(Immigration rights) Protesters targeted with bomb [View all]

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Last edited Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:15 AM - Edit history (1)

http://occupyintel.net/2012/02/15/protesters-targeted-with-bomb/

Local OWS activists were part of this protest.

File this under "Holy S***!"

Hundreds of protesters from various groups converged on the state capitol in Topeka, Kansas today. Shortly before the protesters arrived, Capitol Police discovered a truck laden with explosives parked outside the capitol.

KAKE News reports:

“Police say they’ve arrested the owner of a suspicious pickup truck that was found parked near the Kansas Statehouse with several homemade explosives inside and that had specialty license plates issued only to U.S. military paratroopers.

"Capitol Police Spokesman Patrick Saleh says officers arrested the pickup’s owner Wednesday in an underground tunnel that connects the Statehouse to a nearby state office building.

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"Saleh said the Topeka Police Department’s bomb squad was called to investigate the pickup after an officer saw suspicious objects inside. He says they found explosives made with household materials and designed to spray shrapnel upon detonation.”