[liberallyconservative]

And another thing...

Why in the hooey would you "eat" or "drink" a corrosive, knowing what it was going to do to your "insides"? The only logical explanations are:

1) he was trying to destroy evidence and didn't mind becoming a "martyr" or

2) he didn't know what it would do to him, which means he wasn't knowledgable about what he had and was transporting it for someone else.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Exactly; did he have a death wish? Swallow the evidence and die? Poor misguided chap -- and that's being nice ;).

[The_Reader_David]

I only check in on the TM theads intermittently, but this story caught my eye: I lived in Omaha two years ago and teach at K-State. The fellow presumably knew what he had if it's used in making dyes. He was taking a Masters degree in Apparel and Textiles.

There is something odd about offering a huge bribe to hush up a fender-bender, and even odder about an apparent suicide attempt in the wake of its refusal.

His name sounds Hindu rather than Muslim, so the authorities' dismissal of a terrorist link is plausible. OTOH I've read accounts of a resonably highly placed operative in an al Qaeda-linked Kashmiri group who was a convert from Hinduism to AQ's brand of Islam. We do have a Saudi-financed mosque here in Manhattan. . .