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| Evacuations in Brooklyn after explosives found |
| 2008-01-22 |
| Residents of several Brooklyn Heights buildings were evacuated Sunday after police found several explosive devices and a cache of weapons in one apartment. A 31-year-old man who lives on the fourth floor of 58 Remsen St. went to Long Island College Hospital at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday morning with a gunshot wound to the hand. Police said the wound was self-inflicted and possibly caused by a handgun or a similar type of firearm. When police searched the man's home, they found the explosive devices as well as several weapons. The apartment building, as well as neighboring buildings, were evacuated while police conducted their investigation. A police spokesman said it wasn't clear if the explosive devices were active or duds; the bomb squad planned to take them to a police range for further testing. The man was released from the hospital and is being held for questioning. He has not yet been identified. Terrorism has not been ruled out, police said. Officers took several items, including a computer processor and a fascimile machine, out of the apartment building. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #5 Don't know about the name, but George Soros grew up a Hungarian Jew in a family that hated religious Jews and and ran messages for the Nazis rounding up Jews (although he says he didn't know the content of them at the time, when he was 13 yrs old). And 'Soros' wasn't the original name -- his father changed it from Schwarz. So there's some precedent of sorts .... |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-01-22 14:02 |
| #4 A Bulgarian Jew named Ivan Ivanov? Why does that not sound right? That's according to his attorney, BTW. If my client was a Jew-hating synagogue-defacing Bulgar with a thick accent and a walk-up full of pipe bombs, I might make up some crap about him being Jewish himself so as to catch some psychiatric hang-time on the plea bargain. Even if I had to make up a Jewish great-grandmother or something to make it stick. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-01-22 13:46 |
| #3 Linguist, of Jewish descent, in the habit of scrawling antisemitic messages on nearby synagogue and house walls. Bulgarian green card holder, all according to AP link |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-01-22 08:43 |
| #2 Ivan Ivanov? Like John Johnson? Gotta be an alias. |
| Posted by: Fred 2008-01-22 08:36 |
| #1 Officers went to Ivan Ivanov's apartment after he reported being shot on Sunday evening, police said. Investigators, who said the wound to his finger was self-inflicted, discovered what appeared to be a homemade bomb and several other devices and weapons. A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said Ivanov told police he planned to use the explosives on a fishing trip, detonating the devices underwater to bring the fish to the surface. ... Police were also trying to reach Ivanov's roommate, a medical anthropologist and associate professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Residents of the Brooklyn Heights building said the professor was doing research out of the country. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-01-22 07:50 |