Photograph courtesy of KEVIN BARTRAM: GALVESTON COUNTY DAILY NEWSStory here.
A Texas City apartment complex was evacuated yesterday to allow a bomb squad to detonate explosives found in an apartment occupied by 21 year-old Matthew RUGO and his roommate, Curtis JETTON, also 21.. The two men were reportedly making triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, (a/k/a “Mother of Satan”), a favorite home-made type explosive material used by Islamic homicide bombers.
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Keep in mind that TATP was the explosive, which the two men were manufacturing in the apartment when the explosion occured. One of the men was killed.
Why TATP? It's homemade and highly unstable. Obviously there was no reason for TATP, or for any explosives, to be in the possession of two young undergrads. Certainly no need for a large quantity. What, besides terrorism, could be the motive?
The survivor has been charged with giving false information to authorities.
The investigation is continuing. Sure, some will dismiss it as another of those "Darwin Awards" stunts by bored imbeciles, but I suspect there was a sinister motive, as we saw with the Hinrichs failed terrorist attempt last October, which also involved TATP explosives.
