Making America Safer

I'm sure this isn't the type of terrorist George was thinking about when he gave his speech yesterday. Still, I feel al ot safer with this guy off of the street than I do with someone in Iraq.

Police foil planned abortion clinic bombing

AP
June 8, 2006

RIVERDALE, Md. - A man who told police he made a pipe bomb to attack an abortion clinic was arrested Thursday, shortly before the device went off in a friend’s home while authorities tried to disable it, according to court documents.

No one was injured by the explosion, which started a fire that burned the top floor of the Riverdale home, officials said.

Some friends of Robert F. Weiler Jr. had tipped off police about the 25-year-old’s plans Wednesday night.

Weiler then called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and surrendered to state troopers at a rest stop on Interstate 68 just after midnight. Investigators found a handgun and ammunition in his car, officials said.

According to an ATF affidavit, Weiler planned to bomb an abortion clinic in Greenbelt and use a .40-caliber handgun he had stolen from a friend to “shoot doctors who provided abortions.”

Still, I'll bet you he never missed church on Sundays and was a "nice and quiet" person who wouldn't harm a fly.