Posted on 03/21/2015 1:25:26 PM PDT by abb
Jefferson Parish officials held a 2 p.m. press conference to provide the latest after Friday night's incident at New Orleans' Armstrong International airport. Here are some highlights from the press conference:
-- Bomb squad went into aggressor White's car at the airport Friday night and found some smoke bombs and three tanks in trunk; intended purpose unknown. Acetylene, freon and oxygen tanks found.
-- Bag that White had in security checkpoint area was found to have six half-pint mason jars with cloth wicks into gasoline; known as Molotov cocktails; BBQ lighter found in bag too along with plastic letter opener, crushed powder, green fuses which appeared to be crushed smoke bombs.
-- White has a mental illness. His family has been cooperative with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/live_coverage_new_orleans_airp.html
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“intended purpose unknown”
Let me make an educated guess. . . .
Workplace violence?
Come on down! If the mental cases, thugs, drug addicts, scammers. drunks and straight-up morons don’t get you the heat, mosquitoes and flying roaches will.
“Aggressor”? Is that a grown-up “teen”?
Mrs. abb & I just returned yesterday from a 5 day stay in N. O. The restaurants are to die for. Best food on the North American continent, IMO.
President Obama is there?
No flying roaches.....he would smoke them up.
Islamus jihadus?
” To die for” may be more literal than you know. People are getting robbed and assaulted in the Quarter on a daily basis. I wouldn’t go down there without armed bodyguards-and I was born here.
LOL, No, thank God. But he’d fit right in attitude-wise, so would his snarling wife.
They said he was a Jehovah’s Witness with no criminal record
Oh OK, guess it's all cool then.
And what about the taxi driver who drove down a sidewalk in NY? Cab Jumps Curb, Hits 4 in NYC; Man, Girl Killed; 2 Injured
THESE ARE ALL JUST COINCIDENCES, FOLKS!
I picked that up too. Less “provocative” than terrorist, lunatic, or home brewed jihadist. Lunatic has my vote since he certainly hadn’t thought things through, fortunately. If he’d set off his bombs first it could have been much worse.
He has a mental illness. You don’t say...
It’s fortunate in a way that this guy made the somewhat inexplicable decision to attack an airport security station, instead of something softer and more vulnerable like a mall or a school.
Says he killed one of the other cops. One is in hospital in critical condition.
No, it doesn’t look like “an ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TERRORIST ATTACK by a Jihadist cop” to me.
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