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Attempt Made On Deutsche Bank Head's Life: Explosive Package Addressed To CEO Intercepted, ECB Return Address Given
It seems that popular anger at the banker minority will no longer be confined to tent-based vigils in public parks. In Germany, someone just escalated a bit to quite a bit. The irony, in this case, is that the package was addressed from the ECB. If it weren't for a potentially sensitive topic, the amusing implications could be severe. From Reuters: "A suspected parcel bomb addressed to Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann was intercepted at a Deutsche office in Frankfurt on Wednesday, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. The package was discovered around 1 p.m. Frankfurt time (7 a.m. EST/1200 GMT) in a mailroom, the official said. Initial analyses by investigators confirmed that it contained explosives and extra shrapnel, he told Reuters. A spokesman for Deutsche Bank in New York declined to comment. After receiving reports about the package, the New York Police Department stepped up security around Deutsche Bank's offices in New York and also notified corporate security executives around the city, the law enforcement official said. The official said the suspected bomb carried a return address from the European Central Bank, which is also headquartered in Frankfurt."
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BWAHAHAHA!!!
There are times when I just love this place.
My company sent out some promo t-shirts, put one in a 9x12 envelope, stamps and drop it in the mail box across the street. One guy was getting 2 t-shirts. The US Postal Service returned the package to us, with a note that packages over 13 oz could not be mailed from a mail box. So if someone wanted to get around this restriction, what do you think they would use for the return address?
Except that it was delivered, not returned.
About the 13 oz. thing, my wife had the damnedest time trying mail Christmas gifts to friends in the UK last year. It's like the USPS wants to go under. But at least the world is safe from bbq sauce attacks.
Explodin' lederhosen Batman!
ja Herrschaftszeitensakrament - war der guat!
Is the USPS that good, or is first class just too expensive?
If they hadn't sprung for the extra shrapnel they probably would have gone first class on the postage, but times are tough you know.
Man. what a great gift for your favorite bankster. Call 1-800-KER-POWW. Every bankster needs one this Christmas/Chanukah. Hurry now. The first ten callers get free wrapping.
I guess Ackermann doesn't own a hot tub.
Shrapnel. The new PM?
" Initial analyses by investigators confirmed that it contained explosives and extra shrapnel, he told Reuters"
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" Initial analyses by investigators confirmed that it contained Derivatives and extra shrapnel, he told Reuters."
Fixed. Viva -- Sager
Some idiot sends a letter bomb to a banker and it's a Tragedy.
Some banker signs a letter ruining millions of lives and it's a Statistic.
and much more to come... crybaby banker thinking mafia style fraud would not lead to mafia style retribution...
Goddamned Amazon
"extra shrapnel"...sounds like they were describing what was on a pizza being delivered.
how does one determine what constitutes extra shrapnel? is there some uniform measurement matrix that determines the average amount of steel projectiles in a bomb, and this one exceeded that limit? how do they determine that average I wonder, is it by weight, or by number of pieces?
does anybody here know what the daily recommended allowance of shrapnel is for a bankster?
I smell false flag here, extra shrapnel, extra dangerous, from an extra crazy domestic terrorist , maybe an excuse to further lock down NYC, after all Bloomberg has to give his "private army" (his words when referring to the NYPD) something to do other than bully the OWS crowd which has proven to be harmless. now they can set up checkpoints on wall street and harass everybody who walks down it and doesn't flash a bankster ID.
either way we are rapidly approaching the point where walking outside your front door will be accompanied by the free, complimentary but required rectal exam provided by your friends at the DHS...
It's funny, but I suspect that "extra shrapnel" just means someone packed stuff around the explosives. Another word for that would be "regular shrapnel."
Although this is amusing and all, it's not really the right approach to the problem. Killing a CEO is meaningless. It's like cutting a head off of a hydra. The problem is the BANK, and you can't "kill" a bank.
I suspect it is a mistranslation of "and in addition".
But you can scare the hell out of the bastards and cause them a few sleepless nights in their mansions.
It's doubleplus good is what it is.
Oh just some chickens coming home to roost .......
They must have run out of any decent porn to send them for Christmas....
A bankster's terrorist is a debt slave's freedom fighter.
lol? this terrorist is genius! Hide the trail! And if someone missed the package it would go to a secondary target!
Hmm have you ever tried sending mail without a postage stamp by putting the intended destination as a return address? I wonder if it would work.
Alternatively, that really was a message from the ECB and we're on a whole new level of financial warfare.
Hopefully it doesn't catch on.
Because failures like that are such a bummer.
/you're welcome
Next on the chopping block... Squid?
Thank goodness that the thing did not hurt or kill anyone. I dont care for bankers, but killing is not the answer and the wanta be killers need to be delt with, without compassion.
Compassion is for the 1% right?
No need for violence. Bank runs should end the system peacefully and send the banksters into courts of law to answer charges. However, if things get really really bad, just remember how Qaddafi, Mussolini and Ceausescu died.
I heard JaMarcus Russell tried to throw a grenade at Jamie Dimon after they foreclosed on his house.
Good thing for Dimon, it was intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
Alabama fan?
WTF, Bloomberg should declare Manhattan a "green zone" (as in Bagdad) completely walled in, razor wired, guard towers and patrolled by BlackWater mercenaries (as in NOla).
Give the idea a few more months to catch on. Then it will be everywhere.
In my fictional works I call them "ring cities" and the walls go up in the middle of the night, looping outwards in increasing diameter with every month, and slowly eating everything behind them with "undesired elements" vanishing without a trace and the elites moving in and building deluxe condominiums on their bones. Making the world safe for the oligarch class one square yard at a time.
Coming soon to a real world near you.
DAS BOMB
It could be just gamesmanship and play acting. While the ECB and the national banks take turns playing "good cop/bad cop", the Euro burns and populations are caught in the middle.
http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/
Oh well. Sucks to be a candidate for vigilante justice.
Lock and load :-) Hopefully the first of many
You know what the germans say: kill a banker and its a crime; kill all the bankers and its a revolution.
Tyler, they're not asking investors and banks for any concessions in the sovereign funding crisis.
All shall be made whole! All debts will stand and taxpayers will have to bear the burden on all sovereign debts.
This is going to be the catalyst for coming civil wars, bloody revolutions and a complete shakedown of the power elite.
For it is written:
"Thou shalt build wood sheds for every banker"
a week ago I gueesed that Schauble & Ackermann were working behind the scenes to maneuver Germany out the Euro and the German banks recapitalized. Looks like this might be playing out as predictedand a warning shot. Schauble should stay out of hot tubs and small planes as well.
Hell hath no wrath like Goldman scorned.
Being honest, I'd want at least three corroborating pieces of data before I even thought this was true.
Oh, and newsflash: if you want to take out entire boardrooms at a time, you merely sign on as a cleaner (low paid, invisible, instant access without security checks, heck, fake your nationality and skin colour easily enough) and place a splinter package under the centre of the negotiating table. Right time, everyone loses their kneecaps, and the men lose their balls. (All that alpha male testosterone: sitting with splayed legs).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEdgzndKuog
Anything like this that ignores the real society that they live in, is 100% unadulterated propaganda or the lone wolf unabomber. If they're coming for you, they sure as shit ain't using the postal service: because, you know, that shit is unreliable and getting closed down. (Mailing anthrax? TROLOLOLOLOLOL... only secretaries open mail, boys... /fail)
And yes: this type of bullshit is total drivel: or perhaps I just have a much more creative and evil mind than the "terrorists" out there?
You might. But to your point, I would have to agree; this was too stupid and ham-handed to be for real. Like the guy with the explosives in his crotch, this too was intended to be caught. The leverage for the police state is all they wanted; there was no actual need to kill the mailroom drones. That would have cost actual money, afterall.
it's about time!!
AND SO IT BEGINS >>>
More special packages for Blankfein and Blythe please.
Thanks.
The bombs always start off small......and end up big.
A suspected parcel bomb addressed to Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann was intercepted at a Deutsche office in Frankfurt on Wednesday, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. The package was discovered around 1 p.m. Frankfurt time (7 a.m. EST/1200 GMT) in a mailroom, the official said.
Is there nothing in the world into which the U.S. government does not feel compelled to insert itself?
The Obama Occupy kids looking for relevence/ Just askin.....
Sorry folks. It was NOT a "package", it was an envelope. And it contained neither commercial nor military grade explosives. It contained an "explosive powder" which could have been anything from cocaine to gunpowder - maybe both ;-). And it wouldn't have killed him but would have given him first or second degree burns on hands and arms and maybe the face. That is what police speakers yesterday told here.
Reality is sometimes not as colourful as imagination ...
Or flour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ve0798jC0RE
Or coffee creamer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc