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| Pipe bomb parts found in Florida airport bag |
| 2008-04-02 |
| Components that potentially could be made into a pipe bomb were found in the luggage of a man preparing to fly from Orlando International Airport to Jamaica on Tuesday, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper said. The Transportation Security Administration confirmed only that "suspicious" items were found in a search of the man's luggage. FBI spokesman David Couvertier, whose agency is handling the case, said the items "generated a high level of concern," but he declined to confirm the newspaper's report that the suspicious items included "unassembled pipes with end caps, metal ball bearings and other potentially explosive materials." The man, whose name was not released, was taken into custody by Orlando Police and turned over to the FBI, according to police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones. He was ticketed on an Air Jamaica flight scheduled to leave Orlando for Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Tuesday afternoon. According to the TSA, an officer keeping watch for suspicious behavior singled out the man for luggage inspection. Airport spokeswoman Carolyn Fennell said the man was preparing to check the luggage when he was detained. Passengers were evacuated from a section of the airport terminal around the Air Jamaica, Air Canada and Air Frontier ticket counters, and 11 flights were delayed, Fennell said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 I just heard a bit ago that his bomb kit included a bunch of BBs. If true, it makes me wonder why he's going to detonate a pipe bomb in a stump with a bunch of BBs. Could hurt one of the neighbors. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-04-02 23:20 |
| #15 I was just making the connection of a radical imam in Jamaica that could be the source of radical inspiration. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122 2008-04-02 16:14 |
| #14 TB, can you verify Kevin Brown has links is the imam responsible with London's 7/7 massacre and the shoe bomber? I got the info from a RB archived article from April 2007. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122 2008-04-02 16:12 |
| #13 Well then he can just buy these common materials in Jamaica then, can't he. Bull$hit. He's going down. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-04-02 15:50 |
| #12 Well looky here via Fox news: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Jamaican man accused of trying to bring pipe bomb-making materials onto an airplane told the FBI he wanted to show friends in his home country how to build explosives like he saw in Iraq, according to documents released Wednesday. The FBI was still trying to determine whether Kevin Brown was ever in Iraq and noted he first told officials he wanted to detonate the materials on a tree stump in Jamaica. |
| Posted by: Jererong Lumplump4896 2008-04-02 14:29 |
| #11 It's difficult to get quality bong propellant anyway. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-04-02 14:06 |
| #10 The Huge Conventions of NineTeenElevenTeen prohibit the use of Bongs as a Weapon of War. As such they are free from invasive inspekshun and purdy much cool |
| Posted by: Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-04-02 12:46 |
| #9 'Bomber' on board - Jamaican arrested in Florida with explosive materials The Gleaner has learned that the man, 33-year-old United States green-card holder, Jamaican-born Kevin Brown, of Ocala, Florida, was about to board Air Jamaica flight 080 from Orlando to Montego Bay. Brown is said to be married to a serving member of the American army. TB, can you verify Kevin Brown has links is the imam responsible with London's 7/7 massacre and the shoe bomber? While brown has the shaved head and beard uniform of a radical muslim, I can't find an article linking him (yet) with Abdullah Faisal U.S. Based Revolution Muslim Website Spreading Messages of Hate On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of startling images appear: — The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side; — Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead :) "; — Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; — The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the murder of non-Muslims. Even more surprising is that RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York City Borough of Queens. And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, all the authorities can do is watch. Formerly known as Joseph Cohen, al-Khattab is an American-born Jew who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox Rabbinical school, which he later described as a “racist cult.” The 39-year-old New York taxi driver launched RevolutionMuslim.com with the mission of “preserving Islamic culture,” “calling people to the oneness of God” and asking them to “support the beloved Sheik Abdullah Faisal, who’s preaching the religion of Islam and serving as a spiritual guide.” In 2003 Faisal was convicted in the U.K. for spreading messages of racial hatred and urging his followers to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. In sermon recordings played at his trial, Faisal called on young, impressionable Muslims to use chemical weapons to “exterminate unbelievers” and “cut the throat of the Kaffars [nonbelievers] with [a] machete.” Authorities believe Faisal’s sermons have influenced 2005 London transport bomber Germaine Lindsay and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who attended mosques where Faisal preached. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-04-02 11:44 |
| #8 Maybe it was some kind of old or new-fangled Jamaican bong. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-04-02 11:37 |
| #7 You need a manual to assemble a pipe bomb? These are fairly easy to make. They are also easy to detect going through airport security. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-04-02 11:36 |
| #6 Name is Kevin Brown, and a native Jamaican. Also had a manual on how to assemble a bomb. But more suspicious is this deported Jamaican imam with links to the 7/7 bombings, Richard Reid, and the radical British Mosque (article from 4-07) : JAILED preacher who inspired one of the 7/7 bombers has sparked rage by using human rights laws to try to stay here. Abdullah El-Faisal was jailed for nine years in March 2003 for inciting murder in vile rants but he is due to be released this month. The Home Office plans to deport him to his native Jamaica but the Muslim convert, with links to Al Qaeda...El-Faisal’s twisted preachings were delivered at Brixton mosque, where shoe bomber Richard Reid is said to have met Zacharias Moussaoui – the so-called 20th hijacker in the 9/11 attacks....It emerged last year that El-Faisal was also believed to have influenced 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay...The twice-married father-of-four urged his followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans and distributed tape recordings with titles including “No Peace With The Jews” and “Declaration Of War”. He called for non-believers to be killed with chemical and nuclear weapons, guns and bombs while dismissing the killing of women and children in terror atrocities as “collateral damage”. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122 2008-04-02 11:11 |
| #5 Of course the Shoe Bomber was part-Jamaican in background. Sigh. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-04-02 10:36 |
| #4 I lived in LA during the Crips-Bloods gangwar. It was teatime with Grandma compared to the brutality that the Jamaican gangs brought when they moved into the drug trade in the US. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-04-02 10:23 |
| #3 Ya got that right, Pappy. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been. And one of the creepiest... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-02 10:10 |
| #2 There's plenty gangs and crime in Jamaica, NS. Not all violence is muslim-related. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-04-02 09:11 |
| #1 The man, whose name was not released Because there is no link between this incident and Islamist terrorism, no doubt. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-04-02 07:15 |