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kickmule

Brian D. Wells and the strange device around his neck

Sep 05, 2003 13:37

There's enough news in the Post today to keep me busy for a week, stories and editorials of significance and portent, both national and global. Presidential debates, recalled elections, diplomatic train wrecks, snipers in the deserts and truck bombs in the miserable besieged cities. But what keeps drawing my attention is the violent death of one ( Read more... )

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Update kickmule September 5 2003, 10:51:41 UTC

A two-day-old ABC News story (that I should have already seen) reports that the FBI is calling the neck cuff a homemade device. Though they admit it's "unique" and "sophisticated," they say straight out: "It is not likely that it was commercially manufactured and not likely it had any legitimate purpose." What would constitute a legitimate purpose for that thing, I have no idea, but I get the point. A nutcase made it in his basement.

The FBI has pictures of it on their website, a fact the Post failed to mention even now, several days after they went up. Thanks, Post! I revoke my earlier statement that it looks like something made in a factory. The detail is much better in these pics.

Re: Update ex_futch238 September 5 2003, 11:59:43 UTC

Those are post explosion photos. One would assume the device was damaged during the explosion. Still, it does appear home made. Home made by a sick bastard.

I missed the debate last night. I forgot all about it, otherwise I would have watched. Was it a bunch of Bush-lite and Howard Dean?

Re: Update kickmule September 5 2003, 12:22:48 UTC

Yeah, the thing is crudely fabricated. Doesn't look like it was stamped out by a machine at all. OK, with all that's wrong with the world, at least we can say there's no factory that cranks out locking neck-cuffs.

The debates: I heard some NPR yammering about them but haven't read all the box scores. It sounds like Dean is going for broke with some serious ass-stomping language. I think the other candidates may scramble to keep up, so the tone of the whole thing isn't going to be all that conciliatory. Of course you've got Lieberman being the anti-Democrat Democrat.

General Wesley Clark might run too. That would be interesting.