Columbia Professor Shacking Up With Terrorist
Two days ago the New York Times reported the arrest of a virulently anti-semitic Brooklynite with a weapons cache "including pipe bombs, crossbows, guns and silencers." Horrified but removed enough from the event to avoid excessive distress, we remained unaware of the Ivy League connection until we saw New York Daily News' coverage. Headline: Bomb-making factory found in apartment of Columbia Professor.
Michael Clatts is an associate professor at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and specializes in epidemiology -- i.e. the spread of infectious disease, a pretty damning field of study for a guy living in a terrorist den. Clatts was out of the building when his roommate, Ivaylo Ivanov -- a Bulgarian national who spends his free time walking the dog and packing pipe bombs into Nerf footballs -- accidentally shot his fingertip off and sought medical help from the police. Imagine their surprise when they entered his home and found a stockpile of super-terrifying weapons! Clatts' relationship with Ivanov is not yet clear. Though "Clatts once described himself and Ivanov as roommates, nothing more," residents also report that "It's not a huge apartment" and "One has to assume Michael must have seen something at one point."
Or smelled the burning gunpowder. Or been kinda weirded out by the bulletproof vest and crossbow.
Since Ivanov is from Bulgaria, NYPD is investigating mafia involvement, but sources say it is unlikely because
Russian Mafia aren't fazed by getting a fingertip shot off -- and they certainly don't go to the cops for help.
With the right casting, this could be a Hollywood thriller. But is Clatts the innocent, bumbling academic who accidentally stumbles into a violent plot to destroy freedom and happiness as we know it? Or is he the evil, scheming, wild-haired genius behind the entire plot?
Also, why hasn't the Spec picked this up, yet?
UPDATE: Whoops, looks like they did, but their site search was weirdly impervious to the phrase "Michael Clatts." The Spec reports that, though affiliated with the University, Clatts is not on Columbia's payroll and doesn't teach, but is "among a large number of individuals who are employed elsewhere in the New York metropolitan area but have a voluntary affiliation ... because of the relevant public health research." The Spec also describes the dramatic discovery of the Ivanov's stockpile:
Neighbor Penny Kaufman said police knocked on her door at 3:20 a.m., mistaking it for Clatts' and Ivaylo's. She then accompanied them to the correct apartment.
"One of the police opened the door more and said, 'Oh, a pipe bomb,'" Kaufman said.
Gee whiz! A violent maniac. Ho-hum.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
http://columbiaspectator.com/node/28675
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Somewhere, Maureen Rush is taking credit for this…
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
IvyGate, home of the world’s slowest commenting system and worst search function, is really going to harp on a “weirdly impervious” search function?
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Does this mean the c.i.a. will openly recruit him to lead a major corporation or bank for some bloody blue chip genocide to profit from. He sounds like an ideal candidate to implement rockerfellerian foreign policy billy waugh kill them all style, where’s his buddies ford, prescott bush j.p. and the duponts ?
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
No surprise here, typical left-wing loons from Columbia. I’d hate to be taught by one of these idiotic profs—oh wait…TAs teach them, I forgot.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
D’08, just for the record, none of our classes are taught by TAs. And this guy did not teach any classes. That said, our school is in fact filled to the brim with typical left-wing loons. If you’re gonna diss us, do it right, bitch.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
And you must be the typical satanic american goon, all americans are satanic goons and proud of it, right wing and of the fake brand of Christianity that demands pre emptive murder, hide the pedophiles preying on pages, and demand the right to torture. There is nothing left in america, you’re all fascists in comparison to the entire rest of the planet, what the fuck are you talking about. Read some John Perkins and your confessions of an economic hit man.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:28 am
This RACISM makes my blood boil that this JEW TERRORIST is given SPECIAL TREATMENT. According to the terrorism law written by the criminal NEOCONS (Libby and his pardoner as well), this MOSSAD TERRORIST must be put with PADDILLA and he must be stripped naked and sent to GUANTANAMO and tried my MILITARY TRIBUNALS but he must be interrogated with no FRAUD and possibility of AIPAC coverup or shipment to ISRAEL.
It is quite possible that this Mossad agent from the Jewish Khazar tribe planned to attack the Neturei Karta and harm other anti-zionist jews, please see http://www.nkusa.org, http://iamthewitness.com …
Its really a divine mercy that he was caught in this way by his own mistake.
We will see, in the coming days, the zionist-neocon establishment trying to put a spin on this story. We already see that NY Times has hidden this story away from the front page on their website.
It is amazing that the police had 20 detectives working on this graffiti case, but for normal serious issues, they dont devote any man power to investigations. And despite that they FAILED to catch him. This is the height of incompetence of these and the FBI (FAILED BUREAU of INCOMPETENTS) which has not produced the anthrax mailer or made a categorical statement based on the pattern of anthrax letters that it was a false flag operation by non-mozlems.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:30 am
This RACISM makes my blood boil that this JEW TERRORIST is given SPECIAL TREATMENT. According to the terrorism law written by the criminal NEOCONS (Libby and his pardoner as well), this MOSSAD TERRORIST must be put with PADDILLA and he must be stripped naked and sent to GUANTANAMO and tried my MILITARY TRIBUNALS but he must be interrogated with no FRAUD and possibility of AIPAC coverup or shipment to ISRAEL.
It is quite possible that this Mossad agent from the Jewish Khazar tribe planned to attack the Neturei Karta and harm other anti-zionist jews, please see http://www.nkusa.org, http://iamthewitness.com …
Its really a divine mercy that he was caught in this way by his own mistake.
We will see, in the coming days, the zionist-neocon establishment trying to put a spin on this story. We already see that NY Times has hidden this story away from the front page on their website.
It is amazing that the police had 20 detectives working on this graffiti case, but for normal serious issues, they dont devote any man power to investigations. And despite that they FAILED to catch him. This is the height of incompetence of these and the FBI (FAILED BUREAU of INCOMPETENTS) which has not produced the anthrax mailer or made a categorical statement based on the pattern of anthrax letters that it was a false flag operation by non-mozlems.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:07 am
You are a CRAZY person. Total CAPITALIZATION of words is unnecessary and makes you look like an IDIOT.
Should I also MENTION that your comment failed to take into account any REAL sources CONFIRMING that this guy was MOSSAD?
It’s SAD that people like you EXIST. Did your parents INCULCATE you with this NONSENSE, or are do you just read TOO much David Duke?
January 24th, 2008 at 10:00 am
The position of resident paranoid schizophrenic has been filled (see: christianarchisti). Thank you for your interest and we wish you luck in your future ravings.
Cheers,
The Ivy League
PS - We hear antipsychotics are useful in the management of delusions.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
“Packing pipe bombs into Nerf footballs” = Columbia Football, 2008 Ivy League Champions
January 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
“Packing pipe bombs into Nerf footballs” = Columbia Football, 2008 Ivy League Champions
January 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Mossad: Do not pass “Go” and head straight to Gitmo.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Why is it that almost every Dartmouth poster on IvyGate has such a massive grudge against Columbia?
If you’ve been to the social scene on both campuses, you’d realize that despite the different settings (bars vs frats) the majority of the people are pretty much the same.
Can’t we all just get along and make fun of Cornell?
January 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
All right tag team trouncing the twisted tykes from tinseltown traditional school, where their entire life is fiction and bubbles. Fuck you, you evil satan worshipping wanna be rodents. Good for you, suicidal idiots, profiting off your own genocide makes a few on wall street millionaire rich but look at Carlos Slim Helu’s 60 BILLION, increasing at a rate of 1 BILLION a month and he makes sovereign wealth funds look like spare change. Typical americans greedy but lacking any seemingly functional brains and look at the others profit immensely whuppin america at it’s own games of evils. I’m a talking walking dead man that the cia missed, and missed, and missed and believe me I’m an easy target. It is rather odd the efforts you yank your dicks go to to kill someone trying to save american lives and others. Odd for normal humans but then you’re satanic americans and that makes it all so much clearer. Rules ? What fucking rules. How is team sodomy nyc police and Albert Louima ? An innocent guy grabbed off the street and a toilet plunger rammed up his ass in a nyc precinct bathroom. Christians demanding their right to torture ? W.T.F ? WHAT’S UP satan ?
January 25th, 2008 at 3:00 am
christianarchisti’s comments have become boring and curt. I almost read through the entirety of the last one without becoming bored and skipping the rest.
Also, if you want to be a legitimate terrorist, shooting your hand off and telling the cops is not exactly in the handbook. Nor is ignoring/working with your roommate who has such weapons…
January 26th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
@I Don’t Get It: “Can’t we all just get along and make fun of Cornell?”
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Not while Columbians themselves diss the school all over the comments here. And don’t think your sad bars compare to a night of pong - I visited and the few who went out went to the bars… near NYU. When I visited Cornell, at least they went to their own bars instead of basking in somebody else’s social scene. The only things you’ve got going for you are the core and (sad but true) being close to NYU. Keggy votes to replace you with Rutgers.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
@I Don’t Get It: “Can’t we all just get along and make fun of Cornell?”
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Not while Columbians themselves diss the school all over the comments here. And don’t think your sad bars compare to a night of pong - I visited and the few who went out went to the bars… near NYU. When I visited Cornell, at least they went to their own bars instead of basking in somebody else’s social scene. The only things you’ve got going for you are the core and (sad but true) being close to NYU. Keggy votes to replace you with Rutgers.