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2 Egyptian Pilots Coincidentally Caught w/Manhattan Bomb Case

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Coincidences will happen. Crazy coincidences. Like Muslim luggage thieves who fly away to Egypt and are never heard from again. But there's no reason to suspect terrorism.

The FBI has identified the two men seen on surveillance camera taking a suitcase that had held one of the explosive devices that failed to detonate earlier this month in Manhattan, according to law enforcement officials.

Authorities had previously said the men were not considered suspects in the attempted bombing and appear to have removed the device from the bag on Manhattan's 27th street in order to lug away the suitcase.

The two men are believed to work for an Egyptian airline and are presumed to have returned to Egypt, officials said.

Authorities say the men picked up the bag shortly after it was left on 27th street on the evening of Sept. 17 by Ahmad Rahami, an American citizen from Afghanistan. Rahami has been charged with a number of purported crimes related to that bomb, another that exploded on 23rd street the same night and several other devices discovered in New Jersey, most of which failed to detonate. At least 29 people were injured in the 23rd street blast.

NYPD chief of counterterrorism James Waters said last week the men who took the bag were "very, very lucky" after perhaps unknowingly handling the explosive device.

So the working theory is that two Egyptian airline employees happened to be wandering around Manhattan stealing bags. And they chose that very particular bag which a Muslim terrorist had made use of for his bomb.

And then they left America.

Yes, we are very lucky indeed. Considering the kind of insane lies that our counterterrorism officials either believe or claim to believe.

And there's no larger plot here. Just lone wolves. And some very lucky random Egyptian bag thieves

Surveillance video shows Rahami rolling a suitcase down a Manhattan street, then abandoning it on the sidewalk where that unexploded device was found, authorities said.

A few minutes later, two men pass by the luggage and appear to admire it, police said. They then remove a pressure cooker from the luggage, leave the pressure cooker on the sidewalk and walk away with the luggage, police said.

A few minutes later. That certainly is quite a coincidence. But we know there can't be a connection because Muslim terrorism doesn't exist.

"They're not in any jeopardy of being arrested," Jim Watters, chief of the New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit, said last week. "We have no reason to believe they're connected."

I can't think of one reason. Not one.


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