Pipe bomb left outside Austin abortion clinic.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4753900.html

AUSTIN — A travel bag discovered in the parking lot of an abortion clinic contained a potentially lethal pipe bomb, police officials confirmed Thursday.

"It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death," Assistant Police Chief David Carter said at a news conference.

The device was found in the parking lot Wednesday afternoon by an employee at the Austin Women's Health Center, a clinic along Interstate 35 south of downtown.

Austin police, working in concert with federal authorities, defused the explosive after shutting down all four southbound lanes of Interstate 35 and evacuating the buildings around the parking lot.

The thwarted attack is the first attempted bombing of an abortion clinic in the U.S. this year, said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, a Washington D.C.-based group representing abortion providers.

Forty-one clinic bombings have been reported in the past 30 years


And from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18343166/

"We know that when abortion is in the news, we also see clinics targeted for increased violence and disruption," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. The group put out a memo to abortion providers around the country, urging them to be alert."

[Ian David]

1. See prior thread: Explosive package discovered at women's clinic in Austin, Texas

See prior thread: Explosive package discovered at women's clinic in Austin, Texas
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=116&topic_id=15093&mesg_id=15093

[KansDem]

2. Are we having to fight them over here now?

Dammit! I thought the Iraq War was suppose to prevent this!!!

What went wrong? Please, Il Duce, take some more of my constitutional rights so that I will feel safe and secure!!! :cry:

[BlooInBloo]

3. republicans should be claiming a great success in preventing terrorism!

Oh - wait - this is state-sponsored terrorism - gw supports this terrorism.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

4. sounds like the work of "Al Qrista"

I just came up with that...

[mainegreen]

5. Do you think if found, the person will be sent to Guitmo as a terrorist?

Will their Habeas Corpus be suspended?
Will we torture them to find out who else they're working with?
Will we bomb their houses with smart bombs in the interest of fighting terrorism?

(I hope not, but felt the need to say this.)

[robbyrob79]

6. When I made a *barf* foray into Freepland yesterday

There was a thread about this, a lot of people were saying "They probably planted it there themselves to help further oppression of good christian americans"

Yeah......they really said that

[Pachamama]

7. Looks like domestic terrorism is alive and well....

...but, but, but, I thought that under the Republicans, we were all safer???? :eyes:

Why do I have this scary feeling we are going to be seeing a lot more attacks domestically on abortion providers? Guess the right-wing fundie terrorists are feeling "emboldened" from the recent rulings....

[NewJeffCT]

8. It's terrorism - it doesn't matter

if it's foreign or domestic. It terrorizes.

[robbyrob79]

10. Shouldn't it be...

Embiggened? It just seems like a word that the president would use. Try googling it and see what you come up with.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. Terroristic Zealots

No matter how much we "fight 'em over there" they still exist over here.