American Arrested For Hotel Bombings in Bolivia
In a curious episode given the tensions between the United States and Bolivia, an American is in custody in La Paz for allegedly committing two hotel bombings.
An American man and his Uruguayan girlfriend were arrested Wednesday after bombs severely damaged two low-budget hotels in Bolivia's capital, killing two people and injuring at least seven.
Police said they believe the pair had "religious motives" for the attack and had plans to bomb the Chilean consulate in La Paz on Saturday, according to Isaac Pemintel, the national police chief.
Police initially said the blasts were "typical of terrorist crime," and President Evo Morales lost no time in denouncing them as an attack on Bolivia's democracy.
"This American was putting bombs in hotels," Morales said. "The U.S. government fights terrorism, and they send us terrorists."
But other Bolivian officials discounted terrorism as a motive, saying the American appeared to be mentally ill.
The possibility of mind control is not far from the surface given the reported circumstances of this case.
"The possible motives behind these attacks are incomprehensible. There don't seem to be any concrete objectives other than causing deaths," Deputy Interior Minister Rafael Puente told Radio Fides...
Police identified the suspects as Claudio Lestad, 24, of New Orleans, and Alda Ribeiro, 40, of Uruguay, though authorities said Lestad was carrying altered documents and uses various names, including "Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo."
Lestad, who was born in California, registered himself at the hotel as a lawyer of Saudi Arabian nationality but also calls himself a priest, Pemintel said...
La Paz district attorney Jorge Gutierrez said the suspects entered Bolivia from Argentina and carried out attacks in other Bolivian cities but caused no injuries. They also tried to bomb an ATM machine in northern Argentina, police said...
In the days before the blasts, the Uruguayan woman had been giving away promotional calendars to businesses in La Paz, with a picture of herself naked and a cardboard box of explosives perched on her knee, according to Marta Silva, who owns a store across from the second hotel.
The calendars offered the "sale and export of explosives, fireworks and liquor," with a phone number and post office box in the Bolivian city of Potosi.
Nude calendars featuring the "sale and export of explosives, fireworks and liquor" as part of a religiously motivated op?
If such a religion existed, I'm sure that I would have been a member at one point or another.
No sale.
The nutcase angle in a politically motivated attack is the classic mind control tell.
Don't forget Mark David Chapman.
An American man and his Uruguayan girlfriend were arrested Wednesday after bombs severely damaged two low-budget hotels in Bolivia's capital, killing two people and injuring at least seven.
Police said they believe the pair had "religious motives" for the attack and had plans to bomb the Chilean consulate in La Paz on Saturday, according to Isaac Pemintel, the national police chief.
Police initially said the blasts were "typical of terrorist crime," and President Evo Morales lost no time in denouncing them as an attack on Bolivia's democracy.
"This American was putting bombs in hotels," Morales said. "The U.S. government fights terrorism, and they send us terrorists."
But other Bolivian officials discounted terrorism as a motive, saying the American appeared to be mentally ill.
The possibility of mind control is not far from the surface given the reported circumstances of this case.
"The possible motives behind these attacks are incomprehensible. There don't seem to be any concrete objectives other than causing deaths," Deputy Interior Minister Rafael Puente told Radio Fides...
Police identified the suspects as Claudio Lestad, 24, of New Orleans, and Alda Ribeiro, 40, of Uruguay, though authorities said Lestad was carrying altered documents and uses various names, including "Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo."
Lestad, who was born in California, registered himself at the hotel as a lawyer of Saudi Arabian nationality but also calls himself a priest, Pemintel said...
La Paz district attorney Jorge Gutierrez said the suspects entered Bolivia from Argentina and carried out attacks in other Bolivian cities but caused no injuries. They also tried to bomb an ATM machine in northern Argentina, police said...
In the days before the blasts, the Uruguayan woman had been giving away promotional calendars to businesses in La Paz, with a picture of herself naked and a cardboard box of explosives perched on her knee, according to Marta Silva, who owns a store across from the second hotel.
The calendars offered the "sale and export of explosives, fireworks and liquor," with a phone number and post office box in the Bolivian city of Potosi.
Nude calendars featuring the "sale and export of explosives, fireworks and liquor" as part of a religiously motivated op?
If such a religion existed, I'm sure that I would have been a member at one point or another.
No sale.
The nutcase angle in a politically motivated attack is the classic mind control tell.
Don't forget Mark David Chapman.
posted by Effwit at 11:45 AM
8 Comments:
Never could understand why folks called it Reagonomics - wasn't it Bushonomics; the same scam as now, only a bit milder?
The ol' Gopper Gipper was outmaneuvered and nudged outta da loop from the day he was shot and it became the Bush presidency for all intents and purposes.
I think too much is being made of the schism between Bush Sr and Jr. I see continuity in formula and little else. The schism shit, whether truthy or falsey remains a narrative to mask...yes, thugocratic continuity. And a successful one at that.
And it is neato with bin Laden's as Bush buddies and the Hinkely's as Bush buddies.
Continuity. The myth that the electorate can completely change things each election cycle. The juice just crawls below the choppy surface and lets the Hollywoodish tempest rage up above. True Juice would never leave its fortunes to the fickleness of vox populi...no matter how sophisticated we get at herding it.
Bush & Buddies be da continuity - well ever since....
M1:
You be the man when it comes to the understandin' of economic skullduggery, viz Dutch Sandwiches, etc.
Speaking of Dutch, the consensus view in Washington is that Reaganomics represented traditional conservatism, i.e. tax and spending cuts. Except defense cuts.
Bush Senior jacked up taxes--albeit reluctantly--to pay for gooper priorities, like even more robust defense spending.
But Junior is the worst combination of the two. Tax cuts and spending increases.
You, no doubt, know how many ways the received wisdom about these things is wrong. But I don't.
The Bush I/Bush II schism looks real in international relations. 'Nuff said.
Bin Laden and Hinckley and every other marginal character everywhere are friends or at least business associates of the Bushes.
The myth that the electorate can completely change things each election cycle.
How true, most things stay the same no matter which party is in temporary command of the White House and Capitol. This is for the simple reason that the vast majority of government affairs are conducted by the unchanging civil service. Every President finds this out to their great disappointment.
Having said that, though, Bush has perverted the system pretty badly.
...conducted by the unchanging civil service......and there you have it. Got to scope the institutions to get a whiff of where the putrid tides are twistin' and turnin' to.
Bush Senior jacked up taxes--albeit reluctantly--to pay for gooper priorities, like even more robust defense spending.....sure, but the net flows and the employment of massive debt accruement as a tool to transfer money from Eater pockets to Big Cap pockets were the same. If I borrow 100 grand or 99500 on the QT from your kids' college savings for my new Aston Martin...well I think you'd be pissed off in either case if you caught me in your Skoda. I see things as just completely unbridled now - the makeup and the manners are gone.
The Bush I/Bush II schism looks real in international relation......oh sure, the schism is very likely there and real. But when I skim over the net flows of da heavy bucks I see Jr doing the same shit but with insolent and reckless abandonment. Do we discreetly pick the gymlocker padlock and make accomplices out of the janitor by buying him off with a Twinkie and a Gatorade or do we blow the lock with 10 lbs of C4 and poke out the janitor's eyes?
Now tell us, what be the deal with you and tea?
M1:
I knew that you would know the skinny about all that econ stuff that goes over my head.
Your illustration about the Bush IR "schism" being only a matter of magnitude conveys the truth better than a thousand think-tankers could on their best day.
The tea ceremony means nothing....and everything.
Only in the harshness of the cold winter can the plum tree blossom.
LMAO
Ya know, I got a message near directly from ol' Leonard Cohen in his temple retreat outside of LA back when the earthquake hit. *X's wife phoned me and said she had called him up at the temple right after the quake to make sure he was OK.
"Hey Leonard, r u OK?", she asked
"Yes X, I'm OK. I didn't lose my Lotus position"
Such is the way of tea, non?
*X will be revealed per email.
M1:
Cool. Good story.
Cohen does not live anymore at the Mt Baldy Center. His teacher Joshu Sasaki just died a year or so ago.
And yes, that's precisely the way of tea.
My lucky guess.
Mt Baldy Center? Man, that's more than I ever knew. Maybe I should take X up on her rain check offer for a 4 day visit with her and her 300 cats and learn a thing or two about tea, bidis, and getting plastered with Jack on her porch.
M1:
It's an hour or so outside L.A.
In the San Gabriel or San Bernardino Mtns.
You would probably be bored at first, but give a muddy lake a few days of calmness, and it gets clear and pure again.
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