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Re: Booby traps, but no anarchist writings



Lou Poppler <[email protected]> writes:

> >From today's NYT
> http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/ny-explosives.html
> 
>           [N] EW YORK -- A Bronx man who booby-trapped his
>               apartment with homemade bombs accidentally blew his
>           left hand off Thursday morning, the police said,
> [snip]
>           Just what Saperstein -- who has a criminal record dating
>           back to 1983 for weapons possession, disorderly conduct
>           and drug possession -- was doing with all the explosives
>           puzzled investigators.
> 
>           "There's no indication he was involved in any group,"
>           said a police investigator, who spoke on the condition
>           of anonymity. "There were no rantings or anarchist
>           writings of any kind."
> [snip]
> [end of quoted material]
> 
> Good thing this guy didn't have a folder of old cypherpunks messages on a
> hard drive!  Then he'd *really* be in trouble I guess.

They don't mention whether he learned how to make bombs on the Internet,
which means they haven't ruled out this possibility either.

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