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Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« on: March 20, 2018, 11:33:40 am »
Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
BBC, Mar 20, 2018

US authorities suspect that a parcel bomb that exploded at a FedEx depot in Texas on Tuesday is connected to a serial bomber in the state.

The incident occurred in the early hours in Schertz, 65 miles (104km) south of Austin, where four bombs have killed two people in recent weeks.   No injuries have been reported in the Schertz blast.

"We suspect it is related to our investigation," FBI spokeswoman Michelle Lee told CNN.

Three of the four previous devices planted in Austin were hidden in parcels left at residential addresses. Police said another was probably activated by a tripwire, triggered by two men walking along a street in south-west Austin.


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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2018, 11:34:53 am »
The exploding package was from and going to an address in Austin, TX  (FNC)

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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2018, 12:00:56 pm »
I hope they catch this guy soon. 
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2018, 12:31:16 pm »
I can't help but wonder if this is a group. If it is a group, they are communicating.
Oddly, my initial thought was Stormfront.
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2018, 12:38:55 pm »
You guys think this is an ROP culprit?

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2018, 12:43:31 pm »
I can't help but wonder if this is a group. If it is a group, they are communicating.
Oddly, my initial thought was Stormfront.

I think the bombers political beliefs may well be something like this.  And I think it looks like it will be Neo-Nazi, Klan, something like this.

The FBI is investigating. I wonder where the bomber got their knowledge to make these?

Also, as said earlier, I think it took years to catch the unibomber. I hope they catch he/she soon.

Group? I guess, that's a possibility.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2018, 12:57:50 pm »
Everything is online now. When the anti-Trump forces declared war on "Trump's White Nationalists"(WN), I was afraid they would react in a similar way to this. Shutting down their forums was  an act of war for them. You should never make a martyr out of a nut. There is crazy and there is weaponized crazy. These WN people are smarter than you think.
The only thing that would make me think it wasn't a WN group is they usually target specific high-profile targets. One man gangs tend to go after seemingly random people. They plant bombs just to see them go off.
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2018, 01:21:05 pm »
Reports on local Austin radio just now that police are checking out a suspicious package at the FedEx facility at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA)... don't know yet if it's related or not.
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2018, 01:54:46 pm »
I hope they catch this guy soon.

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2018, 01:58:44 pm »
I think the bombers political beliefs may well be something like this.  And I think it looks like it will be Neo-Nazi, Klan, something like this.

The FBI is investigating. I wonder where the bomber got their knowledge to make these?

Also, as said earlier, I think it took years to catch the unibomber. I hope they catch he/she soon.

Group? I guess, that's a possibility.

@TomSea, I understand that you are really hoping it's a "right-wing" group because you think that's how things work in Texas, but unless you know something no one else knows, there is nothing to indicate that.  In fact, the only thing I've heard is a reference to Antifa, which is much more likely given the area where it is occurring.

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« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2018, 02:04:00 pm »
Has Trump said anything about this? He needs to be out in front on this.

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« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2018, 02:05:44 pm »
Has Trump said anything about this? He needs to be out in front on this.

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2018, 02:33:42 pm »
There is another suspicious package at a FedEX or UPS location.  Okay, don't know if it is at FedEX or UPS location.  This one is near San Antonio.  I'm not sure if this one is different or is the one reported this morning but using San Antonio location instead of Austin.

Further info. will determine if this one is new after the FedEX one this morning. 
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2018, 02:48:57 pm »
Package filled with “Nails and Shrapnel” en route to Austin Explodes at San Antonio FedEx Facility
Posted on March 20, 2018   
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A package filled with nails and shrapnel blew up last night in Schertz, Texas, near San Antonio on its way to Austin.   ...

The FBI says the explosions are related. ...Story (draws heavily on the Daily Mail reporting).
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2018, 02:55:29 pm »
Package filled with “Nails and Shrapnel” en route to Austin Explodes at San Antonio FedEx Facility
Posted on March 20, 2018   
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A package filled with nails and shrapnel blew up last night in Schertz, Texas, near San Antonio on its way to Austin.   ...
@mountaineer

Thanks for posting that.  So, there has been only one this morning, not another one after that one.  Good.

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2018, 03:02:49 pm »
There is another package at another FedEX location near the Austin airport.  This is after the first one today.

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2018, 03:13:19 pm »
@TomSea, I understand that you are really hoping it's a "right-wing" group because you think that's how things work in Texas, but unless you know something no one else knows, there is nothing to indicate that.  In fact, the only thing I've heard is a reference to Antifa, which is much more likely given the area where it is occurring.

Yeah, I saw your response about a nut job theory about AntiFa, be happy with it.  @Sanguine

It's pretty stupid thinking to think, 24, 28 million people can live somewhere without some bad apples and crime but I expect nothing but smears from you, heck, you sing praises about posters who speak to others vulgar and cuss. So, if that's your style, be happy with it.  I'm done with you and others similar. People don't come here for this abrasive behavior, let alone nothing to do with the conversation.

You don't want to accept truth, so you have to make it personal, well, there's a response to posters like you! Have a good day.

I'd watch LA news, they have crimes in California but only because they have about 48 million people but I won't expect you to listen to reason.

And anyone denying Aryan groups in Texas, Texas Hammerskins, etc. can deny it all they want then. There was a story in the past two years of some criminal ring led by these white supremacist groups in prison, Suit yourself. Don't expect me to read any "pings" from you.  I'm not hear just to please you.
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2018, 03:19:05 pm »
There is no pattern to discern and maybe that is the point. The first three packages were hand-delivered, on the NE SE and east side. The tripwire SW, near where I used to live. I hope the authorities know more than we do, with these two new incidents. Is someone out to destroy FedEx? Very disturbing and I hope solved ASAP.
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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2018, 03:20:49 pm »
Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?

You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"

--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple

--Nik Cruz,

Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously

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« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2018, 03:32:31 pm »
Yeah, I saw your response about a nut job theory about AntiFa, be happy with it.  @Sanguine

OK, Tom, I'll bite.  Where did I say anything about being happy about anything in this story?

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It's pretty stupid thinking to think, 24, 28 million people can live somewhere without some bad apples and crime but I expect nothing but smears from you, heck, you sing praises about posters who speak to others vulgar and cuss. So, if that's your style, be happy with it.  I'm done with you and others similar. People don't come here for this abrasive behavior, let alone nothing to do with the conversation.

Two points:  of course there are bad apples everywhere.  That doesn't explain why you immediately jumped to the conclusion that this must be racist, even bringing up the James Byrd crime to bolster your story.  Secondly, if you think disagreeing with you is "abrasive behavior" perhaps the web is not the place for you.

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You don't want to accept truth, so you have to make it personal, well, there's a response to posters like you! Have a good day.

I don't want to accept truth?  I am basing my conclusions on what is currently known, AKA "truth".  What are you basing your conclusions on?

And, thank you, I am having a nice day.

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I'd watch LA news, they have crimes in California but only because they have about 48 million people but I won't expect you to listen to reason.

No idea what that means.

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And anyone denying Aryan groups in Texas, Texas Hammerskins, etc. can deny it all they want then. There was a story in the past two years of some criminal ring led by these white supremacist groups in prison, Suit yourself. Don't expect me to read any "pings" from you.  I'm not hear just to please you.

No, I wouldn't deny that there are aryan gangs in prisons all over the nation, which includes Texas.  There are also the Mexican Mafia, MS13, Bloods, Crips and all sorts of other gangs.  What is your point specific to Texas?

Have a nice day, Tom.

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2018, 03:33:47 pm »
Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?

You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"

--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple

--Nik Cruz,

Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously

Good luck, Texans; with this amazing multi-tasking group

Maybe Special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, will text agents in the field their "Insurance Backup Special Plan."

Don't forget the anthrax scare:  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/21/when_comey_and_mueller_bungled_the_anthrax_case_133953.html 

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Re: Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2018, 03:34:53 pm »
Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?

You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"

--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple

--Nik Cruz,

Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously

Good luck, Texans; with this amazing multi-tasking group

Maybe Special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, will text agents in the field their "Insurance Backup Special Plan."

If the FBI cracks this case it will be dumb luck.
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