Man in quiet California town focus of terror hysteria. This article starts off innocently enough(just like Larry Coppello's Friday..)
Washington - Larry Copello went to work at his tiny machine shop in a small town nestled in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, having no idea Friday would be no ordinary day.
The telephone began ringing. Dozens of news organizations in the United States and around the world had questions.
Suddenly, Copello found himself at the centre of the terrorism hysteria that began Wednesday in the southern African country of Namibia, swept Thursday through Germany, and eventually led back to his little garage shop in Sonora, a town of 4,000 people near Yosemite National Park.
We then find out:
..The scare started with a fake bomb made four years ago at Copello's company by none other than his then 80-year- old mother-in-law, Copello revealed in a telephone interview Friday with the German Press Agency dpa.
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Copello's company is in the business of making suitcases that contain detonators, batteries and wires that are designed to look like bombs. His firm of three employees makes the devices for government agencies who use the dummies to train security personnel on how to spot suspicious items in X-ray scanners at airports.
But when one of his devices was left behind at Namibia's Windhoek airport among luggage bound for Munich, it sparked a terrorism scare. That scare hit hard in Germany, which had already been on high alert over unrelated intelligence warnings that a possible terrorist attack was in the works.
And:
"I am overwhelmed with all the talking to people about this," he told dpa. "What I don't understand is the power of the Internet and how one little thing can be all over the Earth. That to me is kind of frightening."
When Copello, who said he doesn't even use email, was told of one Internet headlines in Germany that read "The mysterious suitcase of Larry Copello," he replied: "Oh, my God."
At first, I thought his surprise was in reaction his fake bomb caught up in a terror scare. Are there any real bombs ever used? If there are real bombs involved, it's usually called "terrorism," then, right?
But now, it seems to be his shock is purely over global reach of the Internet. I think he had no idea that his company would be so "Globally Outed" (Not to say they were guilty of anything, mind you..) in connection this week's Namibia/Germany scare. Maybe it was a realization that, for a few news cycles maybe, his anonymity is gone, and that a whole lot of people, who he doesn't and can never fully know of, know who he is, where he is, and enough to about him to form an opinion with the little information they have.
To a man decoupled enough from technology to not have email (Email, for God's sake!), the awareness that people worldwide were discussing him could be unsettling, off-putting, or full blown terrifying. Larry Copello, meet the Internet; Internet, meet Larry Copello..
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At least two dead after shooting in Russia’s Chechen parliament. When Russia storms in and shoots up the place, we'll join CNN International for Breaking News and continuing coverage..
"I'll Take 'Official Stories Gone To Crap' For 400 Please, Alex.."
"What are the 7/7 Bombings?" Germain Lindsay doesn't sound like a Suicide Bomber to me, either. Excerpts/Italics:
Mr. Fayad Patel was employed as a customer service assistant by London Underground and was on duty at a barrier at the end of a ‘gate line’ near the main ticket hall in King’s Cross underground station. Mr Patel, sometime between 08:15 and 08:45 was approached by a man he later identified as being Germain Lindsay – who, we are told, shortly afterwards murdered 26 people on a tube train travelling between King’s Cross and Russell Square.
According to Mr. Patel’s evidence to the court, Mr. Lindsay told Mr Patel that he “wanted to speak to the “duty Manager”…..then later “It’s something very important.” Patel had earlier given this testimony in 2006 under oath, and here repeated it without change. Patel gave an equally startling and unexpected reply to Lindsay: “Well, we’re quite busy at the moment because of, obviously, with the station control.” – The what?
Mr Patel described to the Inquest how delays on the Northern Line, on National Rail and perhaps elsewhere that morning meant that “the entire Tube gate line area was congested and we’d implemented a station control to try and minimise the flow of passengers.” (Empasis author, not me)This involved shutting escalators off, shutting the main entrance and exit points and then periodically opening them as and when appropriate. Therefore unusual controls were being imposed on the main concourse at King’s Cross. Passengers were being delayed and, as Mr Patel says later, getting angry and “abusing” staff.
The Police were also coming into the station..
Q. Do you know why they were there?
A. I believe they were just passing through or they were going to a training course or something, and they heard about — and they came to help.
Q. What had they heard about?
A. They had just heard that there’s some kind of problem or some kind of power failure or — at King’s Cross.
..
So this is the scene confronting the ‘suicide bomber’ Lindsay as he arrives at King’s Cross underground station on the morning of 7/7.
And:
The question arises…. What goes through the mind of a suicide bomber during his final hour on earth?
We already know from Inquest evidence given previously during the week that he arrived early in the car park at Luton station, dozed off while waiting for the others in his car and got given a parking ticket while asleep.
That’s one relaxed suicide bomber.
Now, inside King’s Cross, he sees hordes of angry people being prevented from moving around the station and he has something “very important” to say to the station Duty Manager. (Mr Patel found it very unusual that Lindsay would use this specific term for the man in charge. Normally people ask for ‘the foreman’ or ‘the supervisor’)
And:
The obvious point here is that the idea of a SUICIDE BOMBER wanting to approach a station manager to sort out an issue, however serious, is utterly, utterly ridiculous.
To any reasonable person this fact alone should prove that Germain Lindsay was definitely NOT a suicide bomber.
Great article. Read the whole thing. There's so much I didn't include.. I've always thought 7/7 was horseshit--Terror drills happening where terror just so happens to also occur? Sure.. I wonder what the statistics are for such combination drill-into-real-event-events?
This is also my introduction to this site, so I'll probably be posting much from here at a later time.
Mr. Fayad Patel was employed as a customer service assistant by London Underground and was on duty at a barrier at the end of a ‘gate line’ near the main ticket hall in King’s Cross underground station. Mr Patel, sometime between 08:15 and 08:45 was approached by a man he later identified as being Germain Lindsay – who, we are told, shortly afterwards murdered 26 people on a tube train travelling between King’s Cross and Russell Square.
According to Mr. Patel’s evidence to the court, Mr. Lindsay told Mr Patel that he “wanted to speak to the “duty Manager”…..then later “It’s something very important.” Patel had earlier given this testimony in 2006 under oath, and here repeated it without change. Patel gave an equally startling and unexpected reply to Lindsay: “Well, we’re quite busy at the moment because of, obviously, with the station control.” – The what?
Mr Patel described to the Inquest how delays on the Northern Line, on National Rail and perhaps elsewhere that morning meant that “the entire Tube gate line area was congested and we’d implemented a station control to try and minimise the flow of passengers.” (Empasis author, not me)This involved shutting escalators off, shutting the main entrance and exit points and then periodically opening them as and when appropriate. Therefore unusual controls were being imposed on the main concourse at King’s Cross. Passengers were being delayed and, as Mr Patel says later, getting angry and “abusing” staff.
The Police were also coming into the station..
Q. Do you know why they were there?
A. I believe they were just passing through or they were going to a training course or something, and they heard about — and they came to help.
Q. What had they heard about?
A. They had just heard that there’s some kind of problem or some kind of power failure or — at King’s Cross.
..
So this is the scene confronting the ‘suicide bomber’ Lindsay as he arrives at King’s Cross underground station on the morning of 7/7.
And:
The question arises…. What goes through the mind of a suicide bomber during his final hour on earth?
We already know from Inquest evidence given previously during the week that he arrived early in the car park at Luton station, dozed off while waiting for the others in his car and got given a parking ticket while asleep.
That’s one relaxed suicide bomber.
Now, inside King’s Cross, he sees hordes of angry people being prevented from moving around the station and he has something “very important” to say to the station Duty Manager. (Mr Patel found it very unusual that Lindsay would use this specific term for the man in charge. Normally people ask for ‘the foreman’ or ‘the supervisor’)
And:
The obvious point here is that the idea of a SUICIDE BOMBER wanting to approach a station manager to sort out an issue, however serious, is utterly, utterly ridiculous.
To any reasonable person this fact alone should prove that Germain Lindsay was definitely NOT a suicide bomber.
Great article. Read the whole thing. There's so much I didn't include.. I've always thought 7/7 was horseshit--Terror drills happening where terror just so happens to also occur? Sure.. I wonder what the statistics are for such combination drill-into-real-event-events?
This is also my introduction to this site, so I'll probably be posting much from here at a later time.
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