What If This Man was Arab or Muslim? Man Pulled Over For Speeding Had 48 Bombs In the Car

By Laura Arenschield
The Columbus Dispatch

January 09, 2014 "Information Clearing House - "The Columbus Dispatch" - An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday.

Andrew Scott Boguslawski

Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to detonate the bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski’s civilian job is as a groundskeeper at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in south-central Indiana. Prosecutors could not say definitively yesterday whether the blueprints in his car were for the facility where he worked.

Boguslawski also had a bulletproof vest in his car, Pronai said.

“He said something to the trooper about making a bomb vest,” Pronai said.

Lt. Col. Cathy Van Bree, a spokeswoman for the Indiana National Guard, said Boguslawski is a specialist in the guard who does intelligence analysis and has top-secret clearance.

Pronai said Boguslawski, who is from Moores Hill, Ind., appeared to be heading to Indiana when a state trooper clocked him going 85 mph in a 70 mph zone on I-70. When the trooper came back to the car to give Boguslawski a ticket, he saw the handle of a gun between his legs.

The trooper ordered Boguslawski out of the car and called for backup. Investigators found three more guns in the car — all loaded — and 48 bombs. They also found material to make more explosives.

Pronai said most of the bombs were small. He said investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have searched Boguslawski’s house, and that local and federal investigators are trying to determine whether Boguslawski planned to attack the military facility. They are also combing through a computer, cameras and GPS found in his car.

Boguslawski is charged in Madison County with one count of manufacturing explosives, a second-degree felony. A preliminary court hearing is scheduled for Friday. He is being held at Tri-County Jail in Mechanicsburg in lieu of a $1 million bond.

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Brutal hate crime in California, gets drowned in the media news by black teen shooting in Florida

Mother, 32, dies after brutal racist attack in her own home by killer who left note saying 'go back to your country'
DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 01:04 EST, 25 March 2012 | UPDATED: 01:05 EST, 25 March 2012

  
Attack: Shaima Alawadi, (left), was found close to death by her 17-year-old daughter Fatima Al Himidi, (right)

A 32-year-old woman from Iraq who was found severely beaten next to a threatening note saying 'go back to your country' died yesterday.

Shaima Alawadi was taken off life support three days after being attacked with a tire iron, according to Hanif Mohebi, director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

'The family is in shock at the moment. They're still trying to deal with what happened,' Mr Mohebi said.

Ms Alawadi, a mother of five, had been hospitalised since her 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious on Wednesday in the family's house in El Cajon, California. The daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI-TV her mother had been beaten on the head repeatedly with a tire iron, and that the note said 'go back to your country, you terrorist.'

Addressing the camera, the tearful daughter asked: 'You took my mother away from me. You took my best friend away from me. Why? Why did you do it?'

She also said: 'We're not the terrorists, you are - whoever did it.' Police said the family had found a similar note earlier this month but did not report it to authorities.

Miss Al Himidi told KGTV-TV her mother dismissed the first note, found outside the home, as a child's prank. A family friend, Sura Alzaidy, told UT San Diego that the attack apparently occurred after the father took the younger children to school. Ms Alzaidy told the newspaper the family is from Iraq, and that Alawadi is a 'respectful modest muhajiba,' meaning she wears the traditional hijab, a head scarf.

Investigators said they believe the assault is an isolated incident.

'A hate crime is one of the possibilities, and we will be looking at that,' Lt. Mark Coit said. 'We don't want to focus on only one issue and miss something else.'

The family had lived in the house in San Diego County for only a few weeks, after moving from Michigan. Ms Alzaidy told the newspaper her father and Ms Alawadi's husband had previously worked together in San Diego as private contractors for the U.S. Army, serving as cultural advisers to train soldiers who were going to be deployed to the Middle East.

Mr Mohebi said the family had been in the United States since the mid-1990s. He said it was unfortunate that the family didn't report the initial threatening note.

'Our community does face a lot of discriminatory, hate incidents and don't always report them,' Mr Mohebi said. 'They should take these threats seriously and definitely call local law enforcement.'

El Cajon, northeast of downtown San Diego, is home to some 40,000 Iraqi immigrants, the second largest such community in the U.S. after Detroit. 


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