One man dead in suspected bomb explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons

[Space Tycoon]

One man dead in suspected bomb explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons (http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=n040233A)

TORONTO (CP) - The heart of Toronto's trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill Sunday after an explosion killed one man at a Tim Horton's outlet.

Police would not confirm early reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast with explosives strapped to his body.

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A Tim Hortons spokesman confirmed the dead man was not an employee, but his identity was not immediately known.



So for all we know, this could be a disgruntled employee, or it could be exactly what I've been saying would happen for months-- retribution for Canada's pointless combat role in Afghanistan.

We just don't know.




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[DaForce]

Or some nut with a pipe bomb.

We've had two incidents like that in the SF bay area, one turned out to be an old flashlight missing the bulb, the other was an explosive device that didn't go off. Both were left in coffeehouse (Starbucks) bathrooms.

[Space Tycoon]

I hope that's all it is. Not that that makes it any easier for the victim's family or anything.

Then again, it may not be. I shall reserve judgement for the time being. I remember vividly the Air France 358 disaster (or near disaster) of last year. At the time I was so willing to believe it was terrorism, rather than bad weather, as is currently believed.

Canada has dealt with terrorism in the past: the FLQ crisis in 1970; the Air India bombing of 1985. I really can't say what our response would be if a real mass attack took place in a Canadian city. Surely, by slowly aligning ourselves more closely with the Bush administration's foreign policy, we are making ourselves more of a target for certain jihadists.

Canada has a good-sized Muslim population. Most are relatively moderate, educated, loyal. Interestingly, some of the earliest efforts to build a fighting Islamic resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan occured right here in Mississauga in the 70's, back when this was little more than a suburb of Toronto.

It would be horribly ironic if history were to repeat itself somehow...




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[Intelligent_Design]

Canada has a good-sized Muslim population.






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Yep, thats why we really need to watch that mexican border cause Terrah-ists can come in to the US from there.

[Intelligent_Design]

Why are they all at Starbuck's too?


If I was an upsart OBL, the first thing I would attack is America's coffee supplys. What if everyone couldn't have a morning coffee? It would cause mass panic.

[Meathead]

Confirmation from police that the individual did NOT have explosives strapped to his body from Pulse24 (http://www.pulse24.com). A person who was in the bathroom shortly before the explsion told police he smelled gasoline or the smell of aerosol paint propellant and preliminary investigations indicate that the man was killed when the accelerants covering his body ignited after the initial explosion. This may very well have been a paint huffer going for a toot in a Timmy's washroom who managed to blow himself up when lighting a cigarette after huffing...or it could have been an ex-employee or a random psycho, but according to Staff Sgt Cole of Metropolitan Toronto Police it was not a "strap-on Al-Qaida bomber guy" that caused the explosion.

[neglet]

This may very well have been a paint huffer going for a toot in a Timmy's washroom who managed to blow himself up when lighting a cigarette after huffing...or it could ahve been an ex-employee or a random psycho, but aggording to Sgt Cole of Metropolitan Toronto Police it was not a "strap-on Al-Qaida bomber guy" that caused the explosion.

Naw, it was someone who'd had a few too many bran muffins and tried to light a blue angel in the men's room.:o