Friday, September 29, 2017

Bethesda tunnel house fire victim's Facebook appears to hint at excavation (Photo)

Montgomery County police have identified the deceased victim in a bizarre September 10 house fire on Danbury Road in Bethesda as 21-year-old Askia Khafra. Khafra was a resident of Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring, so it is currently unknown what he was doing at the home. The man believed to be the owner of the house survived with non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators continue to work the scene, where mysterious excavations and possible tunneling had been done, and explosives teams have been seen searching the property. Detectives have not yet characterized the nature of those excavations, and their purpose is also unknown.

However, a photo on a Facebook page appearing to be the victim's hints at some type of excavation. The photo, which is also set as the page's profile photo, shows an unidentified person wearing a respirator, hearing protection, and a hard hat who appears to be several feet below ground. A caption on the August 25 photo posting reads, "Undaneef deez skreetz."

Fox 5 reported on Thursday that it has learned Khafra was hired this summer to work on the excavation by the home's owner. The station's report characterizes the excavation as including tunnels and a "bunker." Reporter Paul Wagner also was able to obtain additional photos within the tunnels and bunker, including one in which he reports Khafra was wearing construction gear similar to that in the above Facebook photo.

Image via Facebook

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

There's something really scary here going on here or was. These guys are both bad news and the survivor is a convicted hacker. There's a report that a military arm of the CIA was involved and a bomb making factory at this house was thwarted.

Robert Dyer said...

5:15: Yeah, the rumor about the meth lab doesn't make much sense. Although I'll defer to people who know about meth labs, but is there a reason it would have to be underground instead of just in the basement? Seems like it was for some purpose other than drugs.

Anonymous said...

Well, it's also not normal to have this much action on the property and it be guarded 24/7. Something is really weird here.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the guy wanted a safe room bunker. He's a hoarder. Maybe he's mentally ill.

You don't want a meth lab in a contained space.

Anonymous said...

Rather late to this story, aren't you, Dyer?

Anonymous said...

There's a report that this wasn't a meth lab but something a whole lot scarier, a bomb making factory. CIA military arm may have been involved.

Anonymous said...

7:14 - 5:15 scooped you - 1 hour, 59 minutes.

Anonymous said...

Not in Westbard or the mall. What the hell is this doing here?

Anonymous said...

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

Dan said...

Just an observation... this home is about 1000ft from the NIH campus. Would an amateur effort of that length be out of the question?

Robert Dyer said...

5:15/8:28: Are the CIA and NIH threads two separate conspiracy theories, or part of the same one? What's the gist of the rumor?

Anonymous said...

Could this be connected to the secret tunnel that is being built under the south entrance to the Shoppes at Sumner Place?

Anonymous said...

Robert,
I don't think this is too far fetched. The FBI director did brief Congress right after the bomb squad went thru that house and warned about armed drones. Something is up here. Houses are not cordoned off with fencing and locks and guarded by the police day and night just for a damaging fire. This likely was a bomb making factory and could in fact be worse. We may never know the true story.

Robert Dyer said...

6:52: I did find one video that referred to 36 drones being seized from the house, and was talking about a CIA/Deep State conspiracy being foiled, but didn't say who foiled it or how. The longer they keep quiet, the more speculation there will be, and the more outlandish it will be.

8:53: I doubt there is a tunnel under there because the grade dips way down into a valley between that driveway and the intelligence campus.

Anonymous said...

Robert,
Not Deep State conspiracy but operative and plot. It's highly possible that the Global Response Staff, the military arm of the CIA, went in there and neutralized the threat. The questions are, were drones there? Where are they? Where is the convicted hacker? Is he telling authorities anything? And more questions remain.