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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/new-york-explosion-investigation/
The intense investigation into the weekend bomb blasts in New York and New Jersey is leading authorities to signs of a possible terror cell in those two states, law enforcement officials told CNN Monday. The ongoing investigation, which includes two bombs in New York City and devices in two cities in New Jersey, has given authorities leads on specific people who are urgently being sought.
Also on Monday morning, a federal law enforcement official said BBs and ball bearings were among the pieces of metal that appeared to be packed into both pressure cooker bombs in New York. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force of the blast.
The latest developments came just hours after a backpack containing multiple bombs was found Sunday night near an Elizabeth, New Jersey, train station, according to the FBI and the city's mayor. [...] The [New York City] blast occurred on the same day an explosion went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and a man stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall. Authorities are investigating all three incidents as possible terror acts.
Update: NYT: Police Hunt for Ahmad Khan Rahami in Connection With Manhattan Bombing
Update 2: The suspect has been captured alive, despite getting into a shootout with police.
[Ed's Note: Whereas in some parts of the world, BB is an abbreviation for ball bearing, in the US in particular it refers simply to a round pellet fired from a compressed air weapon.]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday September 19 2016, @02:01PM
From the NYT article [nytimes.com] about the suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, being sought in connection with all four bomb incidents in the NY/NJ area:
I wonder if this guy was just so fed up with heavy-handed gub'mint regulation, that he went to the ammo box. Which would make him a true patriot, no?
Donald Trump would make sure he could sell his fried chicken whenever he wanted. Because that's how we're going to make America great again!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @02:11PM
Trump promises to implement extreme vetting. Which means:
Melania Trump - not a threat, in fact an exemplar of the best talent we need in this country
Rahami and his sons - Trump would've figured out that they were dangerous, and not let them in
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by NotSanguine on Monday September 19 2016, @02:15PM
Trump promises to implement extreme vetting. Which means:
Melania Trump - not a threat, in fact an exemplar of the best talent we need in this country
Rahami and his sons - Trump would've figured out that they were dangerous, and not let them in
These aren't refugees. They are naturalized American citizens, business owners and job creators. Donald Trump thinks they need a tax cut [donaldjtrump.com].
#MAGA
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Monday September 19 2016, @02:26PM
Just to clarify:
These aren't refugees. They are naturalized American citizens,
Again, from the NYT Article about Rahami [nytimes.com]:
Donald Trump thinks they need a tax cut.
Or maybe not. [forbes.com].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @04:32PM
a naturalized citizen of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahami
Please, tell me he's not a Muslim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:10AM
Trump has boatloads of Subchapter-S corporations himself, in fact Mark Cuban speculated that that might be a reason he doesn't want to release his tax returns.
It would be entirely consistent with his behavior that he would give himself a huge tax break.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @09:09PM
Plus she's got a pretty face and nice boobs; her visa application will be fast tracked.
Of course not! Those guys are wearing black hats. Sheesh! Didn't you guys learn anything from the Westerns we grew up watching on TV? What is the matter with you people?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 19 2016, @04:32PM
> “It was neighbor complaints, it had nothing to do with his ethnicity or religion,” the mayor said. “It had to do with noise and people congregating on the streets.”
The guys who moved in the brand new family-size condos next to the really old trans bar on the four-lane Irving Park (Chicago) also only complained about the noise and people congregating. They lobbied hard at all levels to get the place closed, because of the noise, sir, we're not bigots intolerant of those weird men... Personally, I'm sadly so deaf and blind I didn't notice the place for years, despite living two blocks away.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kromagv0 on Monday September 19 2016, @05:47PM
The guys who moved in the brand new family-size condos next to the really old trans bar on the four-lane Irving Park (Chicago) also only complained about the noise and people congregating.
To be fair they may have really only been complaining about the noise and crowds and not know or cared that it was a trans bar. It wouldn't surprise me if these are the same type of people who go move out into the country and then discover that farms smell and then bitch to the authorities about smells of animals and manure as well as the noise of tractors and combines running all night during harvest and planting seasons. These are also the same type of people who will move next to a racetrack and also bitch about the noise and smells there. In all of these cases they didn't do their due diligence to find out what was there before and then find out that there is something that annoys them so they try to close it down. My wife is sort of one of those people and her first time up at our lake property in the evening she head someone shooting way off in the distance and wanted to know if we should call the police. I told her no because that is just what people out in the north woods do, they waste ammo on cans, trees, other trash and it is their property so let them.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone