US bomber: 'It was just a little boom thing'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man who pleaded guilty to lobbing a homemade bomb at his girlfriend said he was actually aiming for a beaver dam. In the end, he was the only person injured, and he now faces 10 months in prison as well. According to sheriff's deputies, Wilkins had threatened the ex-girlfriend, then threw the bottle bomb at her car as she drove into her yard in Rougemont, North Carolina, about 30 miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina. Witnesses said the bomb exploded in "a large fireball," and then rolled back toward Wilkins, igniting his shorts. "I ain't no terrorist," he was quoted as saying in a law enforcement report from the incident last year. "It was just a little bit of black powder. It was just a little boom thing."