More about the SC pipe bombers

Posted on August 30, 2007

Michele Malkin had pieced together more bits and pieces of the puzzle of the two young men caught near a Navy base in SC.

At the very end of an article she quoted was this:

Ronald Salaam, 50, knows what it’s like to be in the minority. Black and Muslim, he lives in Goose Creek along Highway 176.

He’s retired from the military and attends a mosque in Charleston.

He was home that Saturday and saw the floodlights and patrol cars at the arrest scene. He tried to check it out, but he couldn’t see much.

“I think it was probably a misunderstanding,” he said of the arrests. He squinted in the evening sun as he looked toward the highway. “Just people with fireworks.”

It wasn’t hard for him to see how it could happen - in Goose Creek, or anywhere, during these times.

“That could happen to anybody,” he said. “That could happen to me.”

OK, let see - one of the very few Muslims living in the area, happens to live on that road where they were arrested, close enough that he could see the police activity? And he repeats the same claim as their lawyer “Just people with fireworks”

Also, the car had a GPS, so they cannot claim to have been lost. Maybe the real destination has now been revealed?

Beyond that, these men have said they were headed for a beach in NC. One beach here in NC, just happens to be on USMC Camp LeJeune. Another is close to the Naval Munitions facility in Southport NC.

What was their real destination and purpose?

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