Iranian Grad Student at Georgia Tech Severely Injured Making Homemade Bombs
This story has gotten very little play in the mainstream press but the details raise some serious red flags.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Wanted: Answers On Iranian Grad Student at Georgia Tech’s Homemade Bombs
Conservative news watchers want more answers on why an Iranian grad student at George Tech nearly burned himself to death making homemade bombs inside his apartment.
The incident happened in early February, but gained new steam over the weekend after Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit and Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller posted items on the explosion, which sent Saamer Akhshabi to the hospital with third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body.
“Sounds suspicious,” Reynolds wrote.
Treacher posited: “Why was he making them? I have no idea, because this only made the local news in Atlanta and there was no follow-up. Nobody’s curious about why this guy was making firebombs in his apartment.”
According to First Coast News, “Atlanta police (say) … lighter fluid and a charred pillow and mattress were found inside the apartment, along with the Molotov cocktail and several plastic bottles filled with gasoline and kerosene.
“Akhshabi was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital,” the report states. “His biography on Georgia Tech’s website says he’s a PhD student in the school’s College of Computing and attended the University of Tehran in his native Iran before coming to Georgia.”
While the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Homeland Security were notified, the Atlanta Business Journal claimed two days after the explosion there was “no criminal intent.” Hhhmmm.
Treacher pointed out that whatever Akhshabi was doing, he definitely wasn’t going to lob Molotov cocktails at President Obama. The student’s Twitter account included several Tweets touting how wonderful Obamacare is.
“According to Akhshabi’s personal page at the Georgia Tech site, he’s ‘interested in Internet evolution, evolutionary network modeling, and adaptive video streaming.’ He forgot ‘making improvised incendiary devices,’” Treacher quipped. “Why was he doing that? How did he burn himself so badly? Just goofing around?”
Wanted: Answers On Iranian Grad Student at Georgia Tech’s Homemade Bombs (The College Fix)
Comments
How, uhm, interesting.
It seems to me that maybe the US government should stop issuing visas to incoming people from Islamist-governed countries until the acts of Islamic terrorism have ceased worldwide for a period of 20 years. Also, that those already here from those countries be the people that the NSA is concentrating its bugging and spying operations on,and that those from those countries be the focus of TSA searches. Any heavily veiled Moslem woman or any Moslem man who will not submit to a search by the TSA should be taken into custody and interrogated and denied the privilege of getting on any commercial aircraft until they are very,very thoroughly investigated and cleared of any taint of terrorist sympathies whatever. Failing that, EVERYONE in the NSA and TSA gets trained by Israeli experts on how THEY have completely prevented acts of airborne terrorism and most domestic terrorism so we can start to prevent them HERE.What we are doing now has not worked. Under Obama,we have had numerous mass murders by Islamic terrorists, and the few terrorists whose attempts were prevented were caught by alert CIVILIANS.