Tag: bomb scare
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pipe bomb puts arizona nuclear plant on lockdown
from ap: Security officials at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were searching his apartment, authorities said. It didn’t appear to be an act of terrorism, authorities said, but they were still trying to determine why…
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bomb scare disrupts topoff drill
from oregonian: The Topoff dirty-bomb drill turned into a real-life bomb scare this afternoon after a trio of bomb-sniffing dogs alerted authorities to possible explosives on the first floor of the parking garage of the Doubletree Hotel Portland at 1000 NE Multnomah Street. Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was scheduled…
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another elaborate bomb drill in oregon
from news-register: Operation October, designed to simulate a countywide multiple explosives incident, will be launched in dramatic fashion. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, a call will be received at the Yamhill Communications Agency dispatch center in McMinnville that a bomb has just gone off at the building across from the courthouse where the Yamhill County commissioners…
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terrorcheese
from cnn: Police across the country should be on the lookout for what could be “dry runs” for a terrorist attack, the TSA advised after series of suspicious incidents occurred at U.S. airports. An unclassified advisory, sent July 20 from TSA to law enforcement agencies, raised the possibility that recent activity could be “pre-attack security…
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crying wolf over more fake terror
my worry here is that we’re being softened up by all these phony terror plots. so that when al-CIAda really hits, we’ll be completely blindsided & dumbfounded… so incompetent as to be almost laughablefrom talking points memo: “So incompetent as to be almost laughable.” That’s how former Scotland Yard detective John O’Connor described the botched…
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london police defuse car bomb
from npr: Police defused a car bomb in the busy Haymarket area of central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack. Police said the car – a silver Mercedes parked near busy Piccadilly Circus -…
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police seize huge cache of explosives
but say it’s not enough “for a terrorist action”from winter patriot: A Colorado man is free on $50,000 bond after a police search of his house discovered a cache of weapons, explosives and volatile chemicals. Ronald Swerlein of Longmont, CO, attracted the attention of his neighbors by setting off explosions in his garage. Police had…
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press corps evacuated from white house building
from raw story: A building close to the White House was evacuated says a breaking news report at the Associated Press. “The evacuated building was the White House conference center, which is around the corner,” AP said of the facility cleared due to a ‘bomb scare.’ “The conference center temporarily houses the White House press…