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Officials on House Full of Explosives: “Let’s Set It on Fire!”...

Posted by : | On : 03-12-2010 | Comments 10
Officials on House Full of Explosives: “Let’s Set It on Fire!” – Updated
WATCH LIVE! Several local tv outlets will be live streaming (did stream) the controlled burn at 9am pacific time (noon eastern) 11am pacific (2pm eastern).  I’ll be teaching class at that time, so someone let me know if it’s uneventful or, er, eventful. NBC CBS ABC FOX — On November 19, a gardener for Escondido, CA, resident George Djura Jakubec was walking in the backyard when he stepped on something causing it to detonate.  The explosion caused burns and abrasions up one leg, under one arm, and on his head and eyebrows, and he was hospitalized. Officers started searching the yard and home… then quickly retreated when they found numerous explosive compounds and explosive-making materials in and around the house.  According to various reports, items found on the property include: 9-12 pounds (4-6 Kg) of homemade HMTD, PETN, and ETN (which authorities claim may be the largest discovery of its type on US soil…) 13 grenades 9 detonators bags of metal pieces and ball bearings semiautomatic weapons several gallons of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid 50 pounds (23 Kg) of hexamine books about explosives a tracker hidden in currency during bank robberies And then they decided to call off the search because the house was too unsafe for offices.  Who knows what else may be in un-searched corners of the house. Not surprisingly, Jakubec, a naturalized US citizen originally from Serbia, is in jail on $5 million bail and is charged with more...