I would dominate a whole city, with martial law? A whole system? Just from pushing some powder and bolts and a small ignition with a timer into a pressure cooker? I could really? dominate all of them? even someones third leg? Amazing.
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Anonymous2013-05-16 0:14
FBI agents visit Saudi student over pressure cooker for rice dish
Panic over 'homemade bomb'
FOR COOKING: Mr Talai al Rouki was carrying the pressure cooker to a friend's house.
TWO pressure cookers almost forced the US into a lockdown again. In both instances, the people involved were Saudis.
One Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police.
In the other instance, a Saudi man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker.
In the first case, Mr Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend's house, the Daily Mail reported.
The FBI are increasing vigilant about "pressure cooker" homemade bombs after the Boston bombers used one to make an explosive.
The Saudi journal, Oukaz, reported on the story of the Saudi student who had FBI agent come to his home, following a tip-off from neighbours that he was seen moving about with a pressure cooker bomb.
While armed agents surrounded his apartment block, other agents, asked a "nervous" Mr al Rouki they could come in to question him.
"They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the US and what I do in my spare time," the Saudi newspaper quoted him as saying.
Officers said two days earlier that a woman had seen him walking out of his apartment carrying the pressure cooker pot, which was described as "bullet coloured".
The young student showed them his pressure cooker and explained to them that he used it to make a rice dish.
An FBI agent said: "You need to be more careful moving around with such things, sir."
Focus of attention
Mr al Rouki has become a focus of attention now in the Saudi press.
According to reports in a Saudi newspaper, the FBI are increasingly vigilant about "pressure cooker" homemade bomb and have a keen eye on Arabs who reside in the US.
In the other case, Mr Nasser Almarzooq, the nephew of the man who was arrested at the airport, said it was all a misunderstanding about a device he wanted for cooking, AP reported.
Hussain Al Khawahir was being held in Detroit on allegations of lying to Customs and Border Protection agents and of using a passport with a missing page. He was arrested on Saturday.
Mr Almarzooq said he had asked his uncle to bring him the pressure cooker so he could make lamb.
The college student said two pressure cookers he bought in the US were "not good at all", and said the one available in Saudi Arabia are of higher quality.