Posted on 05/07/2007 10:26:17 AM PDT by ex-Texan
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A device left in a casino parking garage exploded early Monday, killing a hotel employee who picked it up, authorities said.
The man was removing the device from atop a car when it exploded shortly after 4 a.m. on the second floor of a parking behind the Luxor hotel-casino, said Officer Bill Cassell, a police spokesman. He declined to describe the device, but said initial reports that it was a backpack were wrong.
Police said the blast was not a terrorist act but an apparent murder of a Luxor employee. No threat had been made against the Luxor, Cassell said.
``We believe the victim of this event was the intended target,'' Cassell said. He said another hotel employee narrowly escaped injury when the device exploded.
Gordon Absher, a spokesman for MGM Mirage Inc., which owns the Luxor, said he could not confirm that the victim was an employee.
Aerial video showed no apparent damage to the parking structure, where entrances were blocked while police, firefighters and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents investigated.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Dude must have bet on De La Hoya.
May he RIP.
We have no data on this situation but it is clearly not terrorism.
Glad I’m staying at Bellogio next month...
Well like they say in the Movie Casino mob don’t like no witnesses LOL!
If you want to kill someone and get away with it, a bomb is not the way to go.
BTTT
A terror attack? Yes, in my personal opinion. This news has not been reported yet on AP's primary U.S. site. Note that this report originated from an AP reporter.
What happens in LV, stays in LV.........
http://news.google.com/?ned=us&ncl=1116113798&hl=en
This was a backpack bomb. By definition, this was terrorism. The police can spin it any way they want. Want to bet the FBI is on the scene now? Call Jack Bauer.
Why not—traceable components?
Aerial video showed no apparent damage to the parking structure, where entrances were blocked while police, firefighters and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents investigated.
In the modern corporate casinos of Vegas, there are Big Brother eyes watching all (and running identity checks against those entering the casinos).
Even off the strip in the small neighborhood bars (with gambling) you will find a posted requirement to "remove your sunglasses".
There are witnesses off site all over Vegas.
Just added to the OU Bombing keyword list. Of course, it was just a disaffected yute, playing with explosives. /s
still no word on who the victim was?
Why assume this is a terror attack? Prior to 9/11 there were a small number of murders each year where explosives were used to kill a specific person.
If (as the article states) the victim was the intended target this is not terrorism.
My brother works at the Luxor and I just talked to him.
The devise, from what he has heard, was a coffee cup with some liquid and nuts and bolts in it. When the man picked it up it blew, took off his hand and several nuts were blown thru his head. He died at the hospital. My brother said they aren’t sure if it was an employee, but they feel he was the target.
Becky
The FBI is there. But what they are telling the employee’s at this time, is it is not terrorist, but that the guy who died was the target.
Becky
OUch!
http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/eir/bomb.htm
Bombings in the USA are not exactly rare. Not as common as stabbings, but around a thousand a year, this is one of them.
Hey there:)
How are you?
Becky
Better than THIS guy. Busy as a bee though ...
Curious that they could think the victim was the sole intended target if they don’t even know who he is. How does one ensure that the right person will pick up a coffee cup in a parking lot?
This is TERRIBLE!!!! I had no idea the government was covering up so many Muslim terrisrist bombings.
I was thinking the same thing. But if the cup was sitting on his car...he’d most likely be the one to move it. Wouldn’t you think? It was a gamble.
And my brother did say, that this is all just what is making the rounds among the employees...nothing “official” is confirmed.
Becky
I stayed at the Luxor last time I was in Vegas. Really nice place. God bless this poor victim.
ELF does some, plus people like Eric Rudolph try to blow up clinics, then there are organized crime hits, and so forth. Don’t assume these are all “terror bombings” in the context of the Global War on Terror.
We have domestic criminals that are capable of making a pipe bomb or two.
Sorry, I realized I should have added a sarcasm tag to that post. Aimed at the freepers who believe every explosion is a Muslim terrorist attack.
Which means it wasn't really 'targeted'. Anyone else who happened to be close by would have been hurt or killed too. Terrorism in my book, although unlikely to be of the Islamic kind.
Must have been one of those forced suicides.
Need more info for my humble opinion : )
Eric Rudolph was a terrorist certainly for his Olympic Park attack.
The OU Terrorist has since been awarded a memorial stone at the university. And authorities believe that he intended to kill more victims than just himself.
As has been noted on this thread, though, this deal sounds more like a plain ol' murder, maybe a family matter...
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