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BY: Keenan Crow + POSTED: 8/25/16 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Kentucky State Police Post 10 have issued a warning that IEDs have been found in Harlan County. Back in June, OutdoorHub published an article about officials investigating explosive rigged game cameras in Kentucky. The public safety advisory, issued Monday, warns that some of the trail cameras were found abandoned on paths in rural areas near the Dave Smith Drainage Area, on the Little Black Mountain Spur in Harlan County. ATFStatement These IEDs were designed to explode when a person inserted batteries into the trail camera, while others were set to explode by a trip wire leading to the trail cameras. http://www.outdoorhub.com/news...-ieds-trail-cameras/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ||
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Bloody Anti's I'll bet..  | |||
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Could be that someone got tired of getting their trail cams and tree stands stolen. velocity is like a new car, always losing value. BC is like diamonds, holding value forever. | |||
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That is a real possibility. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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+1 It could be an attempt to stop camera thefts but I think anti-hunting activity is more likely. At least one tree stand was also rigged with explosives. It would seem the intended victims are those who would handle trail cameras and use tree stands. . | |||
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That might get someone killed and I am not talking about the hunter. | |||
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Sick bastards for sure! . | |||
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You know it is a damn shame. I have a place about an hour south of my main house. It also has a small house on it. I have never had a problem with it until this year. So far this year, the sd cards have been stolen out of all of my game cams (luckily the cameras themselves are ok), I have truck tracks going right by the house to the back 40 acres and the water at the house has been turned on twice now and left on. The latter is not a huge deal except for the fact that the water price in that area is huge, and the plumbing in the house is questionable, so a pipe could burst and I would not know it for a week. So now I have a padlock on the water pump and I have cameras watching cameras. I don't just want it stopped, I want to catch the bastards. I will add another couple cameras watching the house this weekend. I have some that can be mounted high in trees pointing downward. They are hidden well enough that I had a hard time finding them, and I knew where I put them. I am also getting a drone to look over my property on opening weekend to see who is hunting it. I have heard a couple of the neighbors say. "You have all the good places to hunt." Unfortunately, the parts they are talking about are not easy to get to. Larry "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" -- Thomas Jefferson | |||
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My law partner has a friend who is the area ATF agent. The ATF agent shot and killed one of these guys last week. He reports to us that it was not organized anti hunters, but Harlan County being Harlan County. | |||
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NEWS RELEASES UPDATE #2: Officer involved shooting in Harlan County Date of News Release: 08/12/2016 Crime Scene PictureCrime Scene Picture Harlan, Ky. (August 12, 2016) - As a result of an ongoing investigation and safety concerns for the public the ATF, KSP Hazardous Devices Unit, and KSP Post 10 transported Sawaf back to Harlan County to aid in locating remaining improvised explosive devices. It was determined more of these devices had been deployed in wooded areas near the city of Harlan by Sawaf. Due to such an expanded area and large scale operation the ATF requested the assistance of the Lexington Police Department Hazardous Devices Unit, Lexington Fire Department-Fire Investigation Unit, and KSP Hazardous Devices Unit. Several improvised explosive devices were located and destroyed at the scene. During the operation, Sawaf attempted to flee custody at which time an altercation occurred with Sawaf and members of the ATF (Special Agent Todd Tremaine), Lexington Police Department Hazardous Devices Unit (LT. Matt Greathouse), and Lexington Fire Department- Fire Investigator Unit (Captain Brad Dobrzynski). As a result of the altercation Captain Dobrzynski from the Lexington Fire Department utilized deadly force by firing his weapon. Sawaf was pronounced deceased at the scene. At this time the Kentucky State Police is continuing the investigation. Other articles state Sawaf grabbed one of the officer's gun. Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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It gets even weirder... http://downtrend.com/71superb/...bly-didnt-hear-about HERE’S A TERRORIST ATTACK YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT AUGUST 13, 2016| BY BRIAN ANDERSON This is a very bizarre story that the national media doesn’t seem to have any interest in. Basically a man from Iraq set up a series of rigged explosives in rural Kentucky, for reasons known only to him. One of those bombs actually injured someone and the terrorist was arrested by the feds. As authorities tried to get the mad bomber to show them where the rest of his explosives were located, the Iraqi attacked officers and was killed by a local fire captain. Mark Sawaf and his father Ali moved to Kentucky from Iraq. Ali Sawaf was a doctor who got in trouble for giving out prescriptions without performing medical examinations, but son Mark’s criminal dreams were much bigger. He planted bombs in trail cameras all over Harlan County, KY. Earlier this year a man was injured by one of these exploding trail cameras. In June, the BATFE took Mark Sawaf into custody, presumably for terrorist activities. Recently, authorities got Sawaf to agree to show them where the remaining bombs were planted. Sawaf was taken to the mountain area he had booby-trapped by federal, state, and local officials. Rather than identifying his bombs, Sawaf tried to escape by attacking his escort. A Lexington Kentucky Fire Chief shot Sawaf dead. This is already a pretty weird story with a lot of unanswered questions, but Sawaf’s dad made things even stranger with a series of contradictory and hilarious statements to local media. Ali Sawaf told WKYT that he didn’t see what the big deal was about his son planting bombs in the first place: The explosives, his dad says, are nothing more than a hobby. “People complain about him because he go to these private land and state land and go target shooting like other 40 people, 45 people, doing the same thing. So, the ATF investigated him in 2014 and found everything legal. What makes it illegal now?” asked Ali Sawaf. I’m guessing the fact that he blew someone up is what made his “hobby” illegal. Then again, simply making and planting bombs is frowned upon by the law. This just goes to show how difficult it is for Middle Eastern terrorists to assimilate to a civilized society. After admitting that his son had planted the bombs, Ali Sawaf walked this back and told Lex18 that it was all a set-up: Ali says his son was an avid hunter since he was seven-years-old, so he had guns and gunpowder at his house. He also says his son wasn’t the one who made the bombs. “It can be anybody who tampered with his camera in the woods to put the initials. Someone tampered with the cameras and put powder,” said Ali. But wait, the conspiracy plot thickens: “Also they found the bear pelt. He don’t hunt for bear so somebody throw in his yard to incriminate him,” he said. How exactly does a bear pelt incriminate someone accused of planting bombs? We may never know the answer to that, but Ali Sawaf assures us his “innocent” son was the victim of racism: Ali claims race was a factor because his son is from Iraq and has gunpowder, “in my book we have terrorists in this country and we call them the police and the federal agents.” So does that mean Mark Sawaf was Muslim? The news doesn’t say and in fact, Fox describes him as a white man for some reason. I think given that he was Iraqi and blowing people up, it’s safe to assume he was a Muslim. The important question here is: why isn’t an Islamic terrorist bombing on American soil bigger news? Oh wait, I forgot the media has been too busy reporting on something stupid that Donald Trump said and couldn’t get around to reporting on this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |||
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This issue is obviously a continuing concern to the Feds, local law enforcement, and emergency services, as this BATFE news release is dated August 22. A full ten days after the suspect was shot and killed by the local Fire Captain. Be careful out there.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |||
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Did some googling on this and found some interesting reading. -Dr. Ali Sawaf apparently got busted 15+ years ago for fraudulent OxyContin prescriptions. Feds got him and he did 10+ years in federal prison. He got released from prison a couple years ago. -They might (key word) be Chaldean Iraqis (Catholic). This might just be, as one poster previously said, a local thing in Harlan County and not a national/terrorist/extremist thing. I'm leaning towards Mark, the dead guy, being an asshole 'hunter' that was pissed at some people over run-ins he had over hunting areas, perhaps private property he got run off of (?) so he boobie trapped the area. I base this on reading that the areas being searched were on private property and near a subdivision in the area. I have no inside info, just connecting some dots based on different things found on the 'Net | |||
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