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http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/michael-christopher-estes-asheville-airport-bomber-suspect/
A 46-year-old man is facing federal charges accusing him of leaving a jar filled with explosives at a North Carolina airport as part of a war he pledged to fight on U.S. soil.
Michael Christopher Estes was arrested October 7 and charged with attempted malicious use of explosive materials and unlawful possession of explosive materials in an airport, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
The improvised explosive device, or IED, was found inside a jar at the Asheville Regional Airport about 7 a.m. on October 6, the FBI said in the complaint. Bomb technicians from the Asheville Police Department rendered the device safe. The baggage claim and lobby area of the airport were evacuated and shut down for about 2 hours. No one was injured.
also at USA Today and The Independent
(Score: 2) by number11 on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:03PM (3 children)
This is true. But usually the FBI would also give him a bomb that wouldn't actually work, and be right there on the scene to bust him when he tried to use it. If this one was an FBI dupe, it would demonstrate less competence than usual on their part. It doesn't sound like the FBI were the ones to get the credit for catching him, and the glory in appearing to save the world is the whole point, from their point of view.
Of course, we don't know much yet about where this guy is coming from. Maybe he's watched some of those other cases and thought "I can do that better". Or maybe, if he is indeed Native American, his sovereign nation (reservation) has declared war on the US invaders. Maybe he's jealous of the militias that nutcase white guys get to join. Maybe the airport lost his bag.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:07PM (2 children)
Like this one?
There's no way this device would work. Go read TFA.
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(Score: 2) by number11 on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:42PM (1 child)
According to TFA, he seems to have purchased most or all the parts for the bomb, and probably made it himself. (You'd think he would have tried making a prototype and setting it off, just to test the design, but I guess he skipped that step.) The FBI would have come up with something less Rube Goldberg, and has in other cases. Anyhow, the FBI didn't get the glory of busting him, so they weren't behind it. They don't do that stuff to let somebody else get the credit.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday October 16 2017, @01:31AM
Why would he do that? That would have demonstrated a desire to hurt someone. No such desire seems to have been involved.
It may that he wanted nothing more than a warm place to sleep.
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