Daily Beast: “A so-called incel who fantasized about blowing up a shopping mall and killing ‘hot cheerleaders’ pleaded guilty Friday to one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device. Cole Carini of Richlands, Virginia, reportedly idolized mass shooter Elliott Rodger, an ‘involuntary celibate,; or ‘incel,’ who in 2014 murdered six people in California and injured 14 others before taking his own life. Many legal scholars say incel-related violence, which has been linked to at least 53 deaths in recent years, is a form of domestic terrorism. The ‘incel movement’ is comprised of young men who feel angry at women for rejecting them.”

“The charges against Carini stem from a bizarre incident in June, when the 23-year-old showed up at the hospital missing his left hand and several fingers on his right. He also had shrapnel wounds to the neck and throat, but claimed to have suffered his horrifying injuries in a gardening accident. Knowing that Carini had a previous conviction on his record for explosives, local cops called in the FBI to search the home Carini shared with his mother. There, agents found a trail of blood leading to a second-floor bedroom. Inside, they found human skin and a chunk of flesh stuck to the ceiling, a box filled with rusty nails, a peanut butter jar containing at least two pounds of the volatile explosive triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a ‘substance used in the creation of improvised explosive devices,’ and ammonium nitrate, a form of which was used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 and injuring nearly 700. Although it was not made public at the time, an FBI agent later testified in court that investigators found handwritten bomb-making formulas and recipes – with Carini’s name on them – in his bedroom, as well as a modified pressure cooker containing two vials in Carini’s bedroom closet.”