White guys can't make good bombs.
Essentially, all the good bomb makers use cell phones and some sort of military explosives. This bomb had neither. He sounded half taunting and half disappointed that this thing didn't kill people.
So, he concluded, that this has to be the work of some sort of "right-wing group." The heroes would have gotten this right.
That's the narrative on MSNBC right now - Muslims make better bombs, the crappy ones come from right wingers.
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If we made a bomb, it would be composed of tea bags, not fireworks.
I knew that would be the spin on this incident dictated from the White House to the sycophant MSM.
This bomb was clearly the work of MSNBC staffers.
That Evan Coleman's historical memory in non-existent. Muslims were the perps in at least three planned terrorist events I can specifically recall where the bombs fortunately failed. In the past year alone, we've had the Detroit airplane underwear bomber (who supposedly was a chemical engineer) and the Arab doctors at a Scotch airport. And back a few years, there was the Muslim "shoe bomber" who failed in his efforts to blow up a plane headed from London to the US. I'm sure that there were many other flawed bombing attempts by Muslims over the last several decades, some of which our GIs in Iraq can attest to.
That’s not what your link shows. Link please.
White guys can't make good bombs.
Now they have trotted out Maj. Hassan as the face of the "radicalized" American (because of Bush's war, we are to understand), but urge not to get all Islamophobic.
Meanwhile, the alQaeda affiliate out of Paki has claimed responsibility. DHS says there is no evidence their claim is true.
W. T. F.
I need to take a shower now. Afterward, I'll go look at the London papers and Moscow Times and see if I can figure out what is really going on</rant>.
(JP, whatcha got?)
MSNBC Terrorism expert Evan Coleman: “This is very crude. The potential culprits — it’s a wide range, I think it’s fair to say that the presumption is that it’s more like to be a homegrown group. Whether it’s al-Qeada group, a right-wing group, whether it’s somebody else.”
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Evan F. Kohlmann (b. 1979 (age 30–31)) is an American terrorism consultant who has worked for the FBI and other governmental organizations.
He is a contributor to the Counterterrorism Blog, a senior investigator with The Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation, and a terrorism analyst for NBC News.
He attended the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he studied under Mamoun Fandy. Kohlmann entered the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the fall of 2001, a few weeks before al-Qaeda’s attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
Kohlmann worked as an intern at The Investigative Project, a Washington, DC, counter-terrorism think-tank.
Kohlmann produced “The Al Qaida Plan” to be used as evidence during the Guantanamo Military Commissions. Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald reported that the “The Al Qaida Plan” was modeled after a film made for the Nuremberg tribunals called “The Nazi Plan”
Kohlmann has served frequently as an expert witness for the prosecution in terrorism trials.
When the Columbine school shootings happened you had someone -- I think from the SPLC -- going on and on and on about how the shooters had to be neo-Nazis since the killings happened on Hitler's birthday.
That didn't turn out to be quite right and the "expert" didn't have any real evidence for it, but his reputation, such as it was, probably didn't suffer from getting things wrong.
In this case, Coleman's biggest mistake was thinking that Islamicist terrorists are always going to be part of a well-trained, well-organized, well-financed groups.
Nowadays there are enough freelancers and amateur enthusiasts that you can expect a wide variety of expertise among al Qaeda supporters.
