No known links to terrorism. Oh brother.
hmmmmm - muslim/Islam/terror - can’t find the link either :)
bttt!
Yousef Megahed, 21yrs, and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed are of Middle Eastern descent and are not US citizens.
The police find explosive making devices in their car and the FBI says there is no known link to terror.
Sounds like the makings of a fairy tale, or maybe they were just going to ‘pop off a few firecrackers’??
If someone can point me to a source that has details on just what was found, I’d appreciate it.
Until I see just what the extreme danger was, I see this a college kids with fireworks who got pulled over for speeding, and agreed to let LEO search the vehicle.
At least they were not transporting Mooninite LED signs.
Used to be, you could buy the chemicals and cardboard tube and Visco fuse and make your own M80s. Without going into details, you made flash powder and put it in the tube.
BATFE noticed that almost all accidental explosive fatalities involved flash powder, so they declared it to be a High Explosive, now you need a Fed license to make it/ store it/ etc.and in some states you need a pyro license. Photographic or theatrical flash powder can be sold as a binary to be mixed in small quantities. Making your own flash and packing it in your own tubes is a serious crime now!
I checked three of the online shops that sell pyro chemicals and they all warn of heavy penalties for doing what was once commonplace.
So if these guys had a home made M80 or three, they are now in big trouble for illegal explosives manufacture, possession, plus possession of bomb making supplies if they had empty cardboard tube.
So a question for y’all, any Freepers ever make your own crackers? In the past, of course; it’s illegal now.
One of the most recent articles says that the charges are now “possession of an incendiary” or something like that.
The Millennium Bomber, otoh, had urea, ammonium nitrate, RDX, HMX, and a bunch of other things to make a car bomb with a couple hundred pound yield. That was a hazard fer sur.
OK, I was wrong!
They had sugar/ sodium nitrate and a bunch of other stuff including plastic pipe.
Lawyer (inexplicably) say that the two men had a use for the things?
They still could be amateur pyros; I know of more than one instance where a “large homemade device” was unleashed on a patch of desert from a suitable distance.
But in today’s climate even buying 6” pipe nipple and caps can put an anglo under suspicion let alone young ME men driving too fast.
Pyrotechnicians and Bugs fans will both get this, but in different ways- “What a maroon!”
A box of potassium Nitrate
A pound of sugar
A gallon of gasoline
4 model rocket launchers
4 model rocket electrical ignitors
several lengths of PVC pipe including one stuffed with the potassiun nitrate/sugar mixture
This would be a smoke mixture, not a KABOOM Mixture (I thought there was supposed to be a Ka-Boom?)
Thanks for the ping!