From: U of S Announcement
Sent: October-25-13 8:15 AM
Wednesday’s precautionary sweep by hazmat officials, of an engineering chemistry lab, was prompted by a student who threatened the potential use of dangerous chemicals. This student was arrested after a search of his home revealed chemicals stolen from the university. He has been charged with theft and remains in police
custody pending a court appearance today.
The student’s name Mohamadmahdi Kowsari. A photograph is attached.
Strike one – stealing chemicals, strike two – making threats, strike three – being named Mohammed. Sorry but that special sauce goes bang too often to be ignored.
SDA is the only major information site to give this guys name as Mohamed (variation thereof), and Iranian background in Saskatchewan that I saw.
They MSM pretty much caved in to the M.B. years ago.
They are afraid of the truth. They can’t handle the truth.
Today’s MSM is a major weak point in Western Civilization, and whether it survives this current clash of Civilizations.
They’ve already surrendered.
Well said. Most of MSM are lefties and are in bed with Islamists to destroy liberal democracy and capitalism.
gordoninkneehill,
I stand corrected. However, based on the limited information presented, I gather that sulphuric acid was the only chemical found in his digs.
Trying to brew nitroglycerine at home as opposed to in a proper laboratory could easily end very, very badly.
Simple H2SO4 gets the hazmat team called out?!?! This is absolutely asinine. H2SO4 is one the the least worrisome chemicals I have around. I realize that “environ mental” regulations have greatly increased the cost of various reagents and, when I was in undergrad university, no-one would have batted an eye if a bottle of H2SO4 disappeared. The stuff is one of the most commonly used industrial inorganic chemicals and, in the 1970’s, was dirt cheap. I recall being told that certain reactions would not be tolerated at the university labs and was given a bunch of empty bottles, told to load them up with the reagents I needed and do the chemistry at home. We went through gallons of H2SO4 every week as it was so useful in cleaning glassware, making charcoal – pour H2SO4 over some sugar and watch the black column of pure carbon arise from the beaker, electrochemical cells, etc.
Nitric acid was widely used as well and the least used strong acid was HCl. At the time we never bothered much with any protective equipment although we did have asbestos gloves to carry hot pieces of glassware around. I had HNO3 yellow stained fingers for quite a while in undergraduate university as none of us ever thought of wearing gloves except when we were working with strong bases — these are a lot more dangerous to biologic tissues than strong acids. I should note at the time that the medical students never wore gloves when they dissected cadavers and complained constantly about the effects of formaldehyde on their hands when they left the dissecting lab.
Almost 100% EtOH used to come in 50 gallon drums and it was important to distinguish between the absolute alcohol, which contained traces of benzene, and the azeotropic mixture which, IIRC, was about 95% EtOH. Whenever we’d have a party, we’d grab some EtOH and first run an NMR on the sample to see if a benzene peak showed up. If it was a clean EtOH/H2O spectrum, the material was pronounced drinkable and became the base of a punch served at university parties.
What this story demonstrates more than anything is the absolutely idiotic lengths to which the safety Nazi’s have taken over in Canadian society. Mere possession of H2SO4 shouldn’t be a crime and, if the H2SO4 was appropriated from a university lab, a simple demand for payment should have been issued with no police involvement. If someone wants to make explosives, this should be allowed as there are a lot of us who post on SDA that engaged in this activity as children. If someone plans on blowing up people with the explosives they make, then they should be shot – very simple solution to a simple problem.
Loki, you’re right. Same rule for directed explosives (firearms). The problem is not guns, it’s people.
Some more background, from Gordon Moore the co-founder of Intel. Moore was a chemist by training, and explained that he got into chemistry originally as a child because a neighbor got a chemistry set — “they had good stuff in them in those days!” — and quickly became skilled at blowing things up. He made nitroglycerin, which he would detonate by putting a drop on a piece of filter paper and striking it with a hammer on an iron anvil. This made a very sharp crack, and would leave his ears ringing for an hour or two. Moore explained that this damaged his hearing, and led to his later relying on a hearing aid. This was around Redwood City, California, where his father was a deputy sheriff. At one point, officials found a collection of tools somewhere that looked like they were for cracking open safes, and a little bottle of yellowish liquid, which had them concerned. As Moore told it, his father called him in on the case (he was still an adolescent) and he tested a drop of the liquid with his filter-paper technique, and it blew. The deputies were then worried about how to dispose of the nitro, but Moore stepped forward eagerly — “I’ll take care of that.” (He held up both hands to us, in the proud sign of the successful explosives hobbyist: All digits present.) They also made rockets, he said, but good rockets were difficult — “it was much easier to blow things up.”
Later at Cal Tech when he was a grad student in chemistry, someone did a survey and found that 80% of the Chem grad students got into it via fireworks and explosives. Amazing!
If these jihadis could get laid without strings/robes/chains attached 99 % of this allahu-ackbar would cease .
Come on sisters let your veil drop !!!!!!!!
Johnny was a chemist
Now Johnny is no more
‘Cause what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4……
Oh no another disaffected youth found in Saskatchewan. Why didn’t the Saskatchewan racists give him more opportunity?
Was he driving an Aston Martin? Was he living in a 10,000sq/ft home with a $100,000/ year government paycheck for being born in a Middle Eastern county?
No he was not, you get what you deserve!
“Today’s MSM is a major weak point in Western Civilization, and whether it [sic] survives this current clash of Civilizations.”
A far more serious question, given most people’s blind reliance on the Western MSM is, will the rest of us survive this current clash of Civilizations? ‘Too many low-information, know-nothings around.
“These are conditions that regulations never envision. It’s simply presumed that the average person wouldn’t have the technology or materials required to experiment in these areas.”
Dave Minnaar, radiological expert with Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality on 17 year-old David Hahn’s 1995 attempt to construct a breeder reactor in his mother’s garden shed using americium from smoke detectors, thorium from gas lantern mantles, lithium from batteries, and radium from clock dials. The results are buried at a radioactive containment site in the Utah desert.
I’d wager, the reason the authorities acted so quickly on this incident was that this Iranian was already on their radar as a person of interest.
As the Nat. Post’s Stewart Bell and various security experts interviewed on SunnewsTV point out, Canada has branches of most of the world’s terrorist groups living here.
Stewart Bell’s articles may be found on a search at the Nat. Post website.
‘If someone plans on blowing up people with the explosives they make, then they should be shot’
I think it will eventually come to that even if this case turns out to be nothing at all.
‘Treason’ and what other can be used to describe people who wish to destroy their own country and its citizens, will eventually wear our patience thin and a harsher response will be required.