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What the BLEEP?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bulgaria-bombing-most-likely-suicide-attack#overlay-context=article/groups-seek-block-arizona-immigration-law
Okay, I'm thinking Timothy McVeigh and his buddy Terry Nichols and the Michigan Militia and Helter Skelter trying to rile up the Middle East even more than it already is to start their race war.
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Bulgaria bombing most likely carried out by suicide attacker (Original Post)
TouchOfGray
Jul 2012
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Confusious
(8,317 posts)1. Bulgaria is In Europe not the middle east
It's also probably somewhat Turkish, which are hardly middle eastern.
TouchOfGray
(82 posts)3. I'm well aware of the location of Bulgaria
But Israel is pointing the finger at Iran in this bus bombing, somebody is trying to stir the pot even more with a purported Michigan DL.
Just a little more kindling for the coming conflagration.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)4. Israel had been warning Bulgarian officials for some time
That Hezbollah/Iran wanted to launch a terrorist attack at Israeli tourists. That would probably be why they're now pointing the finger at Iran.
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. The bomber was supposedly carrying a fake MICHIGAN driver's license.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12824974-bulgaria-official-suspected-suicide-bomber-carried-fake-michigan-license?chromedomain=usnews&lite
Bulgaria official: Suspected suicide bomber carried fake Michigan license
By NBC News staff and wire reports
Updated at 3:52 a.m. ET: SOFIA, Bulgaria-- A bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgaria's interior minister said Thursday. He added that the suspected attacker was carrying a fake driver's license issued in Michigan.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the suspect appeared on security camera tape near the bus for nearly an hour before the attack at an airport in the Black Sea city of Burgas.
"We have established there was a person who was a suicide bomber in this attack (on Wednesday)," Tsvetanov told reporters. "This person had a fake driving license from the United States, from the state of Michigan. He looked like anyone else -- a normal person with Bermuda shorts and a backpack."
Authorities had managed to obtain DNA samples from the fingers of the suspected bomber and were now checking databases in an attempt to identify him, Tsvetanov added. Bulgarian security services had received no indications of a pending attack....
Bulgaria official: Suspected suicide bomber carried fake Michigan license
By NBC News staff and wire reports
Updated at 3:52 a.m. ET: SOFIA, Bulgaria-- A bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgaria's interior minister said Thursday. He added that the suspected attacker was carrying a fake driver's license issued in Michigan.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the suspect appeared on security camera tape near the bus for nearly an hour before the attack at an airport in the Black Sea city of Burgas.
"We have established there was a person who was a suicide bomber in this attack (on Wednesday)," Tsvetanov told reporters. "This person had a fake driving license from the United States, from the state of Michigan. He looked like anyone else -- a normal person with Bermuda shorts and a backpack."
Authorities had managed to obtain DNA samples from the fingers of the suspected bomber and were now checking databases in an attempt to identify him, Tsvetanov added. Bulgarian security services had received no indications of a pending attack....