Six Pipe Bombs Found in Nebraska Mailboxes; Some Leads in Bombs That Hurt 6 in Iowa, Illinois

AP ^ | May 5, 2002 | Kevin O'hanlon

[virgil]

I don't think it was written by rural types either. It sounds like know-it-all, psuedo-intellectual left wing nut stuff. You typically find those in the cities. If it were right wing, CNN would be spraying it all over the place.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Yes, definately not USA Redneck! Are references to people who do not fear death people who will get thier 72 white raisins? Or people who's religion believe in reincarnation? Why is there an assumption that we "fear" death so much? I don't think so. Most people view death as a part of life,(I hope). Is fear of death high on your things to fear list? The message is building death as the greatest fear we have. Government control? Compared to most world government's ours has relatively little control of the everyday life of the citizen. We are about as free as it gets! What do we want to do that we are being kept from doing? Beats me!

[apochromat]

I think everyone should leave it to the pros, who should give every appearance of being incompetent. Ha! Ha!

[wingnuts'nbolts]

We are clearly meant to think so.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If the note was written by a right wing redneck, I would think that they would be griping about high taxes and government actions in debacles like Waco, and maybe something about our government being too socialist. It would be that kind of stuff. General statements about oppression and fearing death just don't fit.

[sakic]

I'd lay 10 to one if you or anyone else is interested.

[Aliska]

LOOK AT THIS!:

" gluttony is just another slow form of suicide and self destructive people only care about themselves so if every fat person got dismissed from this reality, the human race would be better off"

found here:

Marilyn Manson

I've gone over the letter a few times and he used that term dismissed twice referring to people. It was too late to deal with it last night but I did a search on Google this morning and came up with the above link. I thought song lyrics might play in this guy's head. Rock fans would know where they got this expression.

[jz638]

My armchair FBI agent profiling skills are guessing that the bomber is probably a white male college sophomore.

The target probably isn't any more significant than it being roughly the middle of North America, I'd bet there is a map of the USA with a dart hole in Eastern Iowa in this guy's posession.

The writing style strikes me a incredibly typical of the mindless freshman and sophomore screeds written to and ocassionally end up in the editorial section of college newspapers. The "I've lived here for many years" strikes me more as his proclaimation that he isn't a kid more than an admission of being a foreigner. The various civilizations remark also strikes me as a juvenile attempt at appearing knowledgable.

But hey, I could be wrong.

[Aliska]

ping (see my #27 on this thread). Maybe we can add heavy metal to the guy's profile?

[Squantos]

Freepmail enroute

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

Well, some IDIOTS did it. I don't know if it is any stupider than being a homocide bomber.

[pttttt]

Cui bono?

Who benefits?

It took trouble, knowhow, resources, planning, covered a lot of ground in a short time. Sounds like more than a bunch of kids or the Unibomber.

[Dog]

Look at this...

Cindy noticed something in the letter..and Lion's Cub picked it up..

Good pickup on the The United States strives to provide freedom for their people, Cindy. I agree that this person is not a US citizen, or least doesn't consider himself one.

[Dog]

Howlin look at 27 it offers another clue to this new bomber.

[usconservative]

Do you remember this headline from three weeks ago?

New Al Jazeera Tape Aired-9/11 Hijacker Says 'It is Time to Kill Americans in The Heartland'

Now that you mention it, yes I do. I live 42 miles S.W. of Chicago, and it's fairly "rural" out here. Not as rural as the western part of the state & eastern Iowa, but rural enough.

If it weren't for the birds that decided to next in my mailbox, I'd be taking the door off of it for the mailman to feel safer.

As it is, he's in for a shock when he sees that birds nest tomorrow. I don't know how those stupid birds built a nest and laid eggs in one day, but dang if they didn't do it!

[usconservative]

BTW, this little nugget should be of interest:

A map of the bombs found Friday forms a jagged circle straddling the Mississippi River and covering part of eastern Iowa and the northwest corner of Illinois.

Saturday's pipe bombs were found about 350 miles west of there, not far from Interstate 80, which runs through both regions.

So either it's the same person/group of people doing this using I-80 as a corridor between destinations, or an active terrorist cell here in the heartland.

350 miles is a long way to go down I-80 to plant a few pipe bombs, so I'm leaning (but am not convinced) it's a terrorist cell, or local terrorism.

[alpowolf]

True, there are a few "Americanisms" sprinkled through the document but the overall effect is like someone for whom English is a second language, trying to disguise that fact.

[alpowolf]

From what I have seen of the writing skills of college freshmen, this is too well written to have come from one of them ;)

[Mitchell]

True, there are a few "Americanisms" sprinkled through the document but the overall effect is like someone for whom English is a second language, trying to disguise that fact.

I respectfully disagree. The syntax is that of a native speaker of English. (It could conceivably be someone from another English-speaking country, or even someone who has been here for a very long time, probably since childhood, and speaks like a native. But it's probably written by an American)

[japaneseghost]

Unabomber. I'm pretty sure you got it right. Are you a cop?