Car Bomb Explodes Near Va. Power Building

[DoYouEverWonder]

AP Wire


March 19, 2004, 12:30 AM EST

FIELDALE, Va. -- A bomb exploded Thursday inside a car parked near a former American Electric Power Co. building, authorities said.

The Henry County fire marshal found that one bomb had been detonated in a car and a second one that appeared to be live was on the vehicle's roof, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

The bomb exploded shortly before 5 p.m. No injuries were reported.

Two men were seen fleeing the scene in a green truck, the sheriff's office said. A spokesman for the sheriff's office said authorities had no suspects in the case and knew of no motive for the bombing.



Seems this time we were lucky. No one got hurt and the bombers missed their target. What the hell is going on? I sincerely hope this is just an isolated incident by a couple of wackos and not the beginning of something much more ominous.

[Quetzal]

1. Yikes

scary.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

2. On the anniversary of "shock and awe"

the coalition nations need to be on high alert. What color are we right now? Should be red. If not, why not?

[Almost_there]

3. Not enough info to go on...

The article almost makes it seem like it was a really crappy bomb attempt. I mean, if they can find a bomb still attached to the roof of the car, how big could the bomb that went off have been? Guys "running from the car into a green van"? This has the hallmarks of a really crappy bomb attempt, and going after an American Power "building"? Doesn't say "Power generating station" or electric grid. My initial feeling is they are small time idiots. Call it a hunch, but, if they were competent or Al Queda related, I think we'd be hearing about a chunk of Virginia in the dark.

Not willing to give them more credit than they are due, and I'm not getting my duct tape and plastic out just yet.

[DarkPhenyx]

6. Plus, dosen't say it's a "former" American Power building?

That dosen't sound very smart for a target. I dunno. Sounds like someone wanting to stri things up. I'm stopping just short of calling it an attempt to drum up support for President Bush, or possibly to make him look like a failure and bring Kerry into office, but it does bear keeping such ideas in mind.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

11. I agree

Not saying that was the work of terrorists, but it is a reminder of the need to be vigilant right about now.

[hippiechick]

18. Uh, Tim McVeigh could be considered a 'small time idiot' ...

Same with Ted Kaczynski (although I doubt the case against him) ....

:hippie:

[Almost_there]

22. Good point...

I just think this article is pretty weak, and while you can draw similarities to Kozinski et al, this has dropped off the radar altogether.

They made an effort, screwed it up, and no one seemed to take notice.

[leftchick]

4. I can give you a good reason why not...

Red Alert = Martial Law!! :scared:

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

12. Yeah, guess they're saving "red" for the real thing

[Katarina]

5. You want us at a Red Alert?

No thank you. If we need a color code, yellow suits me just fine.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020312-5.html
Severe Condition (Red). A Severe Condition reflects a severe risk of terrorist attacks. Under most circumstances, the Protective Measures for a Severe Condition are not intended to be sustained for substantial periods of time. In addition to the Protective Measures in the previous Threat Conditions, Federal departments and agencies also should consider the following general measures in addition to the agency-specific Protective Measures that they will develop and implement:
Increasing or redirecting personnel to address critical emergency needs;
Assigning emergency response personnel and pre-positioning and mobilizing specially trained teams or resources;
Monitoring, redirecting, or constraining transportation systems; and
Closing public and government facilities.

I don't know about your county, but in mine, a red alert would mean my childrens schools are in total lockdown with no parents on campus. I don't want a red alert.

[DarkPhenyx]

7. I was thinking Avacado.

Avacado is a nice color to be in. So is aquamarine, or forest green. My new (used) truck is forest green you know.

[TexasProgresive]

8. avocado is fitting

like the guacamole that spewed from the mouth of that ultimate spin master who possessed the Linda Blair character in the Exorcist. Maybe that's what we need an exorcism for the whole country to free us from this lie spewing, head spinning bunch in the "peoples house." Come to think of it Rums field and company probably used a Ouija board to get their best "intelligence.

:evilfrown::puke: :puke: :puke: :nuke:

[hang a left]

13. I always thought that looked like pea soup.

n/t

[DarkPhenyx]

15. I think it was pea soup.

Does anyone know for sure?

[hippiechick]

16. Yes, it was pea soup n/t

:hippie:

[TexasProgresive]

17. guacamole is fitting

We're talking about drug store cowboy Bush here. Pea soup spewed outta Daddy Bush's mouth cause he never was anything but a Connecticut Yankee. Boy wonder is another sort of Connecticut Yankee who wants all the world to think he is a wild west fighter. If he wants to live that myth he ought to remember that most died to younger quicker draws.

BTW I am a native Texan married to a real Connecticut Yankee. None of my New England in-laws can stand Bush. I think they would like if if he never left Texas again.

[kimchi]

24. Welcome to DU, cooper82!

:hi:

[AspenRose]

26. Tom Ridge as the Trix rabbit

Ah, TRIX, in raspberry red, lemon yellow, orange orange....

Wooo!

Yeah, he's got TRICKS up his sleeve, all right.

[JusticeForAll]

30. Silly Rose

Trix are for kids! The adults are in charge!

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Actually we're back at yellow

and you would think under the circumstances, with the anniversary of the invasion that Ridge would have thought it prudent to go back to orange. However, so far going to orange seems to have little to do with any real threat but rather for political advantage.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

14. right

If you're going to have a color code, why not use it during likely times of an attack?

[Cooley Hurd]

20. Jeez, not red...

I hope we never get to code red - that would mean martial law would be declared and our civil liberties suspended.

Pray it never comes to that (ESPECIALLY around election day). :scared:

[Aidoneus]

10. I doubt that the resistance is gunning for Fieldale, VA & Henry County

:shrug:

[Nihil]

19. "... fleeing the scene in a green truck"

As in low emissions or maybe solar-powered?

Goddam eco-terrists can't even make a proper bomb ...

[electricmonk]

21. Just a couple wackos

Probably trying for an insurance scam or a really bad prank. From a local tv news script:

It happened just before five o'clock in this parking lot on Appalachian Drive near the Old Pillowtex Plant.
Authorities arrived to find a bomb had detonated inside of a maroon Volks Wagon.
(///// SOT /////)


((KIMMY NESTER/HENRY CO. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: IT MAY BE SIMILAR TO A PIPE BOMB BUT I'M SAYING THAT IT COULD HAVE SOMETHING SUCH AS A PAPER CYLINDER RATHER THAN A PIPE UTILIZED TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF EXPLOSIVE POWDER TO ACTIVATE.))



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Investigators then discovered a second device that appeared to be live sitting on the roof of the vehicle.
The State Police bomb squad was then called in.

[demdave]

27. Paper cylinder? So this guy had 2 giant firecrackers and blew one up.

With that we get the responses in this thread? lolololol

[rman]

23. 2 bombs in US in one day?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=432409&mesg_id=432409

[abracadabra]

25. useless dummy target

Secret testing--
getting ready for November elections are they?

[rocktivity]

28. But it WASN'T an electric power building!

It was a FORMER one. But that could be a clue: if the perps were dumb enough to leave a bomb on the car's roof, why expect them to be smart enough to know where the electric power building really was?

:headbang:
rocknation

[MadHound]

29. Sounds like the interclan feuding my father's family engages in

Seriously. My father's family is from a small little Mid Mo town. They've been there for well over a hundred years, marrying back and forth(my father's family tree looks pretty stumpish) forever. Small town, nothing to do, they get to feuding back and forth, and before you know it, someone is shot or blown up.

About six years ago the latest chapter of this ongoing soap opera played out. In broad daylight, across from the courthouse, a woman(distant cousin, hell, everyone in that town is a distant cousin of mine) gets into her car, turns the ignition and BOOM, she's blown to hell.

Now the sad thing is that most everybody who lives there has a pretty good idea of what was going on, and who did the deed. But nobody is doing the talking, because they know they'll go the way of the last family member who talked about such matters, shot from a distance through the head, with a thirty aught six (my family tends to be good shots, myself included). So nobody talks and matters quiet down for a while, five, ten, twenty years. And then once again things boil over and somebody "mysteriously" dies.

Two things I'm grateful for everyday. First, I don't live in that small Mid Mo town, and never have. Second, my mother is from an entirely different gene pool

[electricmonk]

31. Update

Just some teenagers being dumbasses.

3 teenagers arrested

Three people were charged Friday in connection with an explosive device that damaged a car in Fieldale on Thursday.

Two 17-year-old boys and an 18-year-old man are charged with the manufacture, use and transportation of an explosive device, a felony, Lt. D.J. Runge with the Henry County Sheriff's Office said.
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A device "about size of a can of Vienna sausages" went off inside the car, which had been sitting for some time in an isolated spot near a Fieldale garage,

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. Well since they like playing with explosives so much

maybe they should join the military?

[demdave]

33. As I posted earlier...kids with fireworks.

Paper cylinder? So this guy had 2 giant firecrackers and blew one up.


With that we get the responses in this thread? lolololol