The suspects in the bombing at a California fertility clinic on Saturday described it as “intentional act of terrorism.”
The explosion has put the single-story American Reproductive Center clinic in high-end Palm Springs in a difficult situation, although a doctor told the Associated Press staff were safe.
“Thank God today is a day when we have no patients,” Dr. Maher Abdallah, who leads the clinic, told the Associated Press in a telephone interview Saturday.
Akil Davis, head of the FBI's field office in Los Angeles, said all embryos from the facility were preserved.
Investigators said Sunday that the suspect, identified as 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, posted a book online and tried to record the explosion, despite authorities saying the video failed to upload online. An official who had no authority to discuss details of the attack spoke with the Associated Press on anonymity.
A law enforcement official said the person believed the person in charge of the attack published a casual online book before the explosion.
“There is no doubt that this is a deliberate act of terrorism,” Davis said in an evening press conference Saturday.
