Posted on 12/31/2011 1:35:20 PM PST by Just4Him
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said.
The man was stopped at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport about 9 a.m. and taken into custody by the FBI, they said.
FBI spokesman Mike Martinez declined to say whether the man was in military uniform or how many explosives were found in the bag. He said he did not know where the man was being held, saying he was at either the airport or at the FBI office in Midland.
City of Midland spokeswoman Tasa Watts said she had no information on the suspect but the explosives were wrapped in military-grade wrapping. She said the specific grade won't be known until the explosives are tested.
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Post bail yet?
I prefer the older approach: you got jihadic Moose? We got kick-@$$ and posses! Moose probing the edges would find it way too uncomfortable to live here. Those satisfied with a westernized life might get some funny looks but otherwise be left alone.
I never did mind going to get cigarettes, or dynamite when I was in high school nearly as much as when I had to make a speed run to get psycho-bitch a bag of Kotex when she forgot them and suddenly had to have them.
We still have the Ag Dept instructions for making
Ammonia and diesel explosives for use around the farm.
It was a different world back then from today...
**mn,liberalism..**mn Walter Cronkite..etc,etc,
Bizarrified musings which were called news. So much so that when something really noteworthy actually happened, the audience was too jaded to care.
Hence - no more. Can't tell you why we won't be able to buy incandescent light bulbs soon or why we can't move on our highways without encountering some sort of roadblock, but it is the same thing.
....a few different packaging 1/4 - 1 1/2
If Holder’s DOJ gets ahold of those explosives, they’ll funnel it into Mexico, and throw the soldier in prison, of course.
I’m 100% with you on that, brother. They know it’s coming, they sell that stuff by the case. I’m willing to pay for it by the case. That is a command and control tactic.
People must have had some pretty powerful monkeys on their backs to want something made out of match heads and cold tablets, and certainly that’s the point of stupidity to me — but that said the profit angle on the ban is such that production just went to Mexico without hardly one hiccup in the supply in the States.
Smart kids would keep a pack or two stashed in their closet. At least until THAT is banned too.
Must be a Jersey thing. When I was a kid my dad sent me down to the corner store to get his smokes. This went on for many years....
Back in my day, you would leave your rifle in your unlocked, windows rolled down vehicle in the school parking lot and all the principal would say is, “nice gun there.” You could have a knife in your boot and a can of snuff in your back pocket and suspension never crossed anyone’s mind. That was also in the days when a little old lady never worried about being strip searched and detained for bringing her knitting along for the flight.
The president doesn’t live here, but his MIL does.
The airport is 10 miles from Midland. Crazy that a service
man would do a thing like this! What was he thinking!
It did? There's a Tru Value Hardware store here in town that will sell you all you need.
Oh, you’re in Sane Carolina. Maybe it’s an Ill Noise thing.
Principal was probably also the local Scoutmaster.
Sorry could not resist adding my own 2 cents and how I had heard how that ol' saying goes.
“... Jamie Gorelick is on her way there to help uncover the plot.”
LOL. She couldn’t uncover her butt with both hands and directions!
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