Michigan bomb find raises terrorist concern

A routine traffic stop, Michigan bomb find raises terrorist concern on busy I-75 near Royal Oak

The National Terror Alert Response Center reported Tuesday, Feb. 26, on a Monday afternoon rush-hour traffic situation following a police chase and what appeared to be a pipe-bomb thrown from the vehicle during the pursuit.

After a traffic-choked freeway closure imposed at the height of Monday’s afternoon rush, the busy lanes of I-75 at I-696 in Royal Oak were reopened at 5:10 p.m. following a police chase and capture of a man thought to have thrown a pipe bomb from his car.

“We’ve got him in custody,” Royal Oak Police Chief Ted Quisenberry said at 5:15 p.m. “We recovered money, and we recovered the stuff that he threw out of the car that looked like it was explosive,” Quisenberry said.

A bomb squad from the Michigan State Police exploded the suspected pipe bomb and “now they’re examining the contents to see if it was actually explosive or just looked that way,” the chief said.

Royal Oak police earlier had said that a possible explosive had been tossed from a car driven south on I-75 by a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred around 3 p.m. at a payday-loan outlet on East 11 Mile near the Royal Oak Farmers Market.

The suspect, a man who has not been identified by police, reportedly stole a car on the way out of the check-cashing branch.

Police chased the suspect south on I-75 to Davison and M-10 in Detroit, where the man’s car became disabled by a tire problem. 

Police arrested the suspect and took him to Sinai Grace Hospital, the NTARC reported. Further information about the suspect had not been released.

Would it be unfair profiling to inquire further about the man’s national and ethnic background, or to ask if he’s Islamic or of another religious or ideological belief?

There are many saying to inquire after possible Islamist Muslim jihad connections to every criminal incident just blows the Islamic threat issue beyond proportion.

Never-the-less, our calling is in favor of a nation-wide network of active, involved citizens joined to the cause of looking – and briefly setting aside common criminal activity – in order to compare notes on possible threat trends.

The group is called the Paul Revere Brigade, just follow the link on the Christian Action Network homepage…

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