Ineptitude In Law Enforcement
I respect law enforcement. However when stories like this one catch my eye, I just have to shake my head. (Hat-tip: Captain's Quarters, and emphasis is mine.)
ARLINGTON — Authorities know who is responsible for leaving two fairly sophisticated explosive devices inside a south Arlington hotel suite, but they are not naming the man until relatives are notified.
Management at the InTown Suites, an extended-stay hotel in the 1700 block of Oak Village Boulevard, called 911 about 6 p.m. Friday to report a duffel bag filled with ammunition and two pipe bombs in the room of a man who died at an Arlington hospital about two days ago, Deputy Fire Marshal Darin Niederhaus said.
The hotel was evacuated, and the bombs, along with another suspicious package in the hotel parking lot, were detonated late Friday.The pipe bombs were about 15 inches long, about 3 inches in diameter and connected to each other by 10 to 12 feet of wire. The bombs were filled with black powder, gunshot pellets and enough bullets to create a spray of shrapnel if exploded, investigators said.
The man came to Arlington about a month ago and took a job at a local business, Niederhaus said. The car he was driving had Louisiana license plates, but the man had driver’s licenses from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, Niederhaus said. There is no evidence that the man was a terrorist, Niederhaus said. The ingredients for the two bombs that were detonated are not difficult to find, but can be tricky to manipulate.
“The purpose of this was to create as much havoc as possible, so that innocent bystanders are hurt,” he said. “We were lucky.”
No evidence that the man was a terrorist. Telling, isn't it. We're just over a decade reoved from the Oklahoma City bombing, and the police in Arlington seems to have forgotten about the concept of domestic terrorism. Granted, this was no fertilizer bomb designed to destroy a building, but if this man were to have lived and gone into a mall to detonate these devices, the outcome would have been quite deadly. I'm appalled that the police isn't taking this man seriously, regardless of the fact that he's dead now. Where did he get the materials? Did he have any accomplices? Did they track his movements back through Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana?
It seems to me that the police don't believe that anyone could be a terrorist. If I took my firearm into a store in Chicago and started shooting at people, that is a crime of assault and attempted murder, but it also falls under the purview of terrorism laws. So, why are the police not taking this matter a bit more seriously than what is alluded to in this news report?
It's simply disgusting that the police seem so apathetic about this. I'd be willing to be that if the man's name was Mohammed, they'd be thinking twice about this. That's not to be racist, but memories are short, and people seem to have forgotten the "terrorists" that we've had here in the nation. They were named Timothy, Terry, Ted, Yaser, Jose, and John.
Terrorists don't just come from Middle Eastern countries. Some are grown right here, and if I were the officer in charge of the investigation in Arlington, I'd be doing a bit more digging.
Mistress Pundit
I respect law enforcement. However when stories like this one catch my eye, I just have to shake my head. (Hat-tip: Captain's Quarters, and emphasis is mine.)
ARLINGTON — Authorities know who is responsible for leaving two fairly sophisticated explosive devices inside a south Arlington hotel suite, but they are not naming the man until relatives are notified.
Management at the InTown Suites, an extended-stay hotel in the 1700 block of Oak Village Boulevard, called 911 about 6 p.m. Friday to report a duffel bag filled with ammunition and two pipe bombs in the room of a man who died at an Arlington hospital about two days ago, Deputy Fire Marshal Darin Niederhaus said.
The hotel was evacuated, and the bombs, along with another suspicious package in the hotel parking lot, were detonated late Friday.The pipe bombs were about 15 inches long, about 3 inches in diameter and connected to each other by 10 to 12 feet of wire. The bombs were filled with black powder, gunshot pellets and enough bullets to create a spray of shrapnel if exploded, investigators said.
The man came to Arlington about a month ago and took a job at a local business, Niederhaus said. The car he was driving had Louisiana license plates, but the man had driver’s licenses from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, Niederhaus said. There is no evidence that the man was a terrorist, Niederhaus said. The ingredients for the two bombs that were detonated are not difficult to find, but can be tricky to manipulate.
“The purpose of this was to create as much havoc as possible, so that innocent bystanders are hurt,” he said. “We were lucky.”
No evidence that the man was a terrorist. Telling, isn't it. We're just over a decade reoved from the Oklahoma City bombing, and the police in Arlington seems to have forgotten about the concept of domestic terrorism. Granted, this was no fertilizer bomb designed to destroy a building, but if this man were to have lived and gone into a mall to detonate these devices, the outcome would have been quite deadly. I'm appalled that the police isn't taking this man seriously, regardless of the fact that he's dead now. Where did he get the materials? Did he have any accomplices? Did they track his movements back through Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana?
It seems to me that the police don't believe that anyone could be a terrorist. If I took my firearm into a store in Chicago and started shooting at people, that is a crime of assault and attempted murder, but it also falls under the purview of terrorism laws. So, why are the police not taking this matter a bit more seriously than what is alluded to in this news report?
It's simply disgusting that the police seem so apathetic about this. I'd be willing to be that if the man's name was Mohammed, they'd be thinking twice about this. That's not to be racist, but memories are short, and people seem to have forgotten the "terrorists" that we've had here in the nation. They were named Timothy, Terry, Ted, Yaser, Jose, and John.
Terrorists don't just come from Middle Eastern countries. Some are grown right here, and if I were the officer in charge of the investigation in Arlington, I'd be doing a bit more digging.
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