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Capitol Police destroy pressure cooker in suspicious car on National Mall
CNN ^ | May 25, 2015

Posted on 05/25/2015 9:20:57 AM PDT by nuconvert

A pressure cooker in a parked car on the National Mall aroused the suspicions of Capitol Police in Washington on Sunday, and they called out a bomb squad to do away with it.

Officers spotted the car on routine patrol and found it suspicious. Inside were the pressure cooker and what appeared to be a propane tank. Officers smelled gasoline, U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement.

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The search and investigation turned up nothing harmful, USPC said. The driver was arrested and charged with driving with a revoked license.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nationalmall; washingtondc
hmmm ...
1 posted on 05/25/2015 9:20:57 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

And what was the name of the driver who was arrested??? Mohamed Abdul al-something???? Or was it Ed Haskel??? Why won’t they tell us the name of the culprit?

And why was he arrested only for an expired license? There are no other charges for having a dangerous explosive device in a public place??? What the heck??

There’s got to me more to the story.


2 posted on 05/25/2015 9:25:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

where is Obamas Aunt??


3 posted on 05/25/2015 9:26:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

the driver’s name was mentioned in another article. It didn’t seem to be a Muslim name. I guess we’ll have to wait for more details


4 posted on 05/25/2015 9:31:33 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: nuconvert

Making Aunt Bee’s famous pickles no doubt!


5 posted on 05/25/2015 9:32:15 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: nuconvert
The search and investigation turned up nothing harmful,

Maybe it was really a rice cooker and what "appeared to be a propane tank" wasn't. Then they arrested the driver to make it look good after the bomb squad destroyed his car.

6 posted on 05/25/2015 9:33:01 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"the vehicle’s owner was found and identified as Israel Shimeles of the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia. Shimeles was arrested and charged with “operating after revocation”."

I guess they got the Obama administration's memo about Israel. (Meanwhile, there are countless Crown Victoria taxicabs being driven around Washington by guys wearing head scarves.)

7 posted on 05/25/2015 9:35:58 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: dp0622

The owner of the vehicle was located and identified as Israel Shimeles of Alexandria, Virginia. Shimeles was arrested and charged with Operating After Revocation,


8 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:30 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
And what was the name of the driver who was arrested

Israel. Obvious mideastern ties.

9 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:33 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Perhaps it was Martha Stewart or Paula Dean...


10 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:37 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: nuconvert
"The search and investigation turned up nothing harmful, USPC said."

Well, that should be no surprise. Don't most people keep a propane tank handy while using a pressure cooker?

12 posted on 05/25/2015 9:41:59 AM PDT by Baynative (For someone to get something without paying for it, someone else must pay for it without getting it.)
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To: wideminded
Maybe it was really a rice cooker and what "appeared to be a propane tank" wasn't. Then they arrested the driver to make it look good after the bomb squad destroyed his car.

The car looks to be an old Volvo station wagon -- so everything would have been in plain sight in the wayback. The pressure cooker and propane tank were supposed to be for a food truck. (Based on the available information, I'd suspect that Israel Shimeles might own a food truck and that DC suspended his driver's license because of unpaid parking tickets. But that's just my wild guess.)


13 posted on 05/25/2015 9:51:16 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Sooth2222

Orothdox Jews use cookers on their Sabbath.


14 posted on 05/25/2015 10:04:02 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: nuconvert

Rumspringa.


15 posted on 05/25/2015 10:25:16 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Dr. Ursus

One hopes this “Israel” declares legal war on the Armed & Rangerous, and any and all involved in this “incident”.

Everything from suppression of his Constitution protected religious activities(assuming his being Orthodox), property damages, ad nauseam.

All these clowns had to do was run the tag and the name should have been enough, Jewish terrorists being as rare as they are in America.

‘Course, it could have been a casee of a sooper, dooper, extra secret, Muslim terrorist in deep cover!


16 posted on 05/25/2015 11:02:39 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
where is Obamas Aunt??

There must be hundreds. Zetuni is taking a dirt nap.

17 posted on 05/25/2015 11:07:35 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: nuconvert

Driver is lucky the story isn’t about how many shots it took to kill him. That seems to be SOP these days.


18 posted on 05/25/2015 11:14:32 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: Dr. Ursus
"Shimeles may have had a perfectly legitimate reason for having a pressure cooker: Fox News reports that sources close to the investigation say that he either operated, or was intending to operate, a food truck, and that the pressure cooker was part of his equipment."


19 posted on 05/25/2015 11:29:44 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
I wonder if this is one of the family?




20 posted on 05/25/2015 11:42:06 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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