The Airport Bomber From Last Week You Never Heard About

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: October 12, 2017 at 4:16:38 PM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The Airport Bomber From Last Week You Never Heard About
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>
> The Airport Bomber From Last Week You Never Heard About
> By Shaun King
> Oct 11 2017
> <https://theintercept.com/2017/10/11/terrorist-donald-trump-airport-bomber-estes-asheville/>
>
> It’s strange how some things really catch on and go viral and others don’t. These days, nothing quite makes a story 
> blow up — no pun intended — like the president’s fixation with it. That’s why it’s so peculiar that what sure looks 
> like an attempted terrorist attack was narrowly thwarted at an American airport this past Friday without so much as a 
> peep from Donald Trump about it. No tweets. No nicknames for the alleged would-be-terrorist. Nothing. You’ll see why 
> in a minute.
>
> This past Friday morning, at 12:39 a.m., security footage from the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina 
> showed a man walking through the front doors wearing black clothing and a black cap, while carrying a bag. “Based on 
> a review of the video, the individual walked near the entrance to the terminal, went out of sight momentarily, and 
> was then seen departing the area without the bag,” according to the criminal complaint.
>
> Following the Transportation Security Administration’s protocols, airport security allowed a bomb dog to sniff the 
> bag for explosives and the dog signaled to the team the presence of dangerous materials in the bag. The concourse was 
> then shut down. The street leading to the airport was shut down. And Asheville Regional Airport officials found 
> themselves in a dangerous emergency situation.
>
> What investigators eventually found in the bag was AN/FO (Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil) explosives that, according to 
> the criminal complaint, have been used “in a number of terrorist-related incidents around the world. When AN/FO comes 
> into contact with a flame or other ignition source it explodes violently. Nails or ball bearings are often items 
> added to the device so as to increase the devastation inflicted by the explosion.”
>
> In fact, sharp nails and bullets were found in this improvised explosive device. Whoever built it designed the bomb 
> to cause horrific bodily harm. Before disarming it, authorities discovered that the alarm attached to it was 
> scheduled to go off at 6:00 a.m. that morning just as a fresh round of travelers was scheduled to arrive at the 
> airport.
>
> The man who planted it, it turns out, openly admitted to authorities that he was “preparing to fight a war on U.S. 
> soil” and that this bomb was but one part of that war.
>
> Little Fanfare
>
> I bet you never heard about it. I keep an eye on these types of incidents closely and I didn’t hear about it. Someone 
> who follows me online who happens to live in Asheville sent me the story this morning — shocked that it hadn’t gotten 
> any play at all beyond a few mentions in the local paper and some isolated pickup by a few national outlets.
>
> As soon as I clicked on the article, it all made perfect sense.
>
> [snip]
>
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