Car Bomb Injures Two on Wis. Highway (US Military Responds)

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2943955,00.html


NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (AP) - An explosive device
detonated beneath the driver of a car traveling on
a highway Wednesday, injuring him and his
girlfriend, authorities said.

Military personnel called to the scene in central
Wisconsin found a second device in the car that
did not explode, said Capt. Mark Cattanach of the
Clark County Sheriff's Department. It was not
immediately known where that device was
located.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. ok they were injured due to an

explosion under the car, but
this is not terror related...

Okay...

Sure, whatever big brother...

[DUreader]

4. Under the driver, reminiscent of Judi Barry

[Robin Hood]

15. That is what I immediately thought of.

[smallprint]

2. another version of the ap story

says it was a homemade pipe bomb

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-car-bomb,0,6126276.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

bizarre

[bunnyhop]

3. This is just the beginning

Genocide George has inflamed all the arabs in america and a lot of non-arabs with his terrorist tactics. Unless bush is removed soon we're gonna have bombs going off in cars and malls and sports stadiums everyday.

[AliceWonderland]

6. We don't know who did it

Call it terror, don't call it terror, but just don't define terror as "what an Arab does", please. This could have been anybody -- Americans (heck, human beings in general) are a violent lot and kill each other in countless horrible ways every day. Every "arab in america and a lot of non-arabs", as you put it, isn't a latent terrorist waiting to be set off.

[jamesinca]

19. That is right, terroist are not always from the Middle East

Timothy McVie
John Lee Malvo
Ted K. (the uni-bomber guy)

Those three come to mind immediately. It may have been some stupid high school thing. We don't know, look at the facts before jumping to conclusions.

[Mika]

18. Um.. the converse is true also

Genocide George, with his terra, has inflamed the ignorant wingnuts in America (who can't tell the difference between Indians, Africans, or Arabs).


"Unless bush is removed soon we're gonna have bombs going off in cars and malls and sports stadiums everyday."

No one will be able to determine who's bombing whom, and which bombings are acts of (some sort of perceived) revenge.

[hang a left]

5. can't help in but my

conspiracy minded self says hmmmmmmm Wisconsin, DLC Ad, bomb?

[Kenneth ken]

7. for the terror-obsessed

man, girlfriend.

Can you say angered ex-boyfriend? How about angered ex-girlfriend?

Naw had to be arab terrorists.

Myself, I'll wait to see who the people were, and whether they might be likely terrorist targets before I jump on your bandwagon.

breathe - it will send oxygen to your brain, and make thinking a little easier.

[htuttle]

8. I'd bet it's a hit related to personal matters

I've lived in Wisconsin all my life, and I've never heard of Neillsville. I'd say terrorism is unlikely. There's not much there, there.

The one possibility that it's more than it seems on the surface, is that there is a military base somewhat in the neighborhood, Fort McCoy, several hundred miles away. That's probably where the military that are mentioned as investigating came from.

It's probably either jealousy related, or perhaps a meth deal gone bad. I have no reason to suspect these possibilities other than the process of elimination, however. For example, I'd guess meth, as opposed to other contraband, cause the pot crop isn't in yet this year, there isn't a huge coke trade in Central/West Wisconsin, and people don't often try to blow each other up around there over small disagreements.

Wisconsinites might try to eat you, but they are unlikely to try to blow you up over small matters.

:evilgrin:

[KC21304]

9. No terrorists in Neillsville.

About 30 miles from my home. I'd bet it is romance gone bad.

If you ever get to Central Wisconsin, there is a wonderful Viet Nam memorial outside of Neillsville. Called The High Ground.

[KC21304]

10. Okay, I got the Ed Gein and Jeffery Dahmer reference.

I guess you can get away with that being from Wisconsin.

That and Joe McCarthy are probably what most people think about when the hear Wisconsin.

Of course I am just kidding. THE PACKERS !!

[htuttle]

11. Hey, those legends keep the population of our state low

If people knew what it was like, they'd all move here.

WELCOME TO WISCONSIN
ENJOY YOURSELF
NOW GO BACK HOME

:)

[R Hickey]

13. Neillsville has the worlds biggest cheeze on display...

Its on display by the highway, Highway 10. The giant cheeze is in some sort of world's-fair-pavilion-type-shrine and is quite...distinctive. Actually the shrine contains a copy of the big cheeze, the real cheeze having rotted, or been eaten by rodents, or something.

In the heart of old historic Neillsville there's an old stone jailhouse that you can tour during the summer. There is also a hard-rock radio station, or used to be, and a disturbed-youth center, called Sunrise House, which my guess would be is where the mad-bomber resides.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. That's SunBURST, not Sunrise.

I think it might have closed a couple of years ago.

Neillsville is the county seat of Clark County, & used to be a hotbed of Militia activity. Mostly dairy farm country around there.

[revcarol]

12. Why not ATF?

Is everything "militarized?"

[KC21304]

14. My guess is because Fort McCoy is so close

they wanted to give the army a little practice. Fort McCoy is less than 60 miles I would guess.

[DUreader]

20. Why Not? To get people used to the end of Posse Comitatus

my guess

[smallprint]

17. i just googled "wisconsin bomb"

and got this story, just published today:

FBI investigates threat of bombs in farm fields
http://www.themonroetimes.com/o0723thr.htm

snip

State and FBI investigators are probing letters to state officials and media that claim "a small, dedicated group" has secretly planted land mines in corn fields statewide and around Fort McCoy.

The state Department of Criminal Investigation is still assessing the threat's legitimacy, but it's probably not credible, said Shawn Johnson, supervisory agent with the FBI in Madison.

end

possibly a connection?