Investigators find Molotov cocktail, bottles with flamable liquid in burned student's apartment

WSBTV ^

[BelleAl]

ATLANTA — Friends say a Georgia Tech graduate student is in critical condition after an apartment fire off 10th Street in midtown.

Atlanta police told Channel 2’s Erica Byfield that Saamar Akhshabi was burned from an incendiary device in the incident.

WSBTV.com reported the explosion as breaking news Tuesday just after 8:30 p.m. When investigators arrived on scene they found the international student with severe burns to his hands, arms and chest.

[null and void]

He probably considered it a threat but a real one.

So did I.

[Blueflag]

Easy connection to make.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Hold my camel urine, and watch this!”

[Kartographer]

Maybe he had a need they just caught him before he could use them? ;-)

[Blueflag]

Now ... if the demolition team takes the building down like that apartment by the Mosque up in MW/WI (I forget which) THEN we will be able to put on our tin foil hats for sure.

[livius]

Betcha they had been following this guy. Fortunately, he seems to have been the usual case of jihadi premature detonation.

I wonder where he planned to pull off the attack? I’m not even remotely familiar with the area. If it was “just one” Molotov cocktail, it may have been something like a recruiting station or a symbolic attack of some kind. On the other hand, he may not have been working alone, and even a symbolic attack can kill people.

He can think about it on the burn ward.

[null and void]

Can they just come here to the Great Satan and study?

Yup. by the tens of thousands.

Their government allows it?

Yup. Pre-positioned terrorists have to get into the country some how, need access to our our brains to blow them out, need justifcation to get H-1Bs so the can be at critical infrastructure and industry points when the time comes.

We allow it?

WE don't, "our" government actively encourages it (Where was chief presidential adviser VayJay born again?)

Why are we educating these folks?

Because we are stupid and/or suicidal.

Who is paying for his doctoral work?

I would guess Terran kicks in a little, and the rest is you and me through our hard earned tax dollars.

Does that clarify it for you?

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[La Lydia]

And a final one: What is a rhetorical question?

[Slings and Arrows]

"Allahu FUBAR!"

[null and void]

I wonder where he planned to pull off the attack?

What's the shelf life of a bottle of gasoline with a rag stuck in it?

Hours? Days?

How far can it be safely transported?

Blocks? Miles?

[Nifster]

... a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech.....

[null and void]

An opportunity to shout out loud an answer that too many are trying not to say or think?

[PGalt]

Poor lad, that Saamar Akhshabi. He was probably stockpiling Molotov cocktails for happy hour with friends.

[Blueflag]

This is pretty near the heart of ‘nice’ downtown / midtown Atlanta. 10th Street runs east-west, and crosses I-75/85, the downtown connector. The west side there is the Ga Tech campus. So he was essentially in next-to-campus housing, and a short walk to the student center, the Army ROTC building, or across the bridge to any number of running-dog capitalist Great Satan company buildings.

CNN itself is way south of campus, but the Cartoon network is close ;-)

The Coca Cola building is on the south edge of campus, but it has been a secure compound for years, and he’d have to have an arm like a major league right fielder to do any damage to the building itself.

Who knows?

[Sir Napsalot]

Molotov cocktails?

Georgia Tech, huh? Is he an engineering major? Did ‘the international student’ graduate to ‘pressure cooker’, or planted IEDs?

No, I see, he’s in computer science. Also the article never mentioned which international national origin.

From the article, “.... third-degree burns on 90 percent of his body.” He’s covered by Obamacare.

[Grampa Dave]

Saamar Akhshabi, sounds like another Amish Tea Party dissident causing problems.

[null and void]

Who knows?

Maybe one of his engineering student buddies was busy making a giant slingshot?

[Lady Jag]

Terrorists is what Americans will be called if all our guns are taken away.

Support your Free Republic

[Iron Munro]

“Hold my camel urine, and watch this!”

[tet68]

I spent four wonderful years at University of Tehran completing my B.Sc. in computer engineering.

So he says in his Bio.