While the Denver media, and therefore the national media, have lazily pooh-poohed the death in a hotel room at the toney Burnsley Hotel of a Candian national of Somali descent from cyanide poisoning, with the Democratic national convention coming to town next week--even President Bush has been briefed about the incident, as the FBI, Homeland Security and the State Department are involved in the investigation.
The man had one pound of cyanide cystals in his room--even to kill thousands if mixed with sulphuric acid in an enclosed public space like a shopping mall, sports arena or church. Instead, he seems to have only killed himself, but the quetion remains: what on earth was a doing with a quantity that great in room 408 at a classy Denver hotel?
Naturally, his family in Ottawa says he is harmless and was on vacation in Denver. Right--I suppose all of us have packed away a pound or two of cyanide at one time or another, in our vacation luggage.
See how ludicrous this situation is? With the eyes of the world on Denver for the Democratic National Convention, what a perfect time and place to pull off a terrorist hit.
Whether it comes out in the media or not, there is a lot more to this seemingly inocuous news story than has been reported so far. Stay tuned.
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