Hat tip to Atlas.
FBI Offers Reward In Bomb Scare KOTV.com
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- The FBI on Friday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who placed an explosive device outside a Jewish temple last week in Muskogee. The device was made of an explosive material contained in cooking oil containers and placed inside a shopping cart that was discovered Saturday, March 24, outside the Temple Beth Ahaba, said FBI spokesman Gary Johnson.
The device was deactivated by bomb technicians with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the FBI and sent to an FBI laboratory Quantico, Va., for analysis, Johnson said. He declined to say what explosives were used.
A man discovered the device at the temple Saturday evening, removed a homemade timer that was connected to it and brought the timer to a nearby fire department, said FBI agent Kyle Bonath.
Bonath said the device may have been placed next to the temple as early as Wednesday.
Although a specific motive hasn't been determined, the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, Bonath said.
The synagogue was vandalized with a Nazi symbol last year.
There was also a swastika painted on a synsgogue in San Francisco, and Yonkers. Perhaps they read Daily Kos. (hat tip, LGF)
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