Posted on 03/07/2014 3:33:23 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A Georgia Tech graduate student who set himself on fire while apparently experimenting with bomb-making elements in his apartment last month has died, officials confirmed Thursday.
Saamer Akhshabi, an Iranian national, had burns on more than 90 percent of his body following the February 4 explosion in his apartment near the university, where Akhshabi was studying in the College of Computing.
Law enforcement officials investigating the case found in Akhshabi's apartment an apparent Molotov Cocktail and multiple plastic bottles filled with gasoline and kerosene.
Following the explosion, 26-year-old Akhshabi was taken in critical condition to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where he died on Thursday.
'We have worked closely with other law enforcement agencies during the investigation of this tragic incident,' Robert Connolly, interim police chief for Georgia Tech, said in an emailed statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 'The FBI has relayed that, to date, they have not developed any information or evidence indicating criminal intent in this investigation.'
Law enforcement officials determined that Akhshabi wasn't a threat to the Georgia Tech community, but it remains unclear what he planned to do with the explosive material found in his apartment.
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Those burns are nothing compared to the eternal fire that awaits him.
Did not think of that but it does make sense. Still can’t imagine it as a good way to go, hoisted on one’s own flaming petard so to speak.
“but it remains unclear what he planned to do with the explosive material found in his apartment.”
Gee give me a minute here. Wait, blow up something?
Maybe they gave him a mirror.
Hold my Koran while I do this.........
Good riddance. May many of his fellow terrorists experience his fate.
Napolitano: The system worked.
Darwin Award candidate
Another “I said ‘Bud Light’” ping.
Thanks afraidfortherepublic.
Another “I said ‘Bud Light’” ping.
Thanks afraidfortherepublic.
For comparison, how much does a trial cost? How much is each appeal? How much does it cost to house a prisoner for a year?
I still think the taxpayers came out ahead.
Answer your own questions, come up with a figure. Oh and trial doesn't cost anything because the cost is a sunk cost already. Likewise appeals. The judges with their fat salaries, the court infrastructure, and judicial system employees are being paid for by the taxpayers regardless. There isn't any incremental cost associated with it. Incarceration is a real cost.
Just because the lawyers, judges, clerks, etc., are already on staff and paid does not make the cost of trial negligible. Anything those people do in conjunction with a trial is a cost. Plus, if anything extra had to be done—expert witnesses, etc., that drives the price higher.
Murder trials, it seems, cost anywhere from close to a hundred thousand up to millions.
Incarceration costs about 47,000 per year in CA (the only state I could find data).
This guy was a net cost saving to taxpayers, even with the ICU costs.
No, it makes the incremental cost negligible.
There were plastic bottles and gasoline........ are plastic bottles a suitable substitute for glass when making Molotov Cocktails?
It would seem the plastic bottles themselves would ignite from the flames of the rag igniter
I have a hose attachment to the camp stove fixture that allows me to use the gas grill propane. I use the Walmart bottles when camping and the gas grill propane when boiling down maple syrup
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