4d ago

Two men arrested in Utah after bomb found under news vehicle

www.theguardian.com

Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’

Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn’t go off.

Police and fire department bomb squads responded on Friday when a suspicious device was found under the vehicle parked near an occupied building.

Investigators determined the bomb “had been lit but failed to function as designed”, according to court records cited by CBS affiliate KUTV.

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Geee, it’s almost as if Republicans are violent and hateful.
- But they are so "pro-life".
  
  Charlie Kirk was pro life. He died pretty damned quick.
  
  Pro-birth.
- They ran off with a rhetoric without any facts first, showed everyone how violent they want to be, the facts now show that their rhetoric was ignorant bullshit, they still want to be violent anyway so they’re going to do it in the name of their original rhetoric, facts be damned. They are just violent psychopaths. Stay strapped with that scum walking amongst us
- Not saying I disagree with the statement, but where did you see that these men were Republicans? I didn't find any reference to any political motivation in the article, but I also didn't read it particularly thoroughly
  
  If they were left leaning in any way they would have led with that.
  
  I didn't find any reference to any political motivation
  I didn't either, but that probably implies they are white christofacists, right? (Or, as the Utah governor put it, "one of us"?)
  If their demographic was any different and fit the narratives that the Right is trying to spin on this, it would have been leaked already....
  
  Not Republican, MAGA. Republicans don't exist anymore. And we know they were MAGA, because the bomb didn't go off, because MAGAs are predictably virtuosically incompetent. If they were Democrats, the bomb would have worked.
  Also Republicans are too cowardly to try to bomb anything. MAGAs are cowardly, too, but the are also breath-takingly stupid, so their stupidity often overwhelms their cowardice, and they do remarkably dumb stuff, like try to storm the Capitol.
- Where are u seeing that they're right wing? I looked everywhere and couldn't find it
- And incompetent.
What’s going on in Utah?
- Just your normal religious and political oppression.
  
  Johnny Harris just did a video about his time as a Mormon and how rich the church is
  
  Average day in Utah, and every other Red state.
- American stochastic terrorism
  
  Yep, we're starting to see the results of 40+ years of very dark, very violent propaganda
- Mormonism and narcissism. I say this as a former Mormon from Utah. They are not as peaceful as they seem.
  
  High profile Mormon crime in the past 10 years alone is pretty staggering
  
  Whole show called American Primeval about the Mormons. Great miniseries.
- Just the usual right wing terrorism.
- Nothing has changed.
- too much SALT lakes.
- been that way since i been born
- Magic underwear went on sale, they are channeling the strength of the morman faith!
  They are one of the most conservative States, they usually rack up near 70% Republican and Libertarians are not an insignificant number of the rest. Even though they claimed to hate the president.
"Had been lit", was it like a stick of dynamite?
- In the guardian one line sort of suggested an incendiary, but then later in searching the house they said explosive material. There is a huge difference between actual explosives and incendiaries. Gasoline and dynamite are completely different animals.
  
  i don't trust the news to get the difference between high explosives, explosives, firebombs, and potato guns.
  
  My guess... It was anfo but they tried to set it off with a bit of string that they lit.
  
  i bet thermite
- Probably one of the round ones with the fuse coming out of the top. My understanding from TV is that modern dynamite isn't lit but set off with a plunger or twisty mechanism attached to wires.
Hmmm I sure wonder which side these two guys belonged to.......
- Definitely liberal democratic socialists. Definitely.
  
  They probably have pro-trans ideologies
Looks like Cox has more of them "one of us" to contend with now.
- his go to would be, "thier minds have been polluted by transgendered agendas"- SPENCER COX
When are they getting invaded with Nazi jackboots?
Looks like right wing Muslims playing the smart game and provoking the nazis I to do what they always wanted to do.
Fuck both of them.
I recommend watching “murder among the Mormons” on Netflix.
- under the banner of heaven is great too. depicts leaving a cult quite honestly

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