Explosives near Capitol go undetected for weeks

[Thor_MN]

Source: CNN.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Authorities revealed Tuesday that a man carrying a loaded shotgun was arrested in January near the U.S. Capitol, and explosives left in his truck nearby went undetected for three weeks.
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Gorbey allegedly tried to manufacture a "weapon of mass destruction, that is, an explosive device capable of causing multiple deaths or serious bodily injuries to multiple persons, or massive destruction of property," according to the indictment.
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U.S. Capitol Police discovered the explosive device three weeks later when they returned with a search warrant to check the truck, which was in a government parking lot.
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The device was made of a can of gunpowder taped to a box of shotgun shells and a bottle with buckshot or BB pellets, according to court documents.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/26/gunman.capitol.ap/index.html

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Black powder WMDs... Can we be far from FMD, Firecrackers of Mass Destruction? PPMD, Party Poppers of Mass Destruction? Everyone be afraid!!!

[Donnachaidh]

1. THREE WEEKS to get a warrant?

Someone needs to be shitcanned quickly. Let's start with Skeletor, err Chertoff.

[Tesha]

5. Well this is what happens when the FISA bill doesn't get passed!

:sarcasm:, as if I needed it.

[Virginia Dare]

13. One of the officers was relieved of duty...

but I agree with you on Skeletor.

[bottomofthehill]

2. If that is a WMD>>>>>

Than I am now in total agreement with the President, I am now convinced that Sadam not only had the knowledge and ability to create these WMD's but i am willing to bet he had a few. The invasion of Iraq is now justified in my mind.

[Historic NY]

3. And they worry about foreign terrorists...........

our own homegrown terrorists slip through the cracks.

[Night_Nurse]

4. WMDs

They couldn't find them over there (Iraq), because they can't find them here - right under their own noses.

[LiberalFighter]

6. That is the level of competence to be found in the Capitol Police

[sofa king]

7. Wow, back in my day we called those things "car bombs."

But now that anything that can kill more than one person at once is a WMD, I'm going to go turn my family in for owning a gas grill.

[Ian David]

8. I get the impression they're working very hard to "let something happen." n/t

[Ian David]

9. "No one could have anticipated the car bomb left alone for 3 weeks could have exploded." n/t

[billybob537]

10. You arrest an Idiot walking around DC

with a shotgun, but don't look in his car for three weeks? Has anybody heard of probable cause? When will the adults be incharge again? This is beyond stupid, if his name was hussein they would have tortured him.

[lonestarnot]

11. Damn! Circle K has been giving away free lighters w/smokes.

I have a brazzillion. I guess I better turn myself into the
'merican porta potty aka H.S.

[slackmaster]

12. A can of gunpowder is not much of a bomb

It's not even a high-order explosive.

What is described would qualify as a (highly illegal) destructive device, but not a WMD under federal law.

[tanyev]

14. Ooo-eee! Look how much safer we are now.