Well, what to make of this?
Altoon Mayor Matthew Pacifico said Miftakjov is a student at Penn Stat University Altoona.
He is charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe, possessing instruments of crime, prohibited offensive weapons, incendiary devices, recklessly endangering another person, and several drug-related charges.
Officers had been investigating an alleged marijuana growing operation when they discovered the alleged bomb, according to a statement posted on the police department’s Facebook page.
They said the bomb was found inside a suitcase along with “assorted bomb making materials.”
“The bomb was safely deconstructed by experts from the Pennsylvania State Police Bomb Squad,” the statement read.
Unless it’s a nuke or chemical weapons, it is not a “weapon of mass destruction.”
It’s too early to tell, but there’s no mention of his religion, just his Russian nationality. He’s a college student in Altoona now, but it looks like a couple years ago, he was a HS sophomore in Belmont, California:
Sophomores are required to take the ELA (English language arts) portion that is a multiple-choice test along with an essay prompt. The following day sophomores took the mathematics portion with a total of 92 questions.
”I thought the English [section] was easier, but overall the CAHSEE was really boring,” Vladislav Miftakhov said.
He doesn’t seem to update his Facebook page much, which might explain why it says San Carlos (might be where he lived while attending the school in Belmont), rather than western Pennsylvania. But he did have an interesting answer to a question about that time, two and a half years ago:
“Do you believe Bind Laden is dead?”
“No”
It’ll be interesting to see how they caught him. I’m guessing it wasn’t NSA data mining, though.
In this context, the US criminal law statutory definition of WMD is the appropriate one, not one of the International Law definitions. In this context, WMD is correct.
In this context, the US criminal law statutory definition of WMD is the appropriate one, not one of the International Law definitions. In this context, WMD is correct.
I wonder if having a WMD that’s a nuke is a more serious crime than having a conventional explosive WMD that fits in a cigarette packet.
The Fox News article should say *Altoona* Mayor and Penn *State* University. Has copy editing gone out of fashion?
It’ll be interesting to see how they caught him. I’m guessing it wasn’t NSA data mining, though.
According to the Altoona Mirror, the bomb was discovered while searching his apartment for marijuana plants. In other words, random chance.