Walgreens "Terror"

From CFNEWS13


"It almost looked like a car battery, like a jumper box almost," said Morgan. "It had two hoses coming out of the top of it."

Morgan said he went to Walgreens at around 1 p.m. Monday to get some milk, when he noticed the device.

"Whenever I was walking out, I noticed the black box," he said. "It caught my eye, but I didn't think anything of it."

Neither did anyone else, at first. But five hours later, another customer spotted the device and reported to a Walgreens manager, who then called 911.

Officials from the FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Burean of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives all responded to the scene.

"They brought the robot up and checked out the scene, and I think that's when they realized that it was actually an explosive device," said Morgan.

Authorities eventually detonated the device.

"Kind of sounded like an M-80 thrown in a trash can, to be honest with you," Morgan recalled.

But the explosion could have been much worse. Morgan said the device was sitting right next to a cage of propane tanks.

Now, just the knowlege of such a threat was too powerful for him to ignore.

"To think that I walked right by a bomb at 1 o'clock in the afternoon to get some milk is pretty scary," said Morgan.

Authorities said they did not immediately know why someone would target this Walgreens, or who called in the tip.

Investigators said they will send what is left of the device to a laboratory to get whatever evidence they can from the fragments.

None Of This Makes Sense...

I'm feeling a little dismayed at how none of this UPS bomber stuff makes any sense at all and yet our politicians are pumping up the BS rhetoric about the War on Terror.

If the bombs were meant to blow up the airplane, why address them to synagogues?

It's a simple question without a good answer.

This reuters article makes little sense, because of that fact the pompous politcal rhetoric of an Obama or a Cameron even less.

From Reuters.

(Reuters) - Yemeni forces on Saturday arrested a woman believed to be involved in sending explosive packages bound for the United States that triggered a global security alert, Yemeni security officials said.

The arrest was the first in the case, in which two air freight packages containing bombs -- both sent from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago -- were intercepted in Britain and Dubai...

...Britain said the device found on a cargo plane at its East Midlands airport was big enough to down an aircraft.

"We believe the device was designed to go off on the aeroplane. We cannot be sure about the timing when that was meant to take place," Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters at Chequers, his country residence outside London.

Besides that, saying that the bomb on board could have brought down the plane seems ludicrous with the little smudge of white powder seen in pictures of the bomb. This material also tested negative for explosives in the first news reports which have since changed to "Explosives found in suspicious packages packed powerful punch."

Dubious indeed.

Not to mention Yemen denies that the planes came from them.

Foiled Times Square Rinky-Dink Terror Makes Powerful Propaganda?

From a week old Huffington Post article we can hear the President wax poetic about American resolve in the face of terror threats:


President Barack Obama said "hundreds of lives" may have been saved Saturday night by the quick action of ordinary citizens and law enforcement authorities who saw the smoking SUV parked in Times Square."As Americans and as a nation, we will not be terrorized. We will not cower in fear. We will not be intimidated," Obama said.

But will we be lied to? Manipulated? Deceived, Mr. President?

The New York Times admits in an article that the Times Square bomber is a perfect opportunity for the administration to acheive some long sought after goals.

...The administration sees the Times Square plot as a reason to push the Pakistanis to do several things it has long desired. “Sometimes things like this are an opportunity,” the official said.

An article in Mother Jones asks the obvious question about why the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force was reported to have been asking questions about Shahzad as early as 2004, and also, why they deny to have ever investigated him.

As asked in a previous post, if Holder and others want to fly with the Pakistani-Terrorcamp-Trained side of things, how can they explain that the Taliban trained him to build a bomb which had the wrong fertilizer?

In a NY Post article "Frank Doyle, a former bomb expert and 33-year FBI veteran, said he doubted Shahzad received proper training in Pakistan or elsewhere to build a bomb, particularly when it came to what type of fertilizer he used.
'I would question his degree of training or whatever he knew about it," Doyle told FoxNews.com. "That's only one of a series of really serious mistakes he made.'"

As pointed out in another article, not only did Faisal buy the wrong kind of fertilizer, he also bought the wrong kind of fireworks.

The fireworks -- M88 Silver Salutes -- will only explode if they are individually lit, according to Bruce Zoldan, who owns the 55-store Phantom Fireworks chain, which includes the Matamoros outlet where Shahzad made his buy.

Nonetheless our dear President talks of the "hundreds of lives" saved by the quick identification of the dangerous bomb-containing SUV parked in Times Square with its hazard lights flashing, containing a bomb with the wrong fertilizer and the wrong firecrackers to ever properly ignite. No propaganda there, none whatsoever I'm sure.

We haven't yet mentioned the oft-noted "Timing Device" of the bomb. Here is a picture of it, if you haven't already seen it.



Well, this War on Terror is an ongoing problem. Something our next President will also have to deal with I'm sure. But I have no fear, because our fierce and valiant President will look like this:



See Also: Times Square Bomber Had Pakistani Army, U.S. Embassy Connections