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Charlotte school bomb plot foiled

Aug. 24, 2007
Men allegedly planned school bomb to divert attention for a credit union robbery.

Four men have been charged in a plot to detonate pipe bombs at a Charlotte, N.C., school to divert attention from a credit union branch they intended to rob. Authorities did not know which school was allegedly targeted, but five Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools are within five miles of that credit union. Classes in the resume Monday, but some staff members were at the schools Thursday.

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