Posted on 01/15/2020 12:38:39 AM PST by grundle
New Jersey shooters David Anderson and Francine Graham had an improvised explosive device inside their U-Haul van that had the reach of five football fields, a weapon that could have been part of larger wave of attacks targeting the Jewish community and law enforcement, officials said Monday.
"If it exploded in the right place it could have certainly injured or killed people up to five football fields away," said FBI Newark Special Agent in Charge Gregory Ehrie.
Ehrie and others mentioned the homemade bomb along with new details about the investigation into both the shooters and the incidents that led up to the pair opening fire inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City on December 10.
Both shooters -- who Ehrie said were not connected to any group, including the Black Hebrew Israelites -- were living in that van. They surveilled the supermarket days before the attack and even drove past the location that day, officials said.
There were also enough materials in the van to make another explosive device, Ehrie said.
The violence, which officials said was months in the making, included the purchase of five firearms in March 2018, target practice with long guns days before the shooting, the shooting at a vehicle being driven by a Hasidic Jew close to Newark Airport, and the bludgeoning and shooting death of another victim, Michael Rumberger, also before the Jersey City shooting.
Graham rented the van Nov. 27.
"This was nothing but a senseless, evil, cowardly act of anti-Semitism and hatred towards not just the Jewish community but law enforcement," said US Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito. "Anderson and Graham both targeted Jewish victims and law enforcement and we know now that they planned greater acts of mayhem on both communities."
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If it exploded in the right place it could have certainly injured or killed people up to five football fields away,” said FBI Newark Special Agent in Charge Gregory Ehrie.
Not buying it. Too perfect. If it would’ve worked they would have used it.
“FBI says”................that’s it for me, ANYTHING the FBI says is BS and should NEVER, EVER be trusted!!!!!
—> “If it exploded in the right place it could have certainly injured or killed people up to five football fields away,” <——
What the hell kind of metrics are these? This is ridiculous sensationalism made to stir people up without any semblance of facts. ???What type of explosive? How much of it? There are details necessary to quantify this kind of thing. “could have...injured or killed people five football fields away”? Give me a break.
That’s Gal Qaeda.
The FBI historically is a partner in the bomb making.
FBI
Framing Bomb Instigators
Why bring up the part about the CI? What is suspicious about a u haul parked? This part makes no sense.
“ The incident unfolded as Det. Joseph Seals, a 13-year veteran of the Jersey City Police Department, was meeting an informant at a cemetery about a mile from where the shooting took place. He saw the U-Haul van parked in a spot that made him suspicious, Carpenito said. The detective went to investigate, and that’s when Graham and Anderson, who had been living in the van, opened fire and killed him using a 9mm handgun, Carpenito said.”
From the articles in other reports, It sounds like it was a pipe bomb - which would not spread 5 football fields away. So, perhaps they are referring to the effects of it combined with the car full of materials.
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“Top law enforcement leaders from varying levels of New Jersey government said Wednesday afternoon that a “pipe bomb,” along with multiple other weapons, were recovered at the scene.
Other sources described a crudely made device with black powder and a fuse; they said it wasn’t immediately clear if it was operable.”
NY post
“A pipe bomb was found in the attackers’ van, FBI agent Gregory Ehrie said”.
Washington Times
Even if that pipe bomb was constructed using high explosives like C4 there is no way that the effective radius is 1,500 feet. Typical sensationalism by the fibbies.
Agree.
Their readers don't know what 500 yards means?
Start with the basics.
Lol. Btw. Number 1 trending on Twitter is #CNNistrash
p.s. a regulation fussball table is supposedly two-and-a-half by five feet. Your scoring my vary!
I do not believe these idiotic killers could construct a bomb that powerful. Te FBI is lying, to puff themselves up.
The FBI is always there after the fact. Unless they’re trying to frame someone. Such as Trump.
AND tell me Mr FIB agent.
If they were in the van that the first bomb was going to be exploded, what good would the extra material be to them?
Lying thugs
Don't confuse us with facts. Just call us "Butter". We're on a roll here.
“” “” Jersey City shooters had a bomb in their truck with the reach of five football fields, FBI says””” “
LOL. 5 kilotons? Not even a suitcase nuke is that destructive.
I’ve seen this posted before, but I just don’t understand.
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