Cyanide case in Denver
The Rocky Mountain News (via Michelle Malkin) reported that a Muslim from Canada was found dead in a hotel with a container of cyanide:
The Denver Channel (also via Michelle) reported that a whole pound of the crap was found there, and yes, it was cyanide:
The FBI and local authorities are trying to sort out the mystery of what happened to a man found dead at the Burnsley Hotel in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with a foreign substance that the coroner’s office said might be cyanide.This is a constant cliche we're seeing from the FBI, where they keep avoiding the hard questions, and they should be reprimanded for that.
On Tuesday, the man was identified as Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, a 29-year-old Canadian. Denver police said they believe he had been dead for several days before officers found him Monday morning.
“Because of the suspicious nature of the death and the unidentified substance - it leads to a lot of questions,” Special Agent Kathy Wright, an FBI spokeswoman, said Tuesday.
The coroner’s office said it completed an autopsy Tuesday, but medical examiners can’t determine the manner and cause of death until they have the results of lab tests. Foul play is not suspected…
[...]Although the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was alerted and is helping in the investigation, Wright emphasized that agents do not have information that would lead them to believe that the victim was a “terrorist or has terrorist ties.”
The Denver Channel (also via Michelle) reported that a whole pound of the crap was found there, and yes, it was cyanide:
Police confirmed Wednesday that they found about a pound of sodium cyanide in a Denver hotel room where the body of a Canadian man was discovered earlier this week.This is simply not good if they're going to keep answering like this.
Police spokesman John White identified the white powder as sodium cyanide, the crystal form of cyanide. Fire officials say they found a bottle containing about a pound of the white powder, or between a pint and a quart by volume.
An expert told the Denver Post that the amount of cyanide is enough to kill hundreds of people.
The medical examiner’s office said it is awaiting test results to determine whether cyanide killed 29-year-old Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, of Ottawa, Canada.
His body was found Monday inside Room 408 at The Burnsley Hotel, which is about four blocks from the state Capitol. White said Dirie had been dead for several days. Friends told The Ottawa Sun that he was dead six days before he was discovered.
Foul play is not suspected and his death appears to be an isolated incident.
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