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Library Bomb Suspect Claims InnocenceAn Illinois man charged with setting off an explosive device at the Salt Lake City Public Library September 15 said in the November 30 Salt Lake City Deseret News that federal authorities have the wrong man. Tom Zajac, 53, of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, contacted reporters from the Weber County Jail in Ogden, Utah, where he has been held since his extradition in early November, and told them, “I’ll have been found guilty for some of the things I didn’t do.”Zajac admitted he was in the library “within 28 hours” of the bombing “studying the Mormon religion,” but claims he does not match the description that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives had circulated. “I’m not fat. I’m not heavyset,” he said, describing himself as a “reasonably fit gray-haired gentleman.” ATF agent Michael Minichino wrote in an affidavit that library surveillance tapes showed a heavyset man going in and out of bathrooms on the library’s second and third floors. The bomb—made from galvanized pipe, explosive powder, and a hobby-store rocket igniter—exploded on the third floor, blowing out a window and forcing officials to evacuate hundreds of people. Posted December 1, 2006. |
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