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2006-04-06 Home Front: WoT

Man Suspected of Planting Bombs Arrested

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- Authorities captured a former air traffic controller suspected of planting homemade bombs at an aviation company's office in Tennessee and the Colorado homes of four of its employees and a Federal Aviation Administration worker. No one was injured by any of the explosions.

Robert Burke, 54, had been wanted on a federal arrest warrant in the March 24 explosions at three houses in Grand Junction. Law enforcement officers were able to disarmed the bombs found at the two other homes. Burke was arrested late Wednesday in Provo, Utah, and was scheduled in federal court later Thursday in Salt Lake City. Grand Junction Police spokeswoman Linda Bowman said a tip led police and federal officers to Burke.

Burke was an early suspect in the bomb attacks. He had been fired by Serco, a United Kingdom-based company that operates the air traffic control tower at Walker Field Airport in Grand Junction.

A foreign company running air traffic control? Does Congress know about this?

The first bomb, in February, exploded at a Serco office in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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