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2008-08-22 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2008-08-22 07:38|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 how many billons did we spend on Homeland Security and First responders only to have this level of stupidity be the end result?

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-22 08:42|| 2008-08-22 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 The more important question remains: why else would anyone need a pound of cyanide? The timing of Dirie's visit to Denver, less than two weeks before the Democratic convention, raises an alarming possibility.

Rove or Clinton? hmmm.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-22 09:02|| 2008-08-22 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 A Jihad against Democrats in Denver? A Hitler boycott of Krupp would have been more likely.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-22 09:07|| 2008-08-22 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Jihadists wouldn't do a hit against their cheerleaders and supporters. Maybe it was intended for the McCain office or something.
Either way, I think the whitewashing and burying of the story by the police and officials is disgraceful.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-22 09:51|| 2008-08-22 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 A Jihad against Democrats in Denver? A Hitler boycott of Krupp would have been more likely.
Posted by Besoeker

That was my first thought. The Islamists would much rather see the Dems elected than the Repubs, so this just doesn't make sense from that standpoint.

Posted by DLR 2008-08-22 10:01|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html] 2008-08-22 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I imagine that even if the Denver Police don't know what to do the Secret Service is all over this. It's possible they just don't want to talk about it for security reasons. After all they are the *secret* service and not the CIA.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-22 10:22|| 2008-08-22 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like "scared shitless" aptly describes the situation. Meanwhile, I just heard some snippets from the Mayor of Denver who was trying to smooth over the mini-gestapo he has organized to deal with the rabble rousers they expect. Sounds like his preps make Chicago police look like smallfry. They like horsies out there don't they, OP ? Probably will look like the US Cavalry riding to the rescue. I just hope they use some good, solid pipe, not something that breaks like the current crop of bats in MLB.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-08-22 10:56|| 2008-08-22 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It sounds bizarre and sinister, but sometimes people do weird shit without a plan. Why would a jihadi want to poison Donks? They are their best friends and most useful idiots in the world. It doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-22 12:15|| 2008-08-22 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if this guy was a courier who was supposed to deliver the stuff to someone else.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-22 13:07|| 2008-08-22 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Although suicide is not mentioned in the Kuran, it is anathematized in the Hadith where Muhammad states, "Whosoever shall kill himself shall suffer in the fires of hell." On the other hand, recent legal scholars have argued that suicide in quest of jihad is forgivable.

Posted by Balthazar 2008-08-22 13:10|| 2008-08-22 13:10|| Front Page Top

#11 I possible and not unlikely scenario:

He worked at some point or knows someone who worked at a place that does metal plating. He obtained the substance by stealing it. He didn't "need" a pound of it, he simply had access to a one pound container of it and took it. The material is fairly common in various industrial processes, particularly processes involving plating of things like electronic connector pins and the like. It isn't all that hard to find if you know what you are looking for and where to look for it.

I think he had a pound of it because that is the size container he had access to, not because he went seeking a pound of it.

"Mixed with acid, it becomes significantly more potent as it generates a highly toxic gas"

Which will happen the instant it touches stomach acid.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-08-22 14:36|| 2008-08-22 14:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Why would a jihadi want to poison Donks?

Ultimately, an infidel is an infidel.

Posted by Herman Ebbing3663 2008-08-22 20:43|| 2008-08-22 20:43|| Front Page Top

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