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Explosion in Austrian Discotheque Wounds 20, Four Seriously
New York Times ^
| 7/27/02
| AP
Posted on 07/26/2002 11:47:51 PM PDT by kattracks
LINZ, Austria (AP) -- An explosion rocked a discotheque in the western Austrian city of Linz early Saturday, and police said they found remnants of a hand grenade at the scene. Twenty people were wounded, four seriously. The explosion occurred at about 3:20 a.m. (9:20 p.m. EDT) at the X-Large Disco in Linz, about 120 miles west of Vienna, the Austria Press Agency reported. Bits of a grenade were found not far from the disc jockey's booth, the reports said. The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment of shrapnel wounds, Austrian radio said. |
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austria; austrian; discotheque; explosion
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:47:51 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Does anyone else notice that overseas discoteques are not the safest places to be? I'm just curious how many people have been killed in disco fires and explosions in the last 15 years?
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:49:29 PM PDT
by
goodieD
To: kattracks
Authorities said the disco is adjoined by a small restaurant frequented by young Serbian and Croatian immigrants. The disco is in a western part of the city known locally as "Little Munich."
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:51:00 PM PDT
by
seeker41
To: kattracks
Let me be the first to say "this is just an isolated incident".
To: seeker41
Austria celebrates diversity.
Look for a Haider/Waldheim ticket in the fall elections.
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:54:23 PM PDT
by
opticoax
To: monkeyshine
Let me be the first to say "this is just an isolated incident".Yes, I'm sure nothing to do with Islamic Extremism. Just move along, move along...
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:55:39 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: seeker41
Hmmmmm...
Any chance Bosnian Muslims were behind this grenade attack. I know a lot of Bosnians made their way into Austria and Germany during the 90's.
To: kattracks
Wouldn't wish a big terrorist attack on anyone, but I'm hoping that if one happens it takes place in Paris.
There's nothing that would change the EU's mind faster than a deadly terrorist attack on their own soil.
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posted on
07/26/2002 11:59:43 PM PDT
by
what's up
To: ChicagoRepublican
More from same AP article
Hand grenades are easily obtained by gangs and other criminals in Western Europe. Authorities say many of the grenades originate in the Balkans, left over from the wars that followed the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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posted on
07/27/2002 12:15:32 AM PDT
by
seeker41
To: goodieD
Well, they tend to be packed with people. (If they're not, they tend to go out of business). I guess they're hard for terrorists to resist.
To: Jeremy_Reaban
Grenades are cheap and available in Europe since the end of the cold war, the Balkan wars etc.
A grenade in a disco can also be the local Mafia's warning to the other clubs to "pay for protection or else".
To: ChicagoRepublican
While anything is possible, I would be surprised if Moslems were behind this attack. Doing something in Austria only would serve as a distraction from their favorite pasttime - killing Jews, Americans, and Indians.
To: applemac_g4
When I traveled through Brussels last summer the airport was full of muslims, made me nervous. I was going to board an EL AL flight to Tel Aviv and security surrounded us at the gate with hands on side arms. It was for our protection but was quite bizarre as I had not thought of people in airports shooting up passengers.
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posted on
07/27/2002 1:04:51 AM PDT
by
seeker41
To: kattracks
Last year all of Europe fell over itself to side with the Palestinians and the Islamic Jihad against Israel.
This year the seed is fruiting. "What you sow, so shall ye reap".
To: kattracks
Wasn't Adolf Hitler born in Linz??
To: what's up
There's nothing that would change the EU's mind faster than a deadly terrorist attack on their own soil.Yeah, right. The Eurosnots will only hate US more because as every liberal anti-semitic Eurosnot knows, we Americans are responsible for every act of terrorism throughout the world due to our support of the only democracy in the Middle East.
To: kattracks
Anschluss
To: goodieD
Does anyone else notice that overseas discoteques are not the safest places to be? I thought disco died with Austin Powers, Baby. Maybe someone just took "Death before disco" too seriously.
To: Greg Weston
No, Hitler was born in Braunau, if I remember correctly. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Linz.
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posted on
07/27/2002 6:12:45 AM PDT
by
JMK
To: applemac_g4
"Doing something in Austria only would serve as a distraction from their favorite pasttime - killing Jews, Americans, and Indians."In Pakistan, they also like to stake a bear in the middle of an arena, loose some dogs, then everyone cheers as the bear is ripped to shreads by the dogs. Sick bastards!
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posted on
07/27/2002 7:26:53 AM PDT
by
blam
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