I don’t understand what you think is “dumber than a bag of hammers” about the statement.
“allegedly placed” - Ok, did he have an alibi??? Was he somewhere else when the bomb was placed??? These types of statements are asine as they are nothing but a CYA fill in the “obvious” blanks...
“inactive car bomb” - already putting a defense in the hands of this murderer...”Well I didn’t know it was NOT going to go off when I pressed the button...”
I assume that some may wish it would have gone off to remove all doubt about his intentions...And not scrutinize his incompetence...
See journalists of this caliber really want carnage and chaos...It truly (internally) justifies their existance, and if they can subtly put into print things like this for everyone to read, it really is like they would have rather preferred the murderer to succeed...And they are somewhat saddened that they did not...