Man Suspected of Carrying Ammonium Nitrate in Backpack Taken into Custody near Pentagon

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[TennesseeGirl]

It's a potent oxidizing agent.

We had the same thought. The news reports I heard today were downplaying the ammonium nitrate, and the news reader made it sound so innocuous. I was not reassured.

[TennesseeGirl]

He seems like a small time criminal, and there were no explosives in his backpack. He wasn’t a threat to the Pentagon.

Right. Just like the folks in the federal bldg in Oklahoma City. Tim McVeigh was just fertilizing. I'm sure Melaku was just putting a little fertilizer down on the gravesites in Arlington Cemetery after hours.

[Mr. Wright]

Yonathan Melaku?

Will Hussein Obama call for a “Beer Summit”?

[piasa]

Update:

Reservist Charged in ’10 Building Shootings [Yonathan Melaku]
NY Times ^ | June 23, 2011 | Sean Collins Walsh Posted on
http:/www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/us/24reservist.html
Friday, June 24, 2011 6:55:57 PM by La Enchiladita