Austin Bombings

[patrick jane]

Packages with explosive material sent to military installations in DC area


Excerpt : Multiple suspicious packages containing explosive material were sent to at least three military installations in the Washington, D.C. area, a senior defense official told Fox News Monday.

Officials told Fox 5 DC a suspicious package was received at the National Defense University on Fort McNair in Southwest Washington D.C. at around 8:30 a.m. The building was evacuated and an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from Fort Belvoir, Va. examined the package, which tested positive for black powder and residue.

An X-ray of the package indicated a suspected GPS and an expedient fuse were attached, Army officials said. The package later was rendered safe.

At approximately 11 a.m., Naval Support Facility Dahlgren in King George County, Va. also received a suspicious package that was found to be safe, officials said.

Later in the day, officials at Fort Belvoir said they had also received a suspicious package, but it was rendered safe.

"The FBI responded to multiple government facilities today for the reports of suspicious packages. Each package was collected for further analysis by the FBI," said Nicole Schwab, a spokesperson for the FBI Washington Field Office.

Fox News has learned that the packages were being examined at the FBI's field office in Quantico, Va.

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.

 

[patrick jane]

Austin Bombing Suspect's Housemate Called a Person of Interest ...


Excerpt : AUSTIN, Tex. — One of the housemates of the man responsible for a series of bombings in Texas has become a “person of interest” in the investigation, and the authorities now have evidence that the explosive devices were constructed at the suburban home the bomber shared, a Texas congressman said on Monday.

Investigators have still not found a clear motive to explain why the suspected bomber, Mark Conditt, 23, made and delivered homemade explosives that killed two people and terrorized the Texas capital for nearly three weeks before Mr. Conditt killed himself early Wednesday morning.


Mr. Conditt was living in Pflugerville, the suburb north of Austin where he grew up. He shared a house there with two other men in their 20s. Both were initially detained by the authorities, questioned and then released. Investigators have continued to question one of the housemates, who is now a person of interest in the case, Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, told Fox News on Monday.


Mr. McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and a former federal prosecutor, said all seven of Mr. Conditt’s explosive devices were built at the Pflugerville house.


“He did construct these bombs in the home,” Mr. McCaul said. “We know that much. They had to bring a robot in to dismantle and take out bomb-making materials. And the question is, did the roommate know that he was making these bombs at the time, for the last month, when all these bombings were still taking place?”


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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/austin-bombing-roommate.html

 

[patrick jane]

[h=3]FBI investigates suspicious packages at several military bases Video ...[/h]
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/fbi-investigates-suspicious-packages-military-bases-54034876

 

[patrick jane]

Man arrested in suspicious packages sent to military sites - ABC News

Authorities near Seattle have arrested a man suspected of sending suspicious packages to multiple military installations in the Washington, D.C., region, the FBI said Tuesday, warning that he may have mailed other "destructive devices" that have not yet been found.

The packages were similarly designed and contained black powder along with rambling, nonsensical notes similar to those the man has been known to send in the past, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and did so on condition of anonymity.

The FBI identified the man as Thanh Cong Phan, 43. He was arrested late Monday at his home in Everett, Washington and was set to appear in federal court Tuesday afternoon.
Roughly a dozen packages were sent Monday to sites including Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and Fort Lesley J. McNair in the district; at Fort Belvoir, in Virginia; the Naval Surface Warfare

Center Dahlgren Division, in Dahlgren, Virginia; and the CIA. No injuries were reported, and the FBI said each package was collected for further analysis.
Phan's motive was not immediately clear, but the official said there was no immediate connection to terrorism.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters on Tuesday that that all of the packages sent to Defense Department facilities are under the control of the federal authorities.
"Basically there's a set procedure, they went through the procedure," said Mattis. "We've had nobody injured and all those packages and all the evidence is accessible and is the hands of the FBI right now."
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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/man-arrested-suspicious-packages-military-sites-54041351

 

[The Barbarian]

Authorities near Seattle have arrested a man suspected of sending suspicious packages to multiple military installations in the Washington, D.C., region, the FBI said Tuesday, warning that he may have mailed other "destructive devices" that have not yet been found.

Unlike the Austin bomber, this one seems to not have targeted blacks or Hispanics, and doesn't seem to fit the profile of a right-wing terrorist.

 

[patrick jane]

Unlike the Austin bomber, this one seems to not have targeted blacks or Hispanics, and doesn't seem to fit the profile of a right-wing terrorist.

You just have to make everything about the evil right wing. It's really pathetic.

 

[Tambora]

Unlike the Austin bomber, this one seems to not have targeted blacks or Hispanics, and doesn't seem to fit the profile of a right-wing terrorist.

You keep repeating this slant when you know all accounts by the authorities that have investigated this have said that they found no motive of hatred or bigotry toward any group.
None at all.

 

[patrick jane]

[h=3]Austin bomber was 'domestic terrorist,' police chief says - NBC News[/h]
Excerpt : Two people were killed and four others wounded in the string of bombings in and around Austin that began on March 2. Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, the suspect in the case, blew himself up early March 21 as police closed in.

Manley said Thursday that as the investigation into the package and other bombings was ongoing, police were careful with their language because terrorism is specifically defined under federal law, and the suspect could have been apprehended alive.


According to the federal government's definition, a crime is classified as terrorism only if it is politically motivated.

 

[The Barbarian]

You keep repeating this slant when you know all accounts by the authorities that have investigated this have said that they found no motive of hatred or bigotry toward any group.
None at all.

Whenever he targeted someone, it was people from minority groups. Which does indicate that he's consistent with most terrorists in the United States.

 

[The Barbarian]

According to the federal government's definition, a crime is classified as terrorism only if it is politically motivated.

That would exclude many religious terrorists, who for example, seek to terrorize those of other faiths enough to make them flee; such terrorists may have no political ideology.

 

[Tambora]

Whenever he targeted someone, it was people from minority groups. Which does indicate that he's consistent with most terrorists in the United States.

An unfounded assumption that disagrees with the findings of the authorities that investigated the case.
Those authorities have information that you do not have, but you would rather go on your own biased assumptions.
The authorities have a target list the bomber made, but they did not release that target list to the public (ie. you).
So you really don't have a clue as to who all his targets were.

Is your definition of "minorities" anyone that isn't white?
Cause white folks got hurt by his bombs too.

You are so biased that you are trying to make this fella a minority hater when there is no evidence that he ever was.
Why would you do that?