Bomb-making factory found in Brooklyn apartment of Columbia professor

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/01/21/2008-01-21_bombmaking_factory_found_in_brooklyn_apa-3.html ^

[stickman20089]

Police stumbled upon a bomb-making factory Sunday in the home of a Columbia professor who specializes in the spread of infectious disease - and are investigating whether he and his roommate have terror ties. Cops evacuated the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood around the Remsen St. home of Michael Clatts, a medical anthropologist, after finding seven pipe bombs fitted with fuses in his flat, police sources said. The frightening cache was discovered almost by accident - Ivaylo Ivanov, the man living with Clatts, accidentally shot off the tip of his left index finger and sought police help in the street about 1:15 a.m. When investigators went to the 37-year-old Ivanov's apartment, they found the bombs, already capped on both ends and filled with powder. One of the pipe bombs was inserted into a Nerf football, cops said.

[stocksthatgoup]

Drug Treatment Best Hope for Meth-Using Men Who Have Sex With Men

November 1, 2002 New unpublished and published research shows that gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine have a greater HIV prevalence than men who have sex with men (MSM) who do not use the drug, leading some researchers to speculate that methamphetamine use could result in a resurgence of the virus among MSM. The research highlights the need for targeted substance abuse programs directed toward MSM who use methamphetamine. "I see HIV in my community, and it's in drug users and drug-using gay men," said Steve Shoptaw, Ph.D., principle investigator with Friends Research Institute in Los Angeles.

"If 62 percent of the guys are infected by the time they show up for [substance abuse] treatment, then that tells me there's a high concentration of the virus where these guys interact," Shoptaw said. Drug treatment significantly reduces HIV-related sexual risk behaviors immediately, and those reductions are observed at a one-year follow-up, according to Shoptaw's most recent research.

"We see, on average, men ... reporting three or four instances of unprotected anal receptive intercourse with someone other than their primary partner at baseline in 30 days prior to their first visit," said Shoptaw. "After treatment, at one-year follow-up, it's [less than] one instance." "At baseline, there were nine to 10 average days out of 30 of meth use, and [after treatment] at a 52-week follow-up, there were three to 3.5 days." One of the first HIV prevention strategies for some MSM populations may be to encourage men to enter substance abuse treatment.

"Clinicians need to be aware of symptoms of substance abuse," said Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at New York University and co-director of the Center for HIV Educational Studies & Training in New York City. Clinicians working with MSM patients need to deal with substance abuse early, as methamphetamine typically begins as weekend party behavior, but eventually spreads to everyday use and addiction, said Halkitis. He recommends substance abuse treatment with cognitive therapy programs that use motivational interviewing to motivate people to think about and change their behavior. He advocates abstinence from the drug because "eventually dependence is not going to be eliminated with a harm reduction approach."

While not every expert on methamphetamine use among MSM would agree that total drug abstinence is the only solution, there is some agreement that some substance abuse treatment is necessary as part of an HIV prevention program. "Current [substance abuse] treatment models don't have good efficacy and come at a big expense at a clinical level," said Michael Clatts, PhD, medical anthropologist and associate professor of public health at Columbia University. "They break down people and try to rebuild them." For this reason, Clatts said he would recommend putting a public health emphasis on harm reduction education.

[Cicero]

A gay terrorist?

[mylife]

the pipe bombs were for fishing

Wow! you can use pipe bombs for fishing in NYC?!!

We cant even use YoYo's in Tx

[muawiyah]

Clatts~mistake in my earlier post on spelling the name. This Clatts guy is big gumbahs (according to other Columbia information) with a Zeil Rosenberg. He seems to have his own associations with Barbara Hatch Rosenberg (the old leftwingtard gal who went after Dr. Hatfill) in other associations and foundations.

So, there's a link (meaningful or not) between Hatfill's accuser and a guy who has an apartment full of pipebombs.

Bing Bing Bing Bong Bing Bing Bong!!!!!!

[lowbridge]

bump

[Calvin Locke]

I was just wondering...does Dustin Hoffman own a place in or next door to the building????

[Paleo Conservative]

Just one professor?

[mylife]

“Ivanov, who his lawyer says is Jewish, claims that the pipe bombs were for fishing

[yield 2 the right]

Boom 101!!!

[Cicero]

The NY Times has just run an article on his gay partner, the guy who shot his finger off:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/nyregion/22arrest.html?em&ex=1201150800&en=bbb59d8572e3caf9&ei=5087%0A

It seems that he is behind a spree of antisemitic incidents in Brooklyn Heights, although it also turns out that he himself is Jewish.

Sounds like a coven of gay, leftist self-haters.

[weegee]

Isn’t there a website or two that caches the content of the internet?

[weegee]

Nerf football is made of sponge, safe to touch. Not like evil pigskin of old.

[mylife]

Muslim safe!

[null and void]

The Wayback Machine is one

http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html

[Rome2000]

Sounds like a coven of gay, leftist self-haters.

Yes, that describes NYC to a tee.

[Rennes Templar]

“Ivaylo Ivanov, the man living with Clatts, accidentally shot off the tip of his left index finger and sought police help in the street about 1:15 a.m.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for that link.. wow!

About the Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

An insomniac’s wish come true. ;-)

[geopyg]

I always wondered how one makes fish Kosher!?

Blow the hell out of them!

[Agent Smith]

More fun and games from the good doctor. Sounds like a pretty exciting read.

http://books.google.com/books?id=usruybRjfMUC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=michael+c+clatts+phd&source=web&ots=IzO4AkD_mH&sig=H84NJqEfbMO7DimRVLvIgXH7OK4

[stocksthatgoup]

Michael C. Clatts, PhD is a medical anthropologist whose principal area of interest is in community epidemiology and the development of community-based public health programs. Dr. Clatts is a Principal Investigator within the Institute for International Research on Youth at Risk at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. He is also a Professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico and an Associate Professor in the Department of Socio Medical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. Clatts was one of the first social scientists involved in HIV research, having participated in the first NIH epidemiological study of risk factors of AIDS in 1981. Subsequently, he has conducted a number of epidemiological studies related to HIV risk in NYC. These include two NIDA-funded studies of out-of-treatment drug injectors; a CDC-funded evaluation of AIDS outreach and prevention services for homeless youth; an AMFAR-funded study of homeless youths’ risk from the NYC street economy; a HOPWA-funded needs assessment of HIV-related services for homeless youth in NYC; and, a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among young men who have sex with men. Dr. Clatts serves as the Principal Investigator on three NIDA-funded studies which combine comparative ethnographic methods and laboratory virology in the study of HIV transmission in high risk drug injection practices, including heroin, crack-cocaine, and methamphetamines. Currently, Dr. Clatts is leading a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among young injectors in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.