[Al Arabiya] A one-legged Chechen boxer injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police said Friday.
Best kind of red-wire, green-wire incident, since the boomer is maimed for life. Likely experiences phantom limb pain. That can be excruciating. So I'm told. | The device went off as the man was assembling it in a hotel bathroom on Sept. 10, said Svend Foldager, a police spokesman. The suspect received cuts to his face and no one else was injured.
Deep cuts to his face. He's no longer attractive even to the 72 virgins. And he can't dance ... | "We're dealing with a letter bomb. The bomb was completed. Apparently it was of a low-technology type, with a highly explosive substance inside," Foldager told reporters in Copenhagen. "It was filled with small steel pellets to create injuries."
How many are still lodged in his face? | He said the device contained triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which served as a detonator for the bombs used by terrorists in the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 people.
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