Posted on 04/16/2013 9:33:09 AM PDT by kristinn
A person briefed on the Boston Marathon investigation says the explosives were in 6-liter pressure cookers and placed in black duffel bags.
The person says the explosives were placed on the ground and contained shards of metal, nails and ball bearings.
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Someone who comes from the Muslim world is more familiar with pressure cookers. They are widely used to conserve fuel in developing countries that cook single pot foods.
They aren’t that popular in the US and sales should be easy to trace.
Like my mother in law’s cooking (all done in pressure cookers and results looks like shrapnel).
If theyr’e saying they know what they looked like (discarded property), then they have a video. Cross your fingers. Cameras all over the place.
Pretty commonly used at high altitudes of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Flashback:
Accused Fort Hood plotter got bombmaking recipe from Al Qaeda
“Abdo admitted that he planned to assemble two bombs in the hotel room using gun powder and shrapnel packed into pressure cookers to detonate inside an unspecified restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood,” the affidavit says.
The plot was uncovered by the suspicions and quick thinking of a clerk and manager at the Guns Galore gun shop near the military base. Abdo reportedly asked the manager what “smokeless powder” was. The soldier then purchased six, one-pound containers of smokeless powder.
Someone claimed that the odor was similar to fireworks.
Yes, it could have that benefit too. I was just pointing our or amplifying part of the story, that a "low explosive" inside a pressure cooker will make an explosion. That same "low explosive" out in the open will just burn.
-- Were there any used for a food stop? --
Unlikely.
But, thinking aout it, I know of an old fast food place that used pressure cookers. Chicken that was "broasted." I don't remember the name of the fast food chain.
No amount of tax cuts would have prevented pressure cooker purchases.
That is exactly what I was thinking. It looked exactly like a black powder bomb. Tons of white smoke and a relatively small fireball.
They used pressure cookers for our local chili cookoff.
There are people on this very forum who have more than one pressure cooker. These are called “arsenals” in the New York Times.
At first i was going to reply, then realized you were being sarcastic ;-) Damn time consuming to can a few quarts of veggies in a one liter cooker!
The Pressure Cooker Police will soon be breaking down my front door at Oh Dark Thirty!!!!
Fireworks -> black powder (sulphur in the smell)
Flashback:
More Fort Hood Plotter Details Emerge: Built Al Qaeda Pressure Cooker Bombs
Authorities told FOX News Channel Saturday that in a search of Abdo’s hotel room they found 18lbs (8kg) of sugar, a pressure cooker and smokeless gunpowder that was to be used as the trigger. He had enough bomb making materials for two bombs, they said.
“He was all ready to go,” one law enforcement source said.
The bomb making materials and methodology was “straight out of Inspire magazine and an al Qaeda explosives course manual,” one counterterrorism source said, referring to the terrorist organization’s English-language magazine.
A second source confirmed that two additional Fort Hood soldiers have been questioned about Abdo.
According to the criminal complaint, Abdo admitted to the arresting officers that he intended to conduct an attack in Killeen and Fort Hood and that he had explosives in his backpack and his hotel room.
It was revealed last week that police found a gun, ammunition, two clocks, and two spools of auto wire in Abdo’s backpack, along with an article entitled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom.”
Have any leftovers? Chili, I mean, not pressure cookers.
Sugar with smokeless gunpowder trigger.
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