[Al Arabiya] A one-legged Chechen boxer injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police said Friday.
| Best kind of red-wire, green-wire incident, since the boomer is maimed for life. Likely experiences phantom limb pain. That can be excruciating. So I'm told. |
The device went off as the man was assembling it in a hotel bathroom on Sept. 10, said Svend Foldager, a police spokesman. The suspect received cuts to his face and no one else was injured.
| Deep cuts to his face. He's no longer attractive even to the 72 virgins. And he can't dance ... |
"We're dealing with a letter bomb. The bomb was completed. Apparently it was of a low-technology type, with a highly explosive substance inside," Foldager told reporters in Copenhagen. "It was filled with small steel pellets to create injuries."
| How many are still lodged in his face? |
He said the device contained triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which served as a detonator for the bombs used by terrorists in the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 people.
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