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Alabama Teen Nabbed in High School Bomb Plot
Monday, January 7, 2013    
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Derek Shrout reportedly named teacher, 6 students as targets

(NEWSER– A 17-year-old planned to bomb his Alabama high school, police say, but his plot was foiled after a teacher found his detail-filled journal. Derek Shrout reportedly left the diary in her classroom; while flipping through it in search of a name, she noticed plans for an attack that mentioned six students and a teacher, reports the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Ga. Shrout had "obviously put a lot of thought into the plan," says the local police chief. Though Shrout claimed the writing was fictional, a search of his house turned up the makings of explosives.

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