From FOXNews:
New York City police were questioning people and studying video surveillance tapes Thursday to determine who may be responsible for detonating two makeshift grenades outside the building that houses the British Consulate earlier in the morning.
The explosions, which occurred on Britain’s Election Day, caused the glass panels at the building’s entrance in midtown Manhattan to shatter but no one was injured, officials said […]
[…] The FBI and police investigators were questioning a United Nations employee from the Netherlands who was found loitering near the building shortly after the explosion, FOX News confirmed. The man, Eric Van Schijndel, is a low-level employee at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. Police said, however, that the man was not considered a suspect.
Reached for comment, George Voinovich (R-OH) expressed concern over the attack and wondered aloud if John Bolton’s “shabby treatment” of his subordinates didn’t play “some kind of role” in “motivating the blast.”
update: Or maybe he didn’t. But, y’know—he could have.
Trying hard to give the appearance of being a news site?
Its a potpourri!
IT’S A MEANINGFUL QUESTION THAT MUST BE ANSWERED!
Find this Voinovich, wherever he might be, and bring him before a congressional committee!
I demand pie scented potpour?
That was an “attack”? I think I could have improvised a bigger explosion from a couple of alka seltzer, a paper clip and Dean Anderson’s hair style from the ‘80’s.
I had that hairstyle in the ‘80s. Skip the Alka Seltzer and the paper clip. All you need is a match.
Potpourri sounds awfully gay, Jeff. Couldn’t you at least call it a hard-hitting, sweaty-smelling mishmash with balls?
Wonder if they’ll be looking at anyone with ties to, oh maybe, Sinn Fein?
Nah. Too obvious.
Let’s be honest with ourselves here.
The so called grenade attacks did not involve grenades. They were improvised explosive devices more akin to pipe bombs.
The british consulate wasn’t the british consulate, but a large office building that held an OFFICE for the cnsulate, among many other things.
The true victims in this story are the poor planters. Perhaps it was a scheme by ELF to liberate the flowers held captive within them.
So please, o british whiney types, quit thinking that it’s always about YOU.
I think we can rule out the IRA. That’s a group that has plenty of experience with explosives. I’d suggest looking at some wannabe group of college kids who flunked chemistry, but not too badly.
We had a stripmall here that had “Joe’s hunting”, radio shack, and sears hardware. We called it Jihad Corner.
And whoever planted those bombs is a fucking idiot for 2 reasons.
1. For doing it.
2. For being completely INEPT at making explosives.
It was obviously a couple of the last fugative Weathermen (or old hippy weathermen groupies) reliving the good old days of the 60’s.. a last hurrah if you will.. I mean, theyre getting kinda old now.. Edging on 60ish.. The leaders and icons are dead or sold out.. Abbie Hoffman, Wavy Gravy, Neal Cassady, the core Weathermen, the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez, Jane Fonda, John Kerry.. They gotta be pretty disgusted with how the whole thing ultimately turned out.. At least they didnt blow themselves up this time..