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.
Pretty commonly used at high altitudes of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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.”
None of my three pressure cookers were bought retail. Sadly, they were lost last week in a boating accident.