahmad, 48, who worships at the mosque, said it has had no problems since the 9/11 attacks. The mosque sits among many churches. Hebrew Union College also is nearby. link 2 Jewish and Catholic leadership deplore the attack, which is being treated as a hate crime. Nobody was hurt, no real damage to the buildings. Security has been added at a larger mosque in an adjacent county, but there were no reports of threats at that mosque. That would be the really big mosque with a golden dome, built with Saudi money in the outer suburb of West Chester, Butler County, about 25 minutes from downtown. (Cincinnati is Hamilton County) That's my part of the world. About two years ago the head of the W.Chester mosque was an Egyptian, who owned a little Moroccan restaurant. The food didn't meet Mr. Wife's standards, but then he'd eaten the real thing when he was doing a factory start-up over there. ;-) The Moroccan restaurant has been replaced by a Lebanese one, I think, and I have no idea if the Egyptian gentlemen is still involved in either the mosque or the restaurant. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-12-21 15:23 |
| #4 Police and federal agents now say they're investigating twin explosions that hit a Cincinnati mosque complex late Tuesday night. An FBI spokesman says there were blasts at each of two adjoining buildings owned by the Islamic Association of Cincinnati. But special agent Michael Brooks said he can't comment about the size or type of explosive. Brooks won't say whether investigators have identified the source of the blasts. Brooks says both buildings were used as mosques. He said authorities won't speculate on why the buildings were targeted. A neighbor told the Associated Press he heard a "big boom" that seemed like thunder at first. But Chad Withers said he saw white smoke and an orange flash when he went outside. One of the explosions damaged a door on a house that used to serve as the mosque. The other damaged an overhead panel in the front entryway of the new mosque, but it wasn't powerful enough to break the glass front door. "It's extremely scary especially when you see these things happen around the country ... We haven't had anything like this in Cincinnati so it's very upsetting to have this happen here," said Karen Dabdoub, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Cincinnati. Police said there were no reports of injuries, and they haven't found any witnesses. The explosions hit late Tuesday night, about two hours after evening prayers had ended. Security has been added at a larger mosque in an adjacent county, but there were no reports of threats at that mosque. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-12-21 15:09 |
| #3 At least one report said there was more than one, but like I said, the reporters are slurring their facts. It's also been a while since I could hear the news. By now they may have wrapped up the investigation. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-21 09:30 |
| #2 Police don't know if it's a hate crime or a prank. or a workplace accident. Call OSHA. |
| Posted by: Snaving Grerong3569 2005-12-21 09:25 |
| #1 That's the MSM for ye, Robert. The more information they give, the more confused everyone is. It's not a bug, it's a feature! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-12-21 08:55 |