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To: castowell

Unibomber=Unabomber. I should get some coffee!


20 posted on 06/22/2010 7:36:56 AM PDT by castowell ("I'm 95% cured" - BHO, 6/23/09)
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To: castowell
Unibomber=Unabomber. I should get some coffee!

You made me look that one up. Turns out Unabomber is derived from university and airline bomber. I had forgotten the airline part. On 15 November 1979, he placed a bomb in the baggage compartment of AA Flight 444. It fizzled, but 12 of 78 passengers needed treatment for smoke inhalation. The FBI believes it would have taken down the airplane, had the detonator worked properly.

38 posted on 06/22/2010 8:11:37 AM PDT by cynwoody
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