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2008-01-22 Home Front: WoT

Evacuations in Brooklyn after explosives found

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Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 06:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Officers went to Ivan Ivanov's apartment after he reported being shot on Sunday evening, police said. Investigators, who said the wound to his finger was self-inflicted, discovered what appeared to be a homemade bomb and several other devices and weapons.

A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said Ivanov told police he planned to use the explosives on a fishing trip, detonating the devices underwater to bring the fish to the surface.
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Police were also trying to reach Ivanov's roommate, a medical anthropologist and associate professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Residents of the Brooklyn Heights building said the professor was doing research out of the country.

Posted by ed 2008-01-22 07:50|| 2008-01-22 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Ivan Ivanov? Like John Johnson?

Gotta be an alias.

Posted by Fred 2008-01-22 08:36|| 2008-01-22 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Linguist, of Jewish descent, in the habit of scrawling antisemitic messages on nearby synagogue and house walls. Bulgarian green card holder, all according to AP link

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-22 08:43|| 2008-01-22 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 A Bulgarian Jew named Ivan Ivanov? Why does that not sound right? That's according to his attorney, BTW. If my client was a Jew-hating synagogue-defacing Bulgar with a thick accent and a walk-up full of pipe bombs, I might make up some crap about him being Jewish himself so as to catch some psychiatric hang-time on the plea bargain. Even if I had to make up a Jewish great-grandmother or something to make it stick.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-01-22 13:46|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-22 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't know about the name, but George Soros grew up a Hungarian Jew in a family that hated religious Jews and and ran messages for the Nazis rounding up Jews (although he says he didn't know the content of them at the time, when he was 13 yrs old).

And 'Soros' wasn't the original name -- his father changed it from Schwarz. So there's some precedent of sorts ....

Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 14:02|| 2008-01-22 14:02|| Front Page Top

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