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CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Students were transported in a Virginia school bus carrying inert explosives left by the CIA, officials said. The explosives were discovered in the engine, only after the Loudoun County Public Schools bus was undergoing maintenance. "The CIA assured Loudoun officials the training material used in this exercise is stable and posed no danger to students on board the bus," it said in a statement. The school district said the inert explosives, left behind by a CIA canine team, were inside a container and part of them apparently fell out into the engine space.
Nobody died. Laugh.
...unfortunately not...
If they're intert, they're not explosives. They are imitation explosives.
So fucking what. Kids leave inert gum and pencils on the bus and no one reports about that.
You've never left shit behind after doing a field exercise. They were inerts.
They were investigating the potential for bomb-sniffing schoolchildren.
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Yeah. And the next time you travel, if the pilot is hammered but manages to get you there alive there's nothing wrong with that right? No harm, no foul?
Posts elsewhere concluded it was C4.
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Yeah. "Inert explosives" is a misnomer.
The bus needed to get over 50 to arm them any ways
How would C4 be inert? In that it's not presently exploding?
The bomb sniffing dogs failed their training then?
"Hey Bobby, look what I found under the seat! It says, 'Area fifty one time portal module 7'. And a button! I wonder what happens if I pr [ZZZZERRRRRP]..."
Table-ized A.I.
The story is NOT an April Fool's Joke -- it really happened!
not presently exploding
Just like the North Korean nuclear arsenal.
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you should have also mentioned it's a poison !! Inhaling dihydrogen monoxide in your lung kills you in minutes.
Haha, I see the flaw in their terrorist plot.
If they can't even keep a hold of their own supplies while in a controlled environment....scary.
Except that the explosives aren't inert, they're live, and primed, and wired into the speedometer of the school bus, and will detonate if the bus drops under 50mph, and only a movie hero who spews witty catch phrases like "whoa" and "dude" can save the children.
Yep, I'd download that.
You can cut chunks of C4 off and burn it like sterno to heat a can of beans. You can shoot C4 point blank with a rifle and it won't explode. So, yeah, it's explosively inert as a chunk of wood is... until you add the high voltage blasting charge.
Had it exploded they could just blame in on ISIS and move on.
Accidentally left after a training exercise? Or, was it just a foiled "ISIS" false flag attack meant to manufacture more consent for war? Are we just going to ignore that's part of the CIA's job description?
If they actually just got so sloppy as to leave behind training materials, well then someone's head should be rolling soon... and video taped, staring a British guy claiming to be a terrorist.
Shouldn't this be the FBI's job?
Yeah I know this is a joke anyway.
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Practice exercise is filmed, then used to simulate a false flag "terrorism event". The non-April Fool part? We get to lose more of our freedoms. Yay!!!
...until they explode.
I have two kids in Loudoun County schools and I got the email last night. Not funny.
Autorized to collect Foreign Intelligence, have NO police powers, not authorized to collect intelligence inside USA
What are they doing with explosives in the first place? Why would an intelligence collecting service need
bomb sniffing dogs? Whay are there ANY CIA operatives in this country at all?
Why don't ANY news services ask any of these questions?
Yikes!
For the school kids safety did they leave live gasoline in the engine compartment too?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
an ineptly failed false flag operation intended to justify continued war against brown people
I would imagine that if *I* left an inert explosive on a school bus after a training exercise I had that I would not get off as lightly as these people in the CIA just did.
I also noticed that the wording is such that the implication is that these were not in fact explosives but they stopped at saying that. If they were not explosives then they would say that these were not explosives. Since they were explosives then they have to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal by calling them "inert".
I guess that everything is "inert" until it isn't. What would they call an explosive that was no longer 'inert"? Wouldn't they call that "hot gasses"?
This is a problem and people should lose their job over this, or at least get a few days without pay to think about what they did.
One question, doesn't the CIA have enough money to just *buy* a school bus for training like this?
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leaves explosives lots of places. Syria, Libya, Iraq, South America...
Don't you just love a country that uses our kids as a training exercise. Nothing worrisome about that at all!
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used busses only cost about a grand or two but they needed to borrow busses from a school district?
But those a "bom"s, this is clearly a bomb, totally different thing.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
But if they exploded, would CIA take responsibility, or put the blame on terrorism?