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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUncomfortable feeling that NY/NJ bombings were exploratory. .
Watching Rachel's discussion on the different types (in construction and explosive chemistry), and knowing that the suspect was discovered sleeping in a local doorway make me think he is just a handy stooge.
Is a local cell testing efficacy?
kentuck
(110,950 posts)Just from the placement of the bomb.
I would think our intelligence would have a file on every person that has visited the Middle East, along with Afghanistan and Pakistan, within the last two years.
That should be a red flag, imo.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)If there's nothing there, you can borrow some of my tinfoil. .
Zynx
(21,328 posts)Honestly, of all of the various things that can happen to me in the course of a day, terrorism is not even in the top 100.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)...and soaked up all the love they have for America?
closeupready
(29,503 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Yes, he was a half-baked moron.
The idea that these idiots have some massive brilliant scheme is bizarre and never borne out by the evidence. They're idiots.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)That definitely felt like a test
He/She used TATP explosive, which is the Euro-Jihadi favorite. I think Ahmad Khan Rahami used Tannerite.
malaise
(267,797 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Smells a little off that a bomber sets off a bomb on a Saturday in NYC and managed to find two different locations where there weren't people. The Boston bombers didn't have much problem figuring out where the people would be when they pulled the crime they pulled.
Not a CT type person, so i'm not going to extrapolate, but this whole thing has started awfully suspiciously.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)however, have stated he acted alone, and was not part of any kind of cell.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)This doesn't strike me as anything more.
Inspired by Trump's message of "if they piss you off, hit 'em hard, punch their lights out."