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*Student Disciplined for Bomb Manual*
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Collinsville Herald-Journal
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3/21/93-Pg. 7-A
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Martin Richter
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Three Collinsville High School Students were disciplined
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after one was caught reading a bomb-makeing manual in class-a
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chilling reminder of just how easy information on bomb makeing
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is to come by.
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The proliferation of such information has been a topic of
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conversation in the wake of the bombing of the Trade Center
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in New York.In published reports,investigatorshave said they
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found bom-making manuals in apartments of suspects raided
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after the bombing.
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Collinsville Det. Bob Vecchetti who handled the case,said a
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16-year-old student who recently transferred to CHS from out
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of state had gotten the information from a computer network and
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brought it here.
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"That's what the one teenager said.",Vachetti said."He likes
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computers,and he found the printout,and he printed out the
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literature."
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"The three just handed them from one to the other,just for
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reading material.The third kid brought it to school and was caught
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with it."
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Vechetti said it appeared that the three students had no intention of
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building a bomb,and had the information mainly out of curiosity.
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"Basicly we gave them a lectureon why they shouldn't readthat type of
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material,"he said."that's the wrong kind of curosity,in my opinion."
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He said the information was "a pretty good sized pamphlet" containing
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at least 20 different catagories of bombs.
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Police Chief John Swindlee said he has always been concerned about how
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easy it is to obtain information on bomb makeing.
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"From past experiance,i know that type of thing is easily available in
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bookstores,"Swindle said."I don't think it's very difficult to get a book
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on it...I don't like to see books like `The Anarchist Cookbook' where they
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into detail on how to hurt people."
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But he added that haveing such information is not against the law.
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"There's nothing we can do locally,with the First Amendment,"he said.
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The world Trade Center blast has reminded Americans that they arn't immune to
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terrorism in the United States.While Collinsville obviosly is not high
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on terrorisms' list of targets,Swindle said it isn't inconceivable that
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there could someday be an incident in this area.
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"Our biggest danger,I would think,would be that we would accidently
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come on contact with these people,with the interstate highways and the
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motels here- maybe stop them for something like that,"Swindle said.
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Swindle recalled an incident a year or two agoin which a powerfull
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pipe bomb was used to blow up some mailboxes here.And he remembered
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responding to a suicide at a local motel when he was still a detective,
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when a small box wit ha button on it was found next to the body.
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"Fortunately i didn't press the button,"Swindle said."It was rigged to
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a pipe bomb under the bed.
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(END)
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