Incident at Fort Gordon
[Guest post by DRJ]
Monday evening there was an incident at Florida’s Fort MacDill AFB in which a man and woman were detained with weapons as they tried to enter the Base.
Tuesday evening a vehicle containing explosives was found at Fort Gordon Army Base in Georgia and a civilian was arrested. He was impersonating a soldier and may have had grenades.
Perhaps incidents like this are common but, in today’s world, it’s something I notice (with help from a friend).
— DRJ
Ruh-roh Raggey. That just a bit much. I’m hoping the other installations have their guard up.
Vivian Louise (eeeb3a) — 6/16/2010 @ 6:23 amWe have any names of these detainees/arrestees? Are we maybe protecting some group?
ManlyDad (060305) — 6/16/2010 @ 6:53 amI haven’t seen anything on who they are.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 6/16/2010 @ 6:58 amThe CNN story originally had a picture of the guy. White male, 34, military haircut, Army t-shirt. They had his name, but I missed it other than it didn’t seem “unusual” for Georgia. They may be hoping that people jump to the conclusion it was somebody from the Middle East so they can point to the racism.
Doesn’t mean it wasn’t terrorism-related though.
Stashiu3 (44da70) — 6/16/2010 @ 7:01 ami fear that we might be getting into the “hide the truth” mode we were in prior to 9-11. Like remember that Egypt Air flight that crashed. Oh, that wasn’t terrorism, we were told. Except the co-pilot said a prayer in arabic before intentionally nose diving it into the ocean.
As it is, i have long thought there was some credence to the idea that tim mcveigh was aided by al Qaeda. His lawyer pursued that theory on the idea that somehow that would have mitigated the crime. Which in my humble opinion was a crazy theory anyway. I know if I was on a jury, I would have been more likely, not less likely, to vote for death if bin Laden lended a hand, even before 9-11. But I find it very plausible that mcveigh was AQ trained, and aided.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 6/16/2010 @ 7:06 amThey have the Fort Gordon guy’s name and picture here (at least for now).
Stashiu3 (44da70) — 6/16/2010 @ 7:24 amThese are the things that make my spidey-senses tingle. There’s trouble a brewing and we’d better gird our loins for battle. I’m not an alarmist but where there is smoke, there is certainly fire.
PatriotRider (8d9a6f) — 6/16/2010 @ 7:28 amComment by Aaron Worthing — 6/16/2010 @ 7:06 am
McVeigh-AQ….
AD - RtR/OS! (eef339) — 6/16/2010 @ 9:43 amA writer named “Laurie Milroy” IIRC was all over this story and the connections of Saddam Hussein to a White Supremecist group in Oklahoma that had connections to McVeigh. Think she wrote a book about it.
BTW, can this be another “Flying Imams” moment?
AD - RtR/OS! (eef339) — 6/16/2010 @ 10:10 amDoesn’t mean it wasn’t terrorism-related though
I made a sarcastic comment about the MacDill incident, and I was going to here also, but I decided to skip it in light of two events in two days. November can’t come soon enough, nor November 2012.
MD in Philly (5a98ff) — 6/16/2010 @ 10:17 amI’m missing the connection AD. The story I linked to in #6 no longer has his picture, but they moved it to here.
Between the two stories, it looks like some of the grenades he had were flash-bangs and not fragmentation, while other items were inert. It carefully leaves it open as to whether some unidentified objects were actual explosives and mentions land mines. The guy was apparently lying to his family as well.
I’m sure there is more coming on this.
Stashiu3 (44da70) — 6/16/2010 @ 10:26 am