Bomb May Have Been Aimed at Racist Group

A bomb that exploded Thursday morning at the entrance of a Glendale medical building may have been directed at a white supremacist organization whose leader has office space in the structure, the Glendale Fire Department reported.

The 3:30 a.m. explosion shattered windows at the two-story building in the 1200 block of S. Glendale Ave., causing about $5,000 in damage, said Capt. John Orr of the department’s arson-explosives unit. There were no reported injuries, he said.

The Fire Department received numerous calls from people who were awakened by the explosion, he said. No suspects had been identified Thursday, he said.

Orr said George King, a member of the League of Pace Amendment Advocates, told fire investigators that he believed the bomb was directed at his organization, which advocates deporting all people who are not white Christians. The organization’s spokesman, William Daniel Johnson, is a partner in a law firm that leases an office in the building. Orr said the law firm is moving from the building.

Johnson unsuccessfully sought election in April to a House of Representatives seat in Wyoming, left vacant when Richard B. Cheney was named secretary of defense by President Bush.

Orr described the bomb as home-made, of medium strength and with a delayed-action fuse.

He said the case was turned over to the FBI because it may have been politically motivated.