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Germany: Suspect bet against Dortmund then bombed its bus

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BERLIN (AP) -- A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen took out a five-figure loan to bet that Borussia Dortmund shares would drop, then bombed the soccer team's bus in an attack he tried to disguise as Islamic terrorism in a scheme to net millions, German officials said Friday.
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At least Germany didn't move to start lynching Muslims before they found out the truth. It's not that way at this forum, where people were blaming Muslims and calling for penalties against the whole group for bombing the bus before the truth ever had a chance to come out about this bombing. Yea, you people know who you are.

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Did he still win the bet?
 
danarhea said:
At least Germany didn't move to start lynching Muslims before they found out the truth. It's not that way at this forum, where people were blaming Muslims and calling for penalties against the whole group for bombing the bus before the truth ever had a chance to come out about this bombing. Yea, you people know who you are.

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As I had said at the time, it had more the feel of conventional crime. It just didn't quack right to be terrorist. It had the look of an organized crime sports betting thing. That it turns out to be non organized is a little surprising, but a very much more scary type of crime than even terror. As a business model, you see, it could work very well. And it could be very difficult to solve such crimes or catch the perpetrators, if the thing is better structured. The spread of such activities could then be rather unpleasant.
 
danarhea said:
At least Germany didn't move to start lynching Muslims before they found out the truth. It's not that way at this forum, where people were blaming Muslims and calling for penalties against the whole group for bombing the bus before the truth ever had a chance to come out about this bombing. Yea, you people know who you are.

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Nobody on the forum was calling it a muslim terrorist attack because it didn't feel like a muslim terrorist attack. There were no children targeted for example.
 
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