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4 arrested in connection with the theft of 400 pounds of explosives. Details soon.
MSNBC ^
Posted on 12/23/2005 6:49:19 PM PST by precedence
Nothing more...just posted on the MSNBC website.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atf; blastingcaps; brown; c4; cherryenineering; colorado; davidbrown; detasheet; durango; explosives; lesbrown; missingexplosives; newmexico; sandia; sandialabs; stolenexplosives
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To: Boundless
I'm guessing they were caught because tehy were trying to sell it.
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:07:30 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: mware
Regardless of their last names, if the authorities were led to them by means of wiretaps, then I say, along with the 'RATS and the NY Slimes: LET THEM GO FREE !!!
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:08:45 PM PST
by
Salvey
(ancest)
To: Shermy
>Probably something like John Running Bear, Joe Yellow Feather.<<
Anymore a surname may or may not indicate one's national origin. The name Richardson was one which was found extensively in and around my NC ancestral English/Scottish families in the 1700s. Not so in New Mexico where our Governor Richardson considers himself to be Hispanic.
Muleteam1
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:09:19 PM PST
by
Muleteam1
(Billy the Kid would roll over in his grave, if we knew where he was buried.)
To: manwiththehands
Note to self: check back when this is a story.
Actually, this is a story. It was all over the news. The stole 400 pounds of c-4 explosive, etc. That is a significant amount that could level a fair sized building. That they now have culprits in custody is good news.
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:09:21 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: precedence
Is this the part of the Patriot Act that doesn't work? :)
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:09:31 PM PST
by
LaineyDee
(Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
To: SpottedBeaver
Nowhere near Pismo Beach.
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:11:42 PM PST
by
JellyJam
(Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: razorback-bert
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:13:28 PM PST
by
magslinger
(At the end of the day the only truly educated people are autodidacts.)
To: CedarDave; Squantos; Tijeras_Slim
To: mware
Anyone want to guess the origins of their last names????
Pick any rural names, it doesn't matter. If you're implying that they're of Middle Eastern heritage, I'd have to say you're giving far too much credit.
I mean, look at the history of terrorism involved - blind luck plays a pretty important role. That those explosives might have been sold to someone from the Middle East bent on terrorism is far, far more likely than they doing it themselves.
Plus the obscurity of the site lends towards someone on the local side pointing it out, and probably Internet buddies who actually committed the crime.
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:14:19 PM PST
by
kingu
To: mware
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:14:54 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: mware
Whoa, slow down hoss. Lot's of reasons to want explosives. Plenty of industrial, construction and mining reasons. They are very expensive and highly regulated. Therefore some will steal. However explosives are not inherently evil, neither are guns, rat poison or claw hammers.
To: TomGuy
Thefts of and missing explosives are common; these stories were never national news before 9/11, however.
To: TomGuy
20,000 feet of det cord???
Yikes!!!!
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:17:28 PM PST
by
djf
(Bush wants to make Iraq like America. Solution: Send all illegal immigrants to Iraq!)
To: Boundless
Don't bet too much on it. My first thought when the heist was reported was "inside job" (ex-employee, ex-customer, ex-supplier, etc.)
It couldn't be both ROP and an inside job?
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:18:05 PM PST
by
magslinger
(At the end of the day the only truly educated people are autodidacts.)
To: DBrow; keithtoo
> It does not need to be terrorism, ...
In fact, the DHS and FBI ruled out terrorism
just before the heist happened :-)
To: precedence
Anyone want to guess the origins of their last names????My guess? Bloomfield, NM - oil and gas workers-roughnecks-stolen for profit and/or mischief-not terrorism, other than the kind generally promulgated by rednecks of all sorts.
To: Boundless
...just before the heist happened :-) yep, pretty quick to say there is no terrorist connection
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:22:07 PM PST
by
jer33 3
To: precedence
How long we gonna have to wait to hear these names? If they are not juveniles, do the laws have any grounds to hold back the names which, seems to me, should be public record???
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posted on
12/23/2005 7:22:09 PM PST
by
LK44-40
To: elkfersupper
Oh yeah, forgot to mention the San Juan Basin Gas Field as well. Lot's of good uses their producing/enhancing wells. Good thinkin sir.
To: magslinger
> It couldn't be both ROP and an inside job?
Yep, but had it been, my guess is they would have been
caught quicker, because the FBI and BAFTE probably
focused on those persons of interest, giving them
priority over white sups, ordinary crooks, outlaw
miners and out-of-control hobbyists.
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