Opinion | Calhoun: Wake-up Call

Wake-Up Call: What’s cooking? Conspiracies

According to the FBI affidavit and indictment unsealed yesterday, twice this summer Najibullah Zazi checked into an unnamed Aurora hotel that had a kitchen, where he attempted to cook up a bomb with items he'd bought from a nearby beauty-supply house. To keep this country safe from terrorists (and other...
By Patricia CalhounSeptember 25, 2009
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According to the FBI affidavit and indictment unsealed yesterday, twice this summer Najibullah Zazi checked into an unnamed Aurora hotel that had a kitchen, where he attempted to cook up a bomb with items he’d bought from a nearby beauty-supply house. To keep this country safe from terrorists (and other guests safe from bad cooking smells), maybe the feds should consider banning stoves in hotel rooms.

Or maybe they should just ban southeast Denver hotels altogether. After all, last summer another gang that couldn’t think straight checked into another local hotel, where the trio of meth-hoods cooked up a half-baked plot to murder Barack Obama.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame (probably for her bar tab). She’s received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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