October 14, 2002

Anti-War Activists Burn Recruiting Office

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Will ROTC buildings at colleges and universities

be next?

San Jose, Alta California, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- An

anonymous caller to a San Jose television station took

credit for a pre-dawn fire at a military recruiting

office Monday, cryptically referring to the blaze as a

"pre-emptive strike."

Fire crews arriving at the facility on McKee Road

shortly after 4 a.m. PDT found two government-owned

vehicles parked in the rear engulfed in flames. They

also discovered broken glass doors and the words

"Preemptive Strike" written on the front walls in red

paint, an apparent reference to the possibility the

United States could launch a military attack on Iraq

aimed at squelching the development of weapons of mass

destruction by Baghdad.

"The graffiti is certainly an indication of the motive,"

Marty McKee, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco and Firearms told reporters at the scene.

At about the same time the fire was reported, the news

desk at San Jose television station KNTV received a

call from an unidentified male who stated, "At 4

o'clock this morning, we have taken a pre-emptive

strike against a military recruiting office here on

McKee."

The station reported that the caller did not claim

affiliation with any political group and did not have

a detectable accent.

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