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Austin bomber had 'target list,' used 'very unique' batteries purchased from Asia, McCaul says
Fox News. com ^ | March 22, 2018 | Travis Fedschun

Posted on 03/22/2018 9:25:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

The 23-year-old man linked to the deadly bombings that rocked Austin, Texas, and surrounding areas over the past month had a "target list" of future locations he wanted to strike, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said Thursday.

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that authorities have discovered that Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, had a "target list of future targets" including residences and addresses discovered by authorities.

"I think he had pulled these addresses, these were his future targets. It was a target list." he said on "America's Newsroom."

McCaul added that based on the data authorities were able to retrieve from Conditt, they were able to go the homes and "clear them" from any suspicious packages.

"We were also able to use technology to find a digital footprint of where his cellphone had been, so that the key evidence was getting his cellphone number so that when he turned his cellphone immediately the SWAT teams descended on him at about 3 o’clock in the morning so we got close to him before he blew himself up," he said.

McCaul told Fox News that authorities are now looking at those addresses that Conditt pulled to try to find a link between them.

"That is what we are looking at right now. What is the common denominator between all these victims, or is it just completely random?" he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; markanthonyconditt
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To: thoughtomator

where did you find out that his dad was senior fbi and what other one are you referring to?


21 posted on 03/22/2018 10:22:13 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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To: thoughtomator

I believe you have your facts wrong re: his dad. The dad’s name is different.


22 posted on 03/22/2018 10:26:10 AM PDT by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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To: BlackAdderess

double checking to make sure it seems I made an error, never mind


23 posted on 03/22/2018 10:26:19 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: livius
Well there's a lot of angry people today who don't go around setting off bombs to kill people as this killer did. Again he wanted to kill people and on several occasions....which he would have continued with if not stopped.......All these side discussions of his mental state, upbringing, and the like, what he liked or hated are just distractions from his motive to kill people because that's what he decided, planned and carried out to do. What people for decades have tried to do is 'understand' the criminal mind, which has been with us since creation. Some people act on their 'thinking' others do not. This guy chose to go the way he did knowing full well what the end would mean. They always do.....
24 posted on 03/22/2018 10:30:54 AM PDT by caww
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To: Kaslin

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski machined his own screws and other tiny bomb parts so they couldn’t be traced.


25 posted on 03/22/2018 10:32:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Army Air Corps

Certainly not EverReady batteries.


26 posted on 03/22/2018 10:36:17 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Kaslin

The impression of the Conditt character I’m reading is one of a Jeckyll and Hyde type. By day, an upstanding and likeable young man. By night a cunning but troubled young adult.

There are folks out there who can pull the wool over the eyes of family and friends, so the idea that he can be a regular dude by day and a bomber by night is not so far-fetched. But there are enough gaps in this guy’s character (what little we know) that I’m surprised that a jobless, home-schooled Millennial with no prior record or known issues (again, as he is presented as not having) would think up and embark on a bombing campaign all by themselves. And that the authorities are seemingly so quick to close the book on it.


27 posted on 03/22/2018 10:42:27 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rigelkentaurus
It is beginning to sound like the government grabbed all cell phone location information on every phone that was near each bombing, and then pulled a list of every phone that had all / most sites in common . . . Isn’t it great to know we live in a police state where the 4th amendment is null and void whenever it inconveniences the government?

I don't see this as a violation of search and seizure. Obtaining location and identification data in the course of a criminal investigation is entirely appropriate, and we voluntarily give that information to our cell phone companies. They are entitled to share it at will, subject, of course, to customer backlash if their sharing becomes offensive.

28 posted on 03/22/2018 10:43:30 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BradyLS
......"Conditt character I’m reading is one of a Jeckyll and Hyde type. By day, an upstanding and likeable... man. By night a cunning ....adult"......

Lets loose the flowery words...this guy was also considered so....


29 posted on 03/22/2018 10:53:50 AM PDT by caww
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To: TexasGunLover

His cell phone survived the explosion fully intact? How did the authorities access.it?


30 posted on 03/22/2018 10:57:20 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: deport
You can buy a good faraday sleeve for your cell phone for less than $10 on Amazon.
31 posted on 03/22/2018 11:09:27 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Zeppo

I’m more concerned about how a 23 year old loser gets ahold of explosives and detonation devices.


32 posted on 03/22/2018 11:10:19 AM PDT by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tired.." of WINNING!)
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To: thoughtomator

First I have hear of what you say. Can you elaborate? I am not doubting you, but man if it is true a lot of other things come into play.


33 posted on 03/22/2018 11:23:56 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: pingman

Internet. Everything you need to build such things is found at a grocery store.


34 posted on 03/22/2018 11:26:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (Dr. Spock was an idiot!.)
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To: Kommodor

Yeah, Amazon sells terrific bicycle lights made in China for under $50 that are rated at 10,000 LM. Really, I don’t think they are 2,000 LM, but that’s still brighter than anything else in their price range. The problem is that the Chinese Li batteries that come with them last about two months, so I am constantly buying more of these very unique Asian batteries at $6-7 a pop. I suppose that puts me on a list somewhere.


35 posted on 03/22/2018 11:35:45 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: subterfuge

Funny that. The FBI took over ...and all silence...


36 posted on 03/22/2018 11:40:01 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Kaslin
"In the recording, Manley said the message is rather "the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life."

What challenges? How to tell Mommy and Daddy that he's a homo?

37 posted on 03/22/2018 11:51:13 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SecAmndmt
His cell phone survived the explosion fully intact? How did the authorities access.it?

Explosions do not obliterate all matter around them (unless nuclear).

Solid state memory is very robust, and it's doubtful the chip itself or even possibly the phone was damaged at all.
38 posted on 03/22/2018 12:08:49 PM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: pingman
I’m more concerned about how a 23 year old loser gets ahold[sic] explosives and detonation devices.

You're kidding, right? The average home garage and cleaning cabinet has most of the materials required to make an explosive device.
39 posted on 03/22/2018 12:10:21 PM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: Zeppo

I noticed the same thing. In proper grammar, the adjective unique should not be modified via another adjective. Something is either unique, or it is not unique. There are not varying degrees of unique.


40 posted on 03/22/2018 12:13:07 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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