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2008-03-08 Home Front: WoT

Police Believe Recovered Bike Was Bomber's

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Fred, you have finally out done yourself with that visual. ROTFLMAO.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-03-08 08:28|| 2008-03-08 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The police are going to be serious about this guy, because he seems to have done everything right. This means that he was smart enough to have done his homework, planned an operation, and carried it out according to plan. To say that this is a rarity is an understatement.

Though they won't say, I would hazard to guess that he went to the trouble of buying his materials at different stores, and always paying cash. He wore different clothes while doing it, and not all on the same day or even the same week.

And the clothes he used on his run are now just swatches of cloth disposed of around town.

If he was a real pro, he wouldn't have had any relationship with the office, and wouldn't even be from that part of town.

And those are just some of the major details. The minor ones get complicated.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-08 08:33|| 2008-03-08 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Off topic: Anonymoose, thank you for the explanation about China last night. I wanted to thank you then, but the attack wouldn't let my post go through.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-08 08:58|| 2008-03-08 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Additional, from Debka: "They are checking whether at least three people stopped at the Canadian border are linked to a small explosion that damaged a military recruiting station in New York Thursday, causing no injuries. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said "Some pictures of Times Square, including the recruiting station, were found."

The blast triggered a Pentagon alert for other recruiting stations across the country.

US authorities are examining surveillance camera footage that shows a person on a bicycle approaching a traffic island, dismounting and walking to the recruiting station. The person is shown leaving shortly before the blast. Kelly said authorities also were looking into similarities between the recruiting station blast and small explosions at the British and Mexican consulates in 2005 and 2007, both also in the early morning."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-08 11:31|| 2008-03-08 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll believe he's a pro if they can't lift any fingerprint off the handlebars (Rubber gloves) util then ?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-03-08 13:51|| 2008-03-08 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Fingerprints are nothing. They will swab every millimeter of the bicycle looking for DNA. Unless he was wearing thick pants, it would be hard to not get a sample off the seat.

A lot of criminals today routinely carry around gallon bottles of bleach, and splash it everywhere at the crime scene. The real pros get a pump pesticide sprayer and put plastic bags on their shoes. They also learn to wear goggles very quickly.

You can imagine what spraying bleach all over a room does to what's in it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-08 17:58|| 2008-03-08 17:58|| Front Page Top

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