So apparently, they found something with wires, pipes and antennae underneath a subway seat in Rome, and they're puzzling to figure out what it might be:

ROME (AP) -- An explosive device was found Tuesday under a subway-car seat in Rome and bomb-disposal experts were examining whether it was an attempted Christmas season terror attack, officials said.

I'm all for circumspection in reporting, but by definition, it's the Christmas season, and no one puts something like that under a subway seat in an effort to spread merriment now, do they? 

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Lady Kurobara
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Nov '10
Lady Kurobara
Claire Berlinski, Ed.: I'm all for circumspection in reporting, but by definition, it's the Christmas season, and no one puts something like that under a subway seat in an effort to spread merriment now, do they?

That sounds like a pretty good guess to me.  And I am guessing that it was put there by a member of a certain "religion of peace."  See?  I can be circumspect, too.

But seriously, it sounds like a package of bomb parts that was planted there to be assembled later — in about two or three days, just to take a wild guess.

 

Scott Reusser
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May '10
Scott Reusser

 It could be a Kwanzaa season attack, or a Hanukkah season attack, or just some  pagan, winter solstice-type attack.

Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Scott Reusser:  It could be a Kwanzaa season attack, or a Hanukkah season attack, or just some  pagan, winter solstice-type attack. · Dec 22 at 5:45am

You're right, of course. Or an early summer attack.

Kennedy Smith
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May '10
Kennedy Smith

 A bomb to spread merriment?  Hot on the trail of the Joker, though my fencing skillz are largely defensive.  Grab your cape.

Pseudodionysius
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Sep '10
Pseudodionysius

Claire Berlinski, Ed.

Scott Reusser:  It could be a Kwanzaa season attack, or a Hanukkah season attack, or just some  pagan, winter solstice-type attack. · Dec 22 at 5:45am

You're right, of course. Or an early summer attack. · Dec 22 at 5:50am

Or Mars Attacks.

Sisyphus
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Jul '10
Sisyphus

Obviously a Mossad plant to convince those racist Italians that Muslim perfidy is afoot.

Although it could have been those nuns from An American Carol.


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