A selection of story quotes describing al Qaeda toner cartridge bombs that didn’t go off. al Qaeda plots, even when they don’t work, which is a lot of the time, are always innovative, creative and sophisticated.
Before the September shipments reached their destinations in Chicago, U.S. authorities seized and searched the boxes. They removed “papers, books and other materials??? that now appear to have been sent by the Yemeni militant group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to test the logistics of the air cargo system, the official said.
Which raises the question why didn’t Yemen get shitcanned as an entry point for small air freight shipments back then?
The two bombs contained 300 and 400 grams of the industrial explosive PETN, according to a German security official, who briefed reporters Monday in Berlin on condition of anonymity in line with department guidelines.
By comparison, the bomb stuffed into a terrorist suspect’s underwear on the Detroit-bound plane contained about 80 grams.
“It shows that they are trying to again make different types of adaptations based on what we have put in place,??? said John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser. “So the underwear bomber, as well as these packages, are showing sort of new techniques on their part. They are very innovative and creative???
EXPLOSIVE devices found on two planes were “very sophisticated”, both in the way they were constructed and concealed, a top US security official has said.
One of US President Barack Obama’s security advisers, John Brennan, said the devices, hidden inside printer toner cartridges, were very difficult to detect
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says there’s also evidence of novel and more sophisticated devices, including explosives that can be sewn inside the body. These devices can only be detected with the use of body scanners, a security measure which is still being resisted in most countries, including Australia.
Clearly these groups have shown a degree of innovation in the types of bombs that they’re making and how they’re using them. Things like prosthetic limbs, women masquerading as being pregnant, but in fact carrying a bomb inside a cavity in their bellies. Even the idea that breast implants or buttock implants could be used to hide a bombing device.
The chief executive of the intelligence agency IntelCenter, Ben Venzke, said: “If this attack is by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula it demonstrates an accelerated ability to design new and innovative ways of conducting IED attacks and a focused effort to execute those attacks on US soil …
Terror expert Dr Sally Leivesley said it appeared to be a “sophisticated” device which may have used the powdered toner as a means of evading screening.
Their airplane bombers — Richard Reid and the equally feeble underwear bomber — also present problems.
This constrains the bombmaker with obstacles in the form of unreliability, not only from the human angle — but also from the technical side.
In an attempt to remove the need for the bomber, an al Qaeda group’s air-shipped bombs faced additional problems with timing and whether or not they would actually work. And the results, in this case, are apparent.
So rather than always deadeningly looking at it from the side which describes these people as “innovative” and “creative,” one can also observe it from the angle that they are increasingly constrained. And that their technical expertise is definitely finite.
Which is not to say that if they try enough they won’t get lucky.
On the other hand, there are way bigger fish to fry in terms of problems — national and geopolitical.
“They did a witch-hunt and a during a Gestapo, jack-booted thug raid based on the allegation that my forked horn buck was a spike as spurred on by phone calls from the ‘Ted Haters.'”
California game wardens are “infested” — infiltrated — by interests from animal rights’ groups, Nugent added.
In the blog post, Nugent said he took one for his buddy when pleading to the charges.
Although the report is garbled, it apparently has something to do with a Nugent colleague being found in possession of brass knuckles, Ted intimating he took the fall to make the more serious charge go away.
In California, brass knuckles are outlawed. Possession is a felony.
The legalities are discussed here in a news report relating what happened when Electronic Arts sent out brass knuckles, which were hurriedly recalled, as part of a Godfather game promotion:
In the United States alone, brass knuckles are illegal in at least ten states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Ted, however, vowed revenge:
“There was a witch-hunt for Ted Nugent, but they’re going to lose. I’m going to get them.”
Rocker Ted Nugent won’t be hunting in Kansas this fall, said Kevin Jones, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks law enforcement chief. Nugent has bowhunted in Kansas several years and has an archery deer permit for the current season … Jones said Kansas’ electronic license system will not permit Nugent to purchase a hunting license online or over-the-counter.
And there is Nugent’s election-eve column in the Washington Times, a very poor man’s Ayn Rand — here.
From Crooks & Liars, a good ad hoc video juxtaposing Sterling Hayden’s “fluoride, precious bodily fluids and commies” moments with Jerry Boykin on infiltration.
Many have previously noticed the similarities between the extremist paranoid GOP/Tea Party and the Strangelove psychosis with contamination of the American body.
Most recently, Ted Nugent — acting as a mouthpiece for the Team B report on Muslim subversion through Shariah law, was written of here:
In the fact-based world, Nugent’s essay — as does the Team B report — takes on the air of something heard from General Jack Ripper, telling Lionel Mandrake at Burpelson AFB, why he launched the bomb wing at the Soviet Union.
Nugent uses the word “poisoning??? twice in his essay. It’s a less elegant construction than Ripper’s dialog, concocted by Terry Southern and Peter George for the script of Dr. Strangelove:
“A foreign substance is introduced into the precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual and certainly without any free choice. That’s the way the commies work…” — Jack Ripper
In Team B’s case (and for Nugent’s essay), the nefarious foreign substance is Shariah law, not fluoride put into ice cream by the commies.
The United States has always had Jerry Boykins and Ted Nugents. But they used to always be swept to the fringes, their vein of American neurosis emerging as good satire in movies like Dr. Strangelove.
Everyone laughs. Great movie.
It’s no longer a joke. These people — and their way of thinking — are a genuine threat tomorrow. They are totally fucked up.
With regards to the Crooks & Liars video, Jerry Boykin — as the real thing — is almost impossible to watch next to Hayden and Peter Sellers.
