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Afghanistan
al Qaeda bomb-factory video
2010-05-16
Also a good article on how amateurish the Time Square bomber was.
The thought that occurs is that it's a good thing most wannabes have little to no technical background. Faisel the Fizzlebomber had an MBA, a degree designed to get the student away from hands-on work.
Posted by:phil_b

#3  Barbara, Daddy was in the rapid exothermic reactions department of the Haganah until there was an earlier than expected reaction. After that they sent him to get a PhD.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-05-16 23:32  

#2  "an MBA, a degree designed to get the student away from hands-on work"

Very accurate description of an MBA, tw!

Which is why, once I took all the courses that actually interested me, I quit night grad school (my company was paying the tuition).
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-05-16 21:16  

#1  Suppose, for supposin's sake, that the firecrackers had ruptured just one gas tank. Suppose it was one of the first firecrackers to go off.
Some gasoline would start burning. Let's presume it did not explode, or at least not then. What happens when the gasoline fire gets going and the propane tanks start heating up.
Are they strong enough to keep from rupturing?
Not saying this was the guy's plan, but it seems as if it might have worked, had the gasoline been ignited.
I think if he'd had M80s and tamped them, he might have had better luck. See, if you don't grow up as an American kid, you have all kinds of disadvantages.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2010-05-16 20:21  

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