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Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner
HonorPoncaCityDotCom writes "AP reports that while confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could design a vacuum cleaner. After all KSM earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, the agency had no long-term plan for him, but might thought he might someday prove useful and might even stand trial one day and for that, he'd need to be sane. They were concerned that his long imprisonment might do so much psychological damage that he would no longer be useful as source for information. "We didn't want them to go nuts," said a former senior CIA official. So, using schematics from the Internet as his guide, Mohammed began re-engineering one of the most mundane of household appliances. It remains a mystery how far Mohammed got with his designs or whether the plans still exist and even Mohammed's military lawyer, Jason Wright, says he is prohibited from discussing his client's interest in vacuums. 'It sounds ridiculous, but answering this question, or confirming or denying the very existence of a vacuum cleaner design, a Swiffer design, or even a design for a better hand towel would apparently expose the U.S. government and its citizens to exceptionally grave danger,' says Wright. So now, says Doug Mataconis, if you happen to start seeing ads for the CIA's revolutionary new home cleaning device, you'll know where it came from." Sounds perfect for In-Q-Tel.
He was tortured to get a confession and when they read it, it was the plan for a vacuum cleaner...
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
If the vacuum starts looking like a giant metal guy with a glowing center light maybe they should rethink this idea.
...his design sucked.
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It's interesting how many evil geniuses have an advanced degree.
I think that if you were to overlap all of the schematics, you would find that they are in fact for a mechanized suit designed to break out of jail and also prevent shrapnel from entering his heart, via a magnetic push.
He admitted to his role in 9/11 several months before being captured, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
9/11 and that interview were clearly an amazing publicity stunt to generate hype for his vacuum cleaner design. Slashvertisement was just the next step in his plan. Next week, he'll open up the kickstarter project and the money will start rolling in like an avalanche.
Call me pessimistic, but I expect delays in any delivery date he sets.
All in all, it seems like the ???????????? before PROFIT was "get waterboarded". Who knew?
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Uh... I'm not sure if it's some form of intentional humor, but there are at least four errors in your post, including one in your correction:
It's set up us the bomb. You lose. Turn in your geek card.
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