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Dzhokar Tsarnaez Without His Backpack Running From The Scene Of The Boston Marathon Bombing

Saturday, April 20, 2013 18:19

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Dzhokar Tsarnaez running from the scene of the Boston marathon bombing without his backpack

On Monday, April 15, 2013, this cryptic message appeared on Tumblr.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis confirmed at a press conference at the Arsenal Mall on Friday that the black cap suspect is dead. He was Tamerlain Tsarnaev, age 26, The dead suspect was run over by his own brother, 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaez who was captured early Friday evening.

In the wake of the deadly bombing attacks in Boston, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced that he will reintroduce legislation he has proposed in a prior Congress to require that sales of explosive powder be subject to a background check. He will also file the legislation as an amendment to the gun violence prevention bill currently on the Senate floor. Might that be the law the Tumblr post refers to?

Those two events give the post found on Tumblr more than a little credence. In my mind, it is a the very least eyebrow raising.

Dzhokar Tsarnaez in the white cap and Tamerlain Tsarnaev in the black cap

“It is outrageous that anyone, even a known terrorist, can walk into a store in America and buy explosives without any questions asked,” said Senator Lautenberg. “If we are serious about public safety, we must put these common-sense safeguards in place. While the police have not revealed what specific explosive materials were used in Boston, what we do know is that explosive powder is too easy to anonymously purchase across the country.” Current law allows “black powder” and other explosives to be purchased without any checks

Lautenberg will introduce the “Explosive Materials Background Check Act,” which will:

· Require a background check to purchase black powder, black powder substitute, smokeless powder, or any other explosive, in any quantity;

· Provide the Attorney General with the authority to stop the sale of explosives when a background check reveals that the applicant is a known or suspected terrorist and the Attorney General reasonably believes that the person may use the explosives in connection with terrorism; and · make it illegal to manufacture homemade explosives without a permit.

Would such a law make us safer?

Prior to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, most notable example is the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, but this was not a singular incident. The attempted car bombing in Times Square on May 1, 2010 was another recent incident of this trend and law enforcement officials have recently warned that another Mumbai-style commando attack is possible on targets in the West. Since 2008, there have been, on average, more than 4000 explosive incidents a year in the U.S..

Explosives Incidents in the United States

The following statistics are based upon explosives incidents reported to the U.S. Bomb Data Center (USBDC) including bombings, attempted bombings, incendiary bombings, stolen explosives and other categories.

Year	No. of Explosives Incidents	No. of Injuries	No. of Fatalities
2012*	4,033	37	1
2011	5,219	36	5
2010	4,897	99	22
2009	3,886	57	4
2008	4,198	97	15
2007	3,143	60	15
2006	3,797	135	14
2005	4,031	148	19
2004	3,919	263	36

Over the last decade, a new style of terrorist attack has emerged. We have seen a rise in the use of commando-style tactics: attacks by individuals or small groups, armed with both firearms and/or explosives, attacking civilians in urban areas.

The al Qaeda jihadist magazine Inspire featured an article in its first issue on how to make a bomb in your mom’s kitchen in their first issue including using a pressure cooker.

The article even tells how to make such a bomb using a pressure cooker.

You may substitute the inflammable substance extracted from matches by gunpowder used in cartilages. You may also use powder from fireworks instead. The article advises that “You do not have to use one substance. You may mix together the substance from matches, gunpowder and fireworks but when doing so you need to mix it well.”

Black powder and gun powder

Yet instead of making us safer, U.S. law is enabling suspected terrorists to purchase the guns and explosives they need to carry out just such an attack. The “Terror Gap” which prohibits the government from stopping people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns and explosives must be closed before it is too late, says Lautenberg.

Cartridges which can be emptied for gun powder and a photo of the pressure cooker used in the Boston boming.

Following the Mumbai attacks, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Assistant Director James W. McJunkin testified to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that one of the principal lessons learned from Mumbai was that a small number of trained and determined

attackers with relatively unsophisticated weapons could do a great deal of damage. He voiced the FBI’s concern that other terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and its affiliates, would take note and attempt to emulate attacks like Mumbai. A new report concluded that these small, but potentially deadly attacks are part of an al Qaeda strategy and will likely continue to increase in the United States.

Current law allows an individual to purchase as much as 50 pounds of explosive “black powder” without a background check, and also permits an individual to purchase unlimited amounts of dangerous “smokeless powder” and “black powder substitute” without a background check. Sen. Lautenberg’s proposal would change that and require a background check for any purchase of these explosive powders. These powders can be used as the explosive material in assembling pipe bombs, used in the Columbine school shooting, and pressure cooker bombs, which may have been used in the recent Boston attack.

Pyrodex, a modern black powder substitute

Lautenberg introduced a similar proposal in 2003 as part of his “Homeland Security Gun Safety Act of 2003.” Current law does not require an individual to produce a permit, identification or undergo a background check when purchasing up to fifty pounds of black powder.

In October 2010, Sen. Lautenberg released a report, “Firearms, Explosives and Terrorists – A Looming Threat – A Major U.S. Vulnerability,” examining the dangers posed to the United States by terrorism attacks using explosives. The report points to the Mumbai attacks and attempted bombing in Times Square, as demonstrating the interest and ability of terrorists to launch attacks in the United States using explosives.

To make matters worse, no permit or background check is required for the purchase of any quantity of black powder substitute or smokeless powder. Current explosives laws also do not prevent the manufacture of homemade explosives without a license, unless the manufacturer is “engaged in the business” of making explosives.

While the Boston marathon bombing was horrific, and opens questions as to who may be involved beyond the brothers Tsarnaev, whether it is terrorist cells or a false flag operation, one must ask if more laws will make us safer, if bombs can be built using sugar and matches and even fireworks. Do politicians pre-write these laws waiting for events to justify their introduction.

While many are trying to decipher if the events in Boston constitute a “false flag” attack or not, it should always be remembered there has been a history of these kinds of attacks as pretexts to wars, elimination of political enemies and even persecution as well as draconian laws.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent .. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” — Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” — Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/36134822/The-Safe-Explosives-Act-A-New-Wo

http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/explosionandbombsceneinvestigationNIJ.pdf

http://www.lautenberg.senate.gov/assets/TerrorReport.102010.pdf

http://www.uaemt.org/uploads/explosive_materials.pdf

http://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-us-bomb-data-center.html

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