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PHOENIX-An acid bomb thrown from a moving car on Monday landed about 25 feet away from an imam involved in a discrimination lawsuit against US Airways,the Council on American-Islamic Relations said.Didmar Faja and another mosque official were standing outside a Glendale mosque around 1 a.m. when a plastic bottle launched through a car window came flying in their direction, according to CAIR.Police told CAIR the bottle was filled with acid and a reactant, and Faja and the mosque official said they smelled a chemical odor when the container exploded.No one was injured in the apparent attack.Within a 72-hour period, the Glendale Police Department said it responded to six acid bomb type of situations-all at random locations.CAIR said Faja had recently been threatened because of his involvement in a discrimination suit against US Airways.He was one of six Islamic religious leaders removed from a Nov. 20 flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix after passengers reported what they considered to be suspicious behavior.Glendale police said investigators are giving the case a high priority and are not ruling out the possibility of a bias motive,according to CAIR.While Arizona does not have a hate crimes statute,longer sentences can be imposed if a bias against the victim's ethnicity,religion, sexuality or disability is shown to have motivated an attack.Police said they believe the suspects of two males in their 20's who were driving a two-door red vehicle, possibly an older model Honda.As in the days of Noah...
