Bomb-wielding man believed to be holding hostages at Clinton campaign office

LATEST UPDATE: (11:27 pst)

Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was released by the hostage-taker.

"A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,'" witness Lettie Tzizik said.

Witnesses described the man as in his 40s with salt-and-pepper hair.

There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.

"I walked out and I immediately started running, and I saw that the road was blocked off. They told me run and keep going," said Cassandra Hamilton, who works in an office adjacent to the building.

http://www.wmur.com/news/14737868/detail.html

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Bomb-wielding man believed to be holding hostages at Clinton campaign office
RAW STORY
Published: Friday November 30, 2007


A man with a bomb strapped to his chest walked into a Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire and is believed to be holding staffers hostage, according to several reports.

Details were still emerging about the situation early Friday afternoon, but Clinton was not in New Hampshire Friday.

Authorities appear to have cleared the area around the office, in downtown Rochester, NH. Video of the scene broadcast Friday afternoon on MSNBC showed empty streets around the office, with police cars posted outside.

It was not immediately clear what was happening inside the office, and police have asked television stations to stop broadcasting live images of the offices so as not to interfere with their attempts to negotiate with the hostage-taker.

Witness Lettie Tzizik told WMUR that she spoke to a woman shortly after she was released from the office by the hostage-taker.

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bombwielding_man_believed_to_be_holding_1130.html


More here:

Hostages Taken At Clinton Campaign Office
Police Unclear As To How Many People Involved

POSTED: 1:13 pm EST November 30, 2007
UPDATED: 1:49 pm EST November 30, 2007


BOSTON -- An armed man took people hostage Friday at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire, police said.

The incident happened at about 1 p.m. Friday at 28 North Main St. in Rochester. Officials said that a man is holding people hostage at the office, but it is unclear how many people are being held.

There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.

more at:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14737866/detail.html

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WHDH is reporting...
...that the entire downtown Rochester area has been evacuated. I wonder if this is more serious than the sketchy details we have so far would indicate.


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Already are, in Freeper land

They’re probably doing it to themselves. (Or someone from the Democratic Underground is "helping" Hillary’s campaign. - Scan59, Free Republic

Probably Karl Rove has something to do with it. Lets ask Randy Rhodes and see if she can give us a conspiracy theory!!
-- Holicheese, Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932902/posts

I guess people like the Fox Pig Sty and Ann Coulter are proud of the people they rev up to this state.

It is a wonder that more of the people they have edged on to kill and maim and send anthrax haven't carried it out yet.

This may be a home-grown terrorist, like Tim McVeigh. Since these types tend to be Christian, there will be no organized effort to track their associates down and hold them to justice. They'll insist it's just crazy individuals, not any kind of terrorist cell activity. :(

:cry: I hope everyone gets out ok.

you're a mod! Congratulations and good luck.

What the hell is wrong with people?

god, this is terrible.

The wrong meds without the right observation as bad (or even worse) than not getting any meds

Could be a domestic dispute gone public? Seems to happen more as holidays approach

Or someone who thinks Coulter is a prophet

Or just someone:
lonely
desperate
seriously disturbed
who may have lost a loved one to the war

So many possible triggers for people to come unhinged, it's amazing it doesn't happen more often.

I just wonder what statement is being made and by whom, an indivual or group?

This is horrible on many levels. :cry:

MKJ

I remember that not so long ago, actions of nut jobs like the New Hampshire hostage taker would be enough to sink the presidential aspirations of either party. Voters would recoil at voting for the political party most closely asssociated with people who had gone off the political or psychological deep end. Of course, this sort of voter behavior was the sort that a formerly half-rational electorate used to display before the rise of the right-wing propaganda machine, Lee Atwater-style attacks, and the so-called Swiftboaters for truth.

Would the GOP take a well-deserved shellacking at the polls as a result of association with this New Hampshire cherub, or is it again a case of IOKALAYAR (It's OK as long as you are Republican) trumping standards of moral, ethical, and legal behavior?

(it only works against the Democrats).

ex boyfriend or husband.

a blathering "hostage" expert who couldn't even remember Pres Carter's last name? (MSNBC)

MKJ

I'm not a betting man, but were I-- I'd take you up on that, and give two to one that it's simply one of Limbaugh's ditto-head after being whipped into a frenzy about how he's supposed to "hate Hillary above all others..."

Anyone been following RL this week? Has he been railing with his patented righteous indignation about Sen. Clinton this week (well... more than usual)?

On edit: Batting man? How about betting man...