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Here Is Video of a Pressure-Cooker Bomb Exploding, and Here Is Who Knows How to Build Them

April 16th, 2013Top Story

Here Is Video of a Pressure-Cooker Bomb Exploding, and Here Is Who Knows How to Build Them

By Adam Weinstein

Here Is Video of a Pressure-Cooker Bomb Exploding, and Here Is Who Knows How to Build Them Click to view An unnamed FBI official has told CBS News that at least one of the explosive devices detonated in Boston yesterday appears to have been improvised from a conventional pressure-cooker. Unnamed law enforcement officials don't exactly have the strongest record of credibility in the immediate aftermath of events like these, but federal authorities are well-acquainted with this type of IED.

In mid-2010, the Department of Homeland Security put out a circular, classified "For Official Use Only," warning of their potential use in domestic attacks:

Rudimentary improvised explosive devices (IEDs) using pressure cookers to contain the initiator, switch, and explosive charge (typically ammonium nitrate or RDX) frequently have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Pressure cookers are common in these countries, and their presence probably would not seem out of place or suspicious to passersby or authorities. Because they are less common in the United States, the presence of a pressure cooker in an unusual location such as a building lobby or busy street corner should be treated as suspicious.

The notice (full text below) adds that the failed Times Square bomber used a similar device. And it serves as an update to a 2004 DHS bulletin, also embedded below, citing the existence of such devices in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, and Malaysia.

Why a pressure cooker? As the DHS alert suggests, it's a relatively nondescript item, not likely to arouse immediate suspicion to the untrained eye. It can conceal a good deal more explosive and a larger initiating mechanism than, say, a pipe bomb—whose appearance is obvious enough to draw greater scrutiny. Pipe bombs also can't hold much in the way of shrapnel—nails, BBs, ball bearings—but a pressure cooker makes it easier to carry and conceal such lethal add-ons.

Indeed, these explosives are common enough that some explosive ordnance disposal trainers sell mockup devices to law enforcement. They are familiar to US troops in Afghanistan; the two videos (above and below) are good examples of what a controlled detonation of a pressure-cooker explosive reportedly looks like.
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This does not, however, confirm that the Boston bombs have any specific provenance tied to South Asian terrorist or insurgent groups. This might not have come from a group at all:

  • The lack of clear leads on Day Two suggests that law enforcement has not isolated any chatter from these organized syndicates—even chatter that might not have been specific enough to predict the attack, but whose meaning might become clear in the explosions' aftermath.
  • There were only two bonafide bombs, notwithstanding all the "device" rumors that swirled around Boston and the media yesterday, so while it was a terrible planned crime of opportunity, it ranks low on the spectrum of complex coordinated attacks.
  • The only individual whose physical appearance might be said to resemble that of a South Asian—in actuality, he's reportedly Saudi—was tackled, interrogated, and thus far not found to be connected to the attacks.
  • Downrange American military personnel and the civilian contractors they work with also return home with the technical know-how to create these devices. Sinister knowledge isn't proprietary to an ethnic or religious group.

More on that last point: Improvised shrapnel munitions, whether they are staged in a pressure cooker or not, are easy to build with online directions or books for sale at gun shows. I know—as a teen, I bought an old copy of the Army's "improvised munitions" manual, repackaged as a "CIA Black Book of Dirty Tricks," when I accompanied my father to a gun show more than two decades ago.

These points—and the fact that the attacker's target appears to have chosen for mass casualties, rather than for symbolic political value—suggest (but do not prove) that, whether the perpetrator is a white nationalist or an Islamic jihadi or something else entirely, he or she could be unaffiliated and off the grid.

But deeper speculation on an attacker's ethnicity, creed, or possible affiliation is just that. At this premature stage, we can only say one thing authoritatively about the Boston bombers: They are sick bastards with a basic understanding of physics.

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Woman Buys Old Nintendo Game For $7.99. Turns Out It's Worth $15,000.

April 16th, 2013Top Story

Woman Buys Old Nintendo Game For $7.99. Turns Out It's Worth $15,000.

By Owen Good

It's the archetypal jackpot story of flea markets, pawn shops and antiques roadshows. Someone pays a few dollars for a long-forgotten box at a swap meet and then discovers they have a five-figure rarity on their hands. That describes a North Carolina woman today, who purchased one of the rarest video games ever sold in the United States for $7.99 at a local Goodwill.

Wilder Hamm, the owner of Save Point Video Games in Charlotte N.C., met this woman this morning when he opened his store. He held the box and saw its contents: Stadium Events.

"Oh my God!" Hamm said he blurted, when she showed him the box. "She knew exactly what she had," Hamm told Kotaku. She showed it to him last, after presenting some common titles like 10-Yard Fight and The Karate Kid, before rolling out Stadium Events like a $15,000 punchline.

It worked.

"Normally in this business, we try not to show our cards," Hamm said. "We're not in the business of ripping people off but, you show that kind of excitement, they start expecting a mountain of money."

She may get it. Stadium Events, one of the first exergaming titles, was only released in a test market in the northern United States in 1987. The next year, Nintendo bought the North American rights to its "Family Fun Fitness" mat, which then became the more well known Power Pad. Anything under the Family Fun Fitness brand was supposed to have been destroyed.

The box Hamm saw most certainly wasn't. It's in great shape, and so is the game's instructions and its cart. The box still had the plastic on it, though it had been slit so that the box top could be opened and the contents verified.

"She knew exactly what she had," said Hamm, who held and inspected the cart himself. "When I asked her what she expected to get, she said she expected $7,000 to $15,000, which is on target."

If the plastic had not been cut-if it was truly sealed in the box-Hamm had no idea what it would be worth then. "Our price for the cartridge alone is $2,800, should we have it for any reason." In 2010, a sealed-in-the-box copy of Stadium Events listed on eBay drew a winning bid of $41,300.

The find kicked up a lot of excitement inside Save Point Video Games, but Hamm had to tell the woman his store simply did not have the money to make an appropriate bid on it. (Save Point opened in November.) He offered to sell it on consignment, which would charge a negotiable fee, somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of the sale, but the woman wanted to sell it herself and keep all of the proceeds. She said it will probably be put up on eBay within the next month.

Hamm wished her well and, before she left, asked if he could take a picture of the rarest item ever to come through his door. "I felt honored just to hold it," he said.

"It's given people a lot of hope," Hamm said, referring to this thread on the Nintendo Age forums. "People say that they never find anything at their Goodwill, well, the holy grail has been found there."

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