Updated 5:01 AM ET, Wed January 7, 2015
(CNN) The FBI is investigating an explosion outside a local NAACP chapter in Colorado.
The makeshift bomb, or improvised explosive device, detonated late Tuesday morning but failed to ignite a gasoline can placed alongside it. No one was injured but the incident left some in Colorado Springs shaken.
“All of a sudden I heard this big boom,” one witness toldCNN affiliate KDVR. “There was smoke everywhere the building on the side was burnt.”
The witness continued: “Whoever did it took off right away though. That’s all I heard and it was scary.”
The Denver office of the FBI said it’s looking for a balding man, about 40 years old, who was seen leaving the scene in a white pickup truck with a missing or covered license plate.
The FBI has not said if the NAACP was specifically targeted. But some pointed out that the other tenant in the building, Mr. G’s Hair Design Studios, likely was not.
“Who would want to bomb a beauty salon?” one member of the local NAACP chapter told CNN affiliate KCNC.
Henry D. Allen Jr., the branch’s president, also raised the specter of a targeted attack, telling KCNC, “Apparently, we’re doing something correct. Apparently, we have gotten someone’s attention that we are working toward civil rights for all. That is making some people uncomfortable.”
The NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. The group’s national office says it is looking forward to a “thorough investigation” into the explosion by national and local authorities.
The FBI has asked that anyone with information call its Denver tip line at (303) 435-7787.
Categories: Americas, Counter Terrorism, Terrorism
In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious Ever Merciful
Who so ever did it, is sick and crazy person and did a condemn able act of sabotage, he or they should be dealt with heavy hands and no excuse is acceptable. In the Holy Quran Allah says times and again in different verses of the Holy Quran in different scenario, “واللہ لایحب الفساد، لا تفسدو فی العرض” Do not create disorder in the earth as Allah does not Love disorderi.
However we must look into it what gave birth to these sick and crazy men, it is because of injustices in the world without global justice we can not terminate these kind of sabotage, we must not keep silence on the brutal killing of Palestinians by Israel. The Global Fair justice is only the solution of world peace. Zarif Ahmad