re: #19 Shiplord Kirel

A fellow Army vet. Well, hell and damn.

I didn’t want to mention it earlier but the design of the bomb did suggest someone with some kind of professional experience or training. The device was sophisticated and probably very lethal, but had been made with relatively simple and widely available components. The latter included ordinary sporting goods store gunpowder, a simple “line of sight” detonator like a garage door opener, and the especially vile addition of rat poison. The latter was probably included not to poison the victims but because it typically contains an anti-coagulant. In theory at least, this would have made it more likely that the injured would bleed to death.

I believe this disgusting practice originated with Palestinian terrorist groups.