BREAKING: Offices of Plame prosecutor target of bomb plot!

[wndycty]

On edit: I decided to give it a more sensational, yet true headline. You know the press could do this without violating any kind of ethics.

Don't expect this to get much coverage because the man is not from the Middle East but this is scary as hell.

Man arrested in plot to bomb federal courthouse

By Nathaniel Hernandez
Associated Press Writer
Published August 5, 2004, 12:56 PM CDT

Federal agents arrested a Chicago man Thursday on charges of plotting to use a fertilizer truck bomb to blow up the downtown federal courthouse, but prosecutors said he never actually had dangerous materials to make a bomb.

Prosecutors said Gale William Nettles, 66, was arrested with a pickup truck containing 1,500 pounds of fertilizer that he allegedly thought was volatile ammonium nitrate, the farm chemicals used to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building.

Nettles was working alone, U.S. District Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said. The other people involved -- including those who delivered the non-dangerous fertilizer to Nettles on Wednesday -- were cooperating witnesses and federal agents, he said.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-040805arrest,0,3028377.story?coll=chi-newsbreaking-hed

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Shades of Oklahoma City :^(

Wonder what his beef was?

[wndycty]

2. No idea. . .

. . .I am waiting for a picture.

[chiburb]

3. Another sting operation maybe?

Like Albany? Maybe not since this guy doesn't sound A-Rab.

[madrchsod]

5. if fitz is in on it

i`d say it was a solid case.

[Terran]

12. Please don't use that term here ("A-Rab").

It's reflects bigotry and is offensive to Arabs. And DU does have at least a few members who are Arab or Arab-American.

[wndycty]

16. I agree, however I think it was meant to mock those who would use it.

:kick:

[chiburb]

20. You're right. NO slur intended...

Sorry if anyone who doesn't know me was offended. It was mockery as Wndy said.

Now if anyone that KNOWS me was offended, was it something I said or was it just me?

;(

[ProfessorGAC]

21. It's Definitely You

I know you, and i'm offended completely. So there. Happy now? (Kidding of course.)
The Professor

[chiburb]

22. I thought so...

Nice to see you're finished with your Harmonic Convergence Canutinor Valve Flute/Sax Flux Capacitor thread or whatever it was.

Yes, I'm happy now. Thanks!
:-)

[Terran]

23. My mistake, sorry.

I hope I didn't sound too patronizing or anything. There are folks at DU who would be that clueless, ya know? :spank:

[madrchsod]

4. yes i wonder if he is

A WHITE MAN. all it takes is good police work and people who are willing to risk their safety to stop this shit..

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

6. This was one of Mies Van Der Rohes last works...

...the Federal Complex in downtown Chicago is an elegant little ensemble of two skyscrapers and low-rise post office set around a plaza w. a red Calder sculpture.






"Mies’s uncompromising devotion to principle, together with his vaunted sensitivity to proportion and structural detail, and, in this case, the organizational scale, combine to give the complex a monumental urban presence.

Both towers are curtain-wall structures characteristic of the high-rise design of Mies’s American period. Their steel frames, suppressed behind uniform walls of glass and steel, are marked off by projecting steel I-beam mullions. The Post Office, a unitary space with a central core, is similarly typical of Mies’s reductivist concept of the single-story pavilion. Externally thin yet powerful structural columns of steel brace enormous panes of tinted glass. "

[merh]

7. Odd, isn't that where the PLAME grand jury is meeting

and investigating the outing of Amb Wilson's wife????

Can you say intimidation?

[wndycty]

8. Very good observation

I changed the title of this thread to reflect that.

:kick:

[bear425]

9. That was my first thought!

Scary.

[Tellurian]

10. And...who hired this ?rouge? Independant Contractor?

Dear me, who could it be?

who said, CheneyBushRove?

[AlCzervik]

11. The plumbers

Rove has brought them back.

[displacedtexan]

14. I think you're correct!

John O'Neill was one of Segretti's Ratfuckers.

They're all back!

[AlCzervik]

15. yup, even Rove

he was in charge of the college republicans back in the day, it's all come full circle.

[cthrumatrix]

13. you can say....where there is smoke...there's asscroft up to no good

[Dover]

29. Notice suddenly there is a proliferation of 'potential' violence from

several different quarters. There are the terrorist threats and the round up of alleged shady characters, then there is the envelope with powder addressed to Kerry, then there are the stories of people coming over the border, and ....now this.

All in about a weeks time! Must be a record. What's next?

[msmcghee]

17. There is nothing in the article that links . .

. . the alleged bomber with the Plame Grand Jury.

Your headline is misleading at best.

[wndycty]

18. Oh really. . .

. . .do you know who has offices in the building that was targeted? Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting the case. Besides I am just showing how news can be manipulated to meet an agenda. There is nothing that I am doing that is not done on a daily basis by the mainstream press.

[merh]

19. Your headline is not misleading....

not in any way.

[wndycty]

24. Thanks. . .

. . .its not a lie.

[merh]

25. Can't help but think it is just an odd "coincidence" that the

Chicago Federal Courthouse was a target. :shrug: too many coincidences over the last 4 years with this admin.

[jukes]

26. biggest idiot

since bush. every mistake possible.

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. These people are EVIL.

I don't use that word lightly. They ARE evil. BFEE is at it again. When are we ever going to get these people behind bars??? How many people have to die to further the RW agenda? HOW will we stop it? Can we? :scared:

[lostnfound]

28. kick nt