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I confess that, even given the grim excesses of this plague-ridden year, I didn t expect an American suicide bomber on Christmas Day. Officials are being very delicate about calling Anthony Quinn Warner, identified through bits of himself found at the scene on Sunday as the man who detonated a recreational vehicle on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville, a terrorist. Thanks to some alert and very brave police work, and for reasons that remain vague, and therefore extraordinarily pliable to a fevered public imagination, Warner killed only himself. From
While acquaintances on Sunday described Tony Warner as a self-employed computer guru and a homebody who tended to his pets and kept to himself police officers on the scene before the bomb exploded recalled a strange recording emanating from the RV. In between a digitized female voice giving warnings to evacuate the area, there was music, the officers said. Downtown, a wistful 1964 song by Petula Cl
of the rush-hour commuters. the new york city sanitation department promises to repair several cars after one of its snowplow workers got caught removing more than just snow. the driver of one of the city s plows plowing into a car. when sanitation workers game to investigation, they initially balked at the claims but initially came clean when they saw the videotape. now back to our other big story from austin, texas, where a man angry at the irs set his house on fire yesterday and flew his small plane into an office building. two people, including the pilot, joseph stack, died. 13 people in the building were injured. joining us now on the phone from austin is austin police chief. chief, what s the scene now? is the building structurally sound? yeah, the building is sound, it is stable.
early this morning in texas 53-year-old andrew joseph stack replaced the website for his software website with a 5,000-word fairly incoherent creed about the evils of the irs and other things that made him feel victimized and angry. he apparently then set fire to his own house. then drove to the airport, got into a single airplane and crashed it into a building that houses federal offices including those of the irs. the pilot was killed. 13 people on the scene were injured. two of them critically. an fbi spokesman had told the austin statemen that another body was recovered from the scene after the body of mr. stack. law enforcement officials
bitter dispute with the irs triggered yesterday s suicide attack in austin, texas. he flew a small plane into the side of an office building. two bodies recovered from the scene. the investigation is revealing new clues about his motive, laid out in his own words. we are joined from austin outside that building. that building housed hundreds of irs workers. what can you tell us? reporter: joseph stack, a 53-year-old software engineer in austin. he had taken a plane from a nearby airport and drove that plane into the nearby echelon building. 13 people injured. 2 people died. one of them being stack. about 45 minutes before that, he set fire to his house, and as you mentioned, he had an ongoing beef or dispute with the irs and he left that in a rant right
touch with facebook and they said bhie they took it down. they said in response to our questions that they have a team that removes contents that violates their policy including content that s hateful, including nudity and pornography and along with that we remove essentially groups supporting joseph stack s actions. other groups remain online when they last checked were not overly threatening. so they re saying that there are some they were noncensuring but they do have they do have policies and they found that some of this was objectable. in terming of this being a loan wolf and seeming to be a troubled ill man, some real, some seemingly imagined, what happened with the law enforcement? had he survived there would be a clear series of events.