The Orlando Sentinel posted a story late yesterday about Kevin Brown, arrested at Orlando International Airport Tuesday before he could board a flight to Jamaica.
Brown’s checked luggage contained some questionable materials:
A luggage search, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday by Orange County Sheriff's Detective Kelly Boaz, turned up: - Two galvanized pipes. - End caps with holes drilled in them. - BBs. - A model-rocket igniter. - Batteries. - Lighter fluid. - A lighter. - Two vodka bottles with flammable nitromethane. - Instructions on making explosives.
Brown probably knows how to use them. He is:
...a U.S. Army veteran who recently served as a contractor in Iraq...
FBI agents quoted Brown as telling them:
...he wanted to show friends in Jamaica "how to build explosive devices like he saw in Iraq"...
Sentinel reporters Jim Leusner. Bianca Prieto and Sarah Lundy found out Brown worked for Georgia-based temp agency Lear Siegler International. KBR hired LSI to supply $90,000-a-year mercenaries for Iraq.
We all respect and admire and support the troops who go over to places like Iraq and Afghanistan and risk their lives to kill brown-skinned people so we’ll be free, but one of the down-sides of war throughout history is the mayhem civilians must endure at the hands of the very, very few and entirely unfortunate soldiers and mercenaries who had a particularly rough experience and are unable to readjust to civilian life and rules like no explosives aboard airliners.
So far, it appears that America’s newest mad terrorist bomber is a pure product of George Bush’s, John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s war.
How can any reasonable person support any of them?