That Orlando pipe bomb passenger

[malaise]

He is a Jamaican with a green card. Just heard on the news that he said he just wanted to show his friends how to make a bomb since he learned how to do so in Iraq.

A web report says he wanted to exact revenge for his mother's murder in Jamaica.


http://www.wftv.com/news/15775496/detail.html
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Kevin Brown, 32, is an Iraq war veteran who lived in Central Florida, but was born in Jamaica. Brown may have wanted revenge for his mother's murder in Jamaica.

One more mentally ill victim of Bush's war.

http://www.wftv.com/news/15772091/detail.html
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Brown apparently received mental health treatment at a VA hospital and he may have been married to a member of the U.S. military.
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This report was earlier - he was an Iraq vet himself.

[Parche]

1. AQJ

AL-Qaeda Jamaica
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :hi:

[Richard Steele]

3. MON-Quaida?

Al-Rasta? "Al-and-Al Quaida?"

Hey, it doesn't matter what you call it- We have reliable intelligence
that Jamaica is full of BROWN people, so we'd better start dropping
bombs on it, for "just in case". :sarcasm:

[malaise]

4. LOL

:rofl: You should hear the excitement in Jamaica.


http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/6883/26/

Talk about getting facts wrong:
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Meanwhile, the United States media have quoted the FBI as saying the man was apparently homeless.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080402/lead/lead1.html

Holy shit, don't tell me this was just a chillum pipe??
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"He takes medicine and acts outside the norm, depending on how it affects him," said Holt, who said she believed Brown might have been carrying a chillum (ganja) pipe, because he smoked marijuana.

http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/501260.html
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Brown first told authorities he wanted to detonate the materials on a tree stump in Jamaica, but later said he was going to show friends in his home country how to build explosives like he saw in Iraq, according to an FBI criminal complaint.

Federal prosecutors were reviewing Brown's mental health history and trying to determine whether he was ever in Iraq.

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About a gazillion different stories. We'll eventually get the truth.

[kestrel91316]

6. We'll get the maximum information, and PDQ, if we just ship his

a-- off to Gitmo for some waterboarding.

[Richard Steele]

2. Sounds like a whole lot of "reporting" without many FACTS yet.

You know what would be nice to have? A FUNCTIONAL MEDIA. :grr:

[malaise]

5. 100% correct n/t

[malaise]

7. Bomb suspect a sick man

http://jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080402T220000-0500_134153_OBS_BOMB_SUSPECT_A_SICK_MAN.asp
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PERSONS who know Kevin Brown, the Jamaican-born ex-US soldier who was held trying to take bomb parts on an Air Jamaica flight at the Orlando International Airport on Tuesday, yesterday insisted he is not a terrorist but developed mental problems after returning from the war in Iraq.

Brown was discharged from the US Army for medical reasons and sunk into further depression after the murder of his mother, 52-year-old hotelier Sandra McLeod, three years ago.

McLeod was found strangled in a room at a hotel she owned in Negril in 2005. Three men are now before the courts for McLeod's murder.

"He is sick. His actions were not about any strike against Jamaica or the national airline," said a Kingston-based woman who claimed to have raised Brown and who opted not to be named.