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2008-04-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Kevin Brown, 32, told authorities he was bought the materials in Gainsville, Florida

ABC? language English second for you?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-03 00:06|| 2008-04-03 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope they are dam* sure they know what they are doing if they minimize this by calling it a mental issue. I doubt it is. If he had mental issues, why didn't he just run through a park somewhere with toilet paper wrapped around his head or something? This defining terrorists as mental patients is crap. They're terrorists, plain and simple. It doesn't make me feel any better knowing that a mental patient is running around instead of a terrorist.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-03 02:14|| 2008-04-03 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Really Rant Burgers we must be more understanding and compassionate of the mentally ill.. this is a perfect case..

The Jamaican national Kevin Brown, clearly has mental issues that call for a high speed scan of his brain..

...with lead pellets.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-03 02:57|| 2008-04-03 02:57|| Front Page Top

#4 purp

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-03 05:22|| 2008-04-03 05:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Some bio on this guy.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-03 06:56|| 2008-04-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 This defining terrorists as mental patients is crap.

No, it's the Soviet way.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-03 07:12|| 2008-04-03 07:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Put da pipe bomb in his mouf, mon, an' let him smoke it like a spliff. Cool running...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-03 07:35|| 2008-04-03 07:35|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, the guy has or is a problem.

A mild suggestion, tho: there is a chance he is a vet legitimately suffering from PTSD. If so, the rhetoric here will look pretty overheated.

From what I'm hearing, we weren't all that good at identifying brain trauma in people who served during the first couple years in Iraq. What used to kill or visibly injure people has in some cases caused non-visible brain damage instead.

Just sayin' ....

Posted by lotp 2008-04-03 11:25|| 2008-04-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe he built the pipe bomb according to an AQ recruiting/training video filmed in Iraq; Iraq Theatre Style Pipe Bomb for the initiating jihadi - and maybe not in Jamaica but in Jamaica airspace.

Perhaps he is mentally ill and not part of a lousy attempt to penetrate security or distraction ploy/intel gathering. Either way he is dangerous, this is most definately beyond painting waterlillys on the grocery store floor with squeeze cheese.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-04-03 11:35|| 2008-04-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Really Rant Burgers we must be more understanding and compassionate of the mentally ill.. this is a perfect case..

Because all of Rantburg knows that in addition to your much-touted military prowness and vast experience in foreign policy,, you have that medical degree in psychiatry from the Sobornne...

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-03 12:10|| 2008-04-03 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Let's see that DD 214.

Posted by bman 2008-04-03 12:11|| 2008-04-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 OK. So we need to find out if he was a vet with head trauma or just a guy who smoked too much (or not enough) ganga and was led astray by some imam. If he's the former get him to a hospital. If he's the latter send him to the gallows.

Posted by Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-04-03 14:02|| 2008-04-03 14:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Because all of Rantburg knows that in addition to your much-touted military prowness and vast experience in foreign policy,, you have that medical degree in psychiatry from the Sobornne...

I do recognize that you aren't getting enough well deserved recognition, especially of late, but all I was making was some light of the situation that seems now to have touched a tender sore spot by accident...apparently.

humor is good medicine.. lame humor ehhh LOL!

sp: prowess
sp: Sorbonne

Posted by Dr RD">Dr RD 2008-04-03 14:09|| 2008-04-03 14:09|| Front Page Top

#14 was making was some light of the situation that seems now to have touched a tender sore spot by accident...apparently.

Yeah, you did. I had a corpsman try to commit suicide two days ago. He's been back from Iraq a month.

Correction: Three months.

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-03 14:27|| 2008-04-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Pappy, I know you are a Stud and don't forget that please brother.

Posted by RD"> RD 2008-04-03 14:36|| 2008-04-03 14:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Tough deal, Pappy. Hope he makes out all right.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-03 14:39|| 2008-04-03 14:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Without getting too heavy here it's pretty clear that we're seeing a number of walking wounded coming back from combat with no obvious physical injuries.

Suicides, divorce, domestic violence, guys driving sports cars as if they were dodging IEDs on the road to Baghdad airport in 2005. Combine that with brain trauma injuries and there really are some problems that worry commanders and those who care for returning troops.

Not excusing or calling our military 'victims'. They're not, as a whole. But some of them are hurtin in ways that are neither visible nor perhaps imagined by people who've neither fought in that sandbox nor taken care of those who've returned.

fwiw

Posted by lotp 2008-04-03 14:49|| 2008-04-03 14:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Indeed. The statistics I've read (not one number of which I can recall, I fear) make it clear that a goodly proportion of those who would have been dead in past wars are walking (or not) wounded in this one. And lots of them are traumatic brain injuries resulting from concussions from being tossed about by IEDs. There is an awful lot of new brain science and therapeutic technique being developed for those paying the invisible cost of this war.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-03 18:57|| 2008-04-03 18:57|| Front Page Top

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