Posted on 12/31/2009 11:23:02 AM PST by Beaten Valve
A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street.
When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad.
They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks.
"It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and fortifications," said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on the North Freeway.
That type of rocket launcher has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The renter of the apartment didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2.
"This is my house," the woman said. " Get away from here. I don't want to talk to nobody."
The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to Nabilaye I. Yansane, someone whom she allowed to store items at her apartment.
Police records show that she didn't want Yansane at her apartment, so she called them.
According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2 about that, either.
"I don't know," she said. "You'll have to ask the police."
Yansane was charged with criminal trespassing and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to three days in jail, which he has already served. No charges related to the rocket launcher or writings were filed.
"Other people could have had access to the apartment, so maybe if a rocket launcher was located there, as is stated in the offense report, maybe it belonged to somebody else," attorney Garl Polland said.
Prosecutors said there are no state charges for having the unarmed launcher or possessing Jihadist writings, unless they contain some type of threat.
The former director of Houston's FBI office said rocket launchers can be dangerous if they're in the wrong hands.
"I don't know any other use for those weapons except in combat," Don Clark said. "I've had them in combat, used them in combat. That's what they are used for."
Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any ties to terrorists or a terrorist network.
But in the right hands, after a coupla' beers . . . .
I think the guy that was re-assigned because he approved the next step in prosecuting the Black Panther voter intimidators, and Nidal Hasan's colleagues who demurred risking their positions to turn Hasan could tell us something about how these unwelcome, big red flags are snuffed out, lest career advancement somehow, curiously end.
It's Political Corruption of every avenue of life. If we don't put a stop to it, it'll only grow to consume us.
HF
Could be using it as a potatoe launcher.......
Plastic tubes sized in diameter and length to fit off-the-shelf rockets, and structured with the additional fitting to aim and fire said rockets, in the hands of Islamic terrorists in Houston scare me, yes.
Plastic tubes of the above sort which come pre-fixed with an non-reloadable rocket, which are now empty, in the apartment of Islamic terrorists in Houston scare me even more, yes.
It's a connect-the-dots kind of thing - you wouldn't understand.
OMG I can't believe we are SOOO stupid~~
Gosh, what a surprise...
Useful!
For making a lamp.
Isn’t that scary. I saw the headlines of the story and went straight to what the guy’s name was.
The guy’s name appears to be a West African name. Guinea. A country that is 85% Muslim. Wonder if he is Muslim? I guess there is a 15% chance he is not.
Truly incredible at the time we live in.
People with names like Nabilaye I. Yansane do not have the right to own this IMO under any circumstances while also possessing some kind of jihadist writings.
Does anyone want to try and buy an airline ticket in this name and see if you can get it?
It's a connect-the-dots kind of thing - you wouldn't understand.
Nabilaye I. Yansane = Ay, by a insane alien
I found a spent LAW tube in somebody’s curbside garbage when I was a kid in the late ‘60’s. It was cool to play army with. I have seen them reloaded with sub-caliber rounds for training, though. I don’t know if you can reload them with the primary round. I can’t see why not, though.
It doesn't really matter, since the TSA doesn't/can't read the list anyway.
“The former director of Houston’s FBI office said rocket launchers can be dangerous if they’re in the wrong hands.”
-—wow...standards have sure been tough for FBI agents ever since Hoover died....dah.....dah....dah....dah....
Someone found one of them in the woods a little while back didn’t they?
OThuga, the Destroyer In Chief is still trying to shove all our Republic further down Alice’s rabbit hole.
I saw one of those in an antique shop in Saginaw, Michigan less than a year ago. It's a dadgum fiberglass tube with a couple of springs and a peep sight. Guess I should have alerted the feds.
ooo...if I wasn’t married...or toodamold....
But first you have to find the right shelf.
The sub-caliber device used in the LAW in basic training units at Fort Jackson, SC during February and March 1986 (I’m that specific just in case it was something else just before, just after or somewhere else) was basically an insert containing a reloadable single-shot gun firing 9mm pistol ammunition and rigged so its safety and trigger were those used on a live LAW.
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