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2006-04-02 Great White North

1 killed in Canada coffee house explosion

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Posted by lotp 2006-04-02 18:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Haven't heard of many boomers in YYZ before. Afganistan blow back or key AQ grab quickly come to mind.

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-02 18:45|| 2006-04-02 18:45|| Front Page Top

#2 "...district manager Amin Islam..."
Hmmmm.

Posted by Darrell 2006-04-02 18:53|| 2006-04-02 18:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Darrell,

Hmmm what? They're still cleaning bits of person out of the bathroom, and already people are alluding to the Muslim manager being involved in a bombing of his own place of work, while he was there.

Posted by Colt 2006-04-02 19:04|| 2006-04-02 19:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Colt - no off-the-cuff thoughts? Wait for the forensic release of facts in a prelim hearing? Jeebus - this isn't CSI

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-02 19:50|| 2006-04-02 19:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Definitely not .45

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-02 20:15|| 2006-04-02 20:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee, Colt, if anything, you should be upset that this made Rantburg Page 1, WOT Operations. I was sort of wondering why until I hit the Amin Islam part.

Posted by Darrell 2006-04-02 20:37|| 2006-04-02 20:37|| Front Page Top

#7 This is weird. Arrests in Newmarket, of all places, and a Tim's explodes soon after.

Posted by Gliting Closing8568 2006-04-02 21:21|| 2006-04-02 21:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn. Tim's went IPO a week ago. Should've shorted it.

Posted by Agent Bauer 2006-04-02 21:26|| 2006-04-02 21:26|| Front Page Top

#9 LGF sez is was some amateur with a gas can... probable motive was arson or suicide.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-04-02 21:44|| 2006-04-02 21:44|| Front Page Top

#10 If this was Al Queda, it could be a turning point in the GWoT. Blowing up Timmies is not going to go down well up there.

Posted by JAB 2006-04-02 22:25|| 2006-04-02 22:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Curiouser and curiouser. More from lotp's second link:

A Tim Hortons spokesman confirmed the dead man was not an employee, but his identity was not immediately known.

Later Sunday, a second of the coffee franchise's outlets in Toronto was locked down after a suspicious package was identified there. Few details were immediately available, but police confirmed an emergency task force unit had been dispatched to the second location - just a few subway stations north of the first - and the area had been evacuated.

A second loud bang was heard in the area several hours after the first, but police would not immediately confirm whether it was the intentional detonation of remaining explosives on the scene, or an unrelated blast.

Officers in white hazardous-materials suits were also seen entering and leaving the store, it was not clear whether a potentially dangerous substance had been identified.

From another article (Reuters)

Police closed off a busy block close to one of Toronto's main shopping districts as they investigated the cause of the explosion and used a remote controlled device to trigger a second device after finding a suspicious package.

"It was just garbage," Cole said.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-02 22:49|| 2006-04-02 22:49|| Front Page Top

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