A Non-Muslim Just Carried Live IEDs Onto a Train, and the Media Didn’t Report It
In fact, Panasenko was apparently as unsuspecting as they come. According to his Facebook page, the 27 year-old lived in Jersey City but was originally from Kiev, Ukraine. And, from his LinkedIn page, it was found that he attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick and worked at High 5 Games — a company that makes casino games — as a mathematician.
Now, it is fair to say that Panasenko did not make headlines because he was caught before his improvised explosive devices (IEDs) could detonate, and technically, he did not cause any harm. However, both the Underwear Bomber and the Times Square Car-Bomber had made headlines across America — for days, as I can vividly recall — despite the fact that their attempts at terrorizing innocents, too, had been just as unsuccessful. However, unlike Panasenko, they were the kind of terrorists who the media wants you to put a face to.
Aside from being charged with having “two destructive devices, specifically improvised explosive devices (IEDs) constructed from a cylinder containing Pyrodex (black powder)” that he carried onto a train leaving Hoboken, N.J. to Suffern, N.Y. on April 7, Panasenko, according to the criminal complaint, is also charged with “recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage to a building which normally contains 25 or more persons by constructing the explosive devices.”
According to Jersey City Police Deputy Chief, Peter Nalbach, the Jersey City Policy Department’s Bomb Squad had responded to Panasenko’s home after receiving information from the FBI and the NYPD. Once they got to his home, they also found materials that were like used to make an explosive device.
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