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Person Briefed on Probe: Bombs in Pressure Cookers (Boston)
AP via ABC News ^ | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | Eileen Sullivan

Posted on 04/16/2013 9:33:09 AM PDT by kristinn

A person briefed on the Boston Marathon investigation says the explosives were in 6-liter pressure cookers and placed in black duffel bags.

The person says the explosives were placed on the ground and contained shards of metal, nails and ball bearings.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bostonmarathon; patriotsdaybombing
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To: PapaBear3625

Someone who comes from the Muslim world is more familiar with pressure cookers. They are widely used to conserve fuel in developing countries that cook single pot foods.
They aren’t that popular in the US and sales should be easy to trace.


21 posted on 04/16/2013 9:47:03 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: The Louiswu

Like my mother in law’s cooking (all done in pressure cookers and results looks like shrapnel).


22 posted on 04/16/2013 9:47:41 AM PDT by llevrok (2013: The USA is in a Cold Civil War.)
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To: kristinn

If theyr’e saying they know what they looked like (discarded property), then they have a video. Cross your fingers. Cameras all over the place.


23 posted on 04/16/2013 9:47:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldexpat

Pretty commonly used at high altitudes of Afghanistan and Pakistan.


24 posted on 04/16/2013 9:48:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kristinn

Flashback:

Accused Fort Hood plotter got bombmaking recipe from Al Qaeda

“Abdo admitted that he planned to assemble two bombs in the hotel room using gun powder and shrapnel packed into pressure cookers to detonate inside an unspecified restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood,” the affidavit says.

The plot was uncovered by the suspicions and quick thinking of a clerk and manager at the Guns Galore gun shop near the military base. Abdo reportedly asked the manager what “smokeless powder” was. The soldier then purchased six, one-pound containers of smokeless powder.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/0729/Accused-Fort-Hood-plotter-got-bombmaking-recipe-from-Al-Qaeda


25 posted on 04/16/2013 9:49:13 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: OrioleFan
Why does anyone need more than a one liter pressure cooker? High capacity pressure cookers capable of holding more than one liter must be banned!
26 posted on 04/16/2013 9:50:38 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: kristinn; All
Time for common sense pressure cooker and ball bearing reform!
27 posted on 04/16/2013 9:50:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: kristinn

Someone claimed that the odor was similar to fireworks.


28 posted on 04/16/2013 9:51:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Sacajaweau
-- I'm gonna guess...simply a way to bypass a bomb sniffer..dog or device... --

Yes, it could have that benefit too. I was just pointing our or amplifying part of the story, that a "low explosive" inside a pressure cooker will make an explosion. That same "low explosive" out in the open will just burn.

-- Were there any used for a food stop? --

Unlikely.

But, thinking aout it, I know of an old fast food place that used pressure cookers. Chicken that was "broasted." I don't remember the name of the fast food chain.

29 posted on 04/16/2013 9:51:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ArrogantBustard
If registering pressure-cooker owners saves even one life, it's worth it. Do it now ... for the children!

No amount of tax cuts would have prevented pressure cooker purchases.

30 posted on 04/16/2013 9:53:13 AM PDT by llevrok (2013: The USA is in a Cold Civil War.)
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To: SampleMan
The amount of smoke also would be consistant with black powder.

That is exactly what I was thinking. It looked exactly like a black powder bomb. Tons of white smoke and a relatively small fireball.

31 posted on 04/16/2013 9:54:26 AM PDT by Mr. Quarterpanel (I am not an actor, but I play one on TV)
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To: Cboldt

They used pressure cookers for our local chili cookoff.


32 posted on 04/16/2013 9:55:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ArrogantBustard

There are people on this very forum who have more than one pressure cooker. These are called “arsenals” in the New York Times.


33 posted on 04/16/2013 9:57:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Colorado Doug

At first i was going to reply, then realized you were being sarcastic ;-) Damn time consuming to can a few quarts of veggies in a one liter cooker!


34 posted on 04/16/2013 9:57:27 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Billthedrill
Oh NOES!!!!

The Pressure Cooker Police will soon be breaking down my front door at Oh Dark Thirty!!!!

35 posted on 04/16/2013 9:58:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: The Louiswu
Time for universal pressure cooker registration to be held by DOJ in perpetuity!
36 posted on 04/16/2013 9:58:34 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Paladin2

Fireworks -> black powder (sulphur in the smell)


37 posted on 04/16/2013 9:58:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Flashback:

More Fort Hood Plotter Details Emerge: Built Al Qaeda Pressure Cooker Bombs

Authorities told FOX News Channel Saturday that in a search of Abdo’s hotel room they found 18lbs (8kg) of sugar, a pressure cooker and smokeless gunpowder that was to be used as the trigger. He had enough bomb making materials for two bombs, they said.

“He was all ready to go,” one law enforcement source said.

The bomb making materials and methodology was “straight out of Inspire magazine and an al Qaeda explosives course manual,” one counterterrorism source said, referring to the terrorist organization’s English-language magazine.

A second source confirmed that two additional Fort Hood soldiers have been questioned about Abdo.

According to the criminal complaint, Abdo admitted to the arresting officers that he intended to conduct an attack in Killeen and Fort Hood and that he had explosives in his backpack and his hotel room.

It was revealed last week that police found a gun, ammunition, two clocks, and two spools of auto wire in Abdo’s backpack, along with an article entitled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom.”

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/17628449/more-fort-hood-plotter-details-emerge?clienttype=printable


38 posted on 04/16/2013 9:58:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Sacajaweau

Have any leftovers? Chili, I mean, not pressure cookers.


39 posted on 04/16/2013 9:59:29 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mr. Quarterpanel

Sugar with smokeless gunpowder trigger.


40 posted on 04/16/2013 10:00:29 AM PDT by jimbo123
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