Three Die in Bizarre Lackland Incident
October 31, 2005
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Three women were killed today when they apparently tried to avoid the security checks at the entrance to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and their car slammed at a high rate of speed into a four foot tall concrete barrier, 1200 WOAI news reported this afternoon.
Lackland spokeswoman Linda Frost says one of the women was killed instantly, and the other two were transported to Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center, which is located at Lackland, where they were pronounced dead.
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Strong, Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan
October 28, 2005
New York City has many odors, but when the city began to smell a little too good, New Yorkers became alarmed.
Residents from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Upper West Side nearly 10 miles north called a city hot line to report a strong odor Thursday night that most compared to maple syrup, The New York Times reported Friday.
There were so many calls that the city’s Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to find the source of the mysterious smell.
Air tests haven’t turned up anything harmful, but the source was still a mystery.
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Police Arrest Two in Marshall County Bomb Scare
October 23, 2005
Following a fierce investigation, two suspects have been arrested in connection to a bomb scare in Marshall County.
After the Kingston police found two homemade bombs within blocks of each other yesterday, authorities say a total of 28 bombs were recovered.
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Shopkeeper denies involvement in plot: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
October 22, 2005
Speaking for the first time since he was swept up in a terror probe, the owner of a Southeast Baltimore convenience store said yesterday he knows of no plots to blow up a Baltimore tunnel, and he criticized federal authorities for acting on a tip about which they have become increasingly skeptical.
“I’ve been in America 23 years. I would never let anybody harm here in America,” said Maged M. Hussein, a U.S. citizen from Egypt.
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FDNY chief: We’re training for nukes
October 22, 2005
Terrorists attacking New York City with a crude nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb are among the main threats the FDNY is preparing for, the department’s top disaster planner said yesterday.
Chief Joseph Pfeifer told a panel of security experts the FDNY is rapidly transforming itself into a terrorism-ready force that is equipped to respond to such potentially catastrophic attacks.
“It’s the training we do that’ll make the difference between who gets saved and who doesn’t get saved,” Pfeifer said at the Council on Foreign Relations on E.68thSt.
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Egyptian held in Baltimore terror threat
October 18, 2005
An Egyptian native who worked at a Baltimore market reportedly was being held in connection with a threat that closed down parts of I-95 Tuesday.
The Baltimore Sun said the man was taken into custody at the Middle Eastern market Tuesday afternoon. There was no report he had been charged.
Federal and local authorities, using “an abundance of caution” in the face of a potential terror threat, briefly closed portions of Interstate 95 in Baltimore.
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Arrest Made In Connection With Threat To Baltimore Tunnels
October 18, 2005
Authorities have arrested a man they say may be connected to a threat that prompted the temporary shutdown of the Harbor Tunnel and restrictions on the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore.
The suspect was one of four people arrested on immigration charges after several raids were conducted at businesses with Middle Eastern connections.
A federal law enforcement official, who didn’t want to be identified, said the threat was called in by someone who claimed to have information from abroad. The caller said vehicles loaded with explosives would be driven into the tunnel.
A second FBI agent said the information in the threat was “somewhat specific,” but he said the information was not corroborated.
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Security clearances pulled amid leak investigation
October 18, 2005
Security clearances were taken away from two federal anti-terrorism employees as investigators look into allegations they warned family and friends about the threat against the New York City subway system three days ahead of the official announcement.
The workers were identified after government security officials began looking into the source for e-mails alluding to the threat that began circulating before New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went public Oct. 6. Security in the transit network was ramped up based on an overseas informant’s claim there was a plot to bomb the system.
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US security chief strives to expel all illegal immigrants
October 18, 2005
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department aims without exception to expel all those who enter the United States illegally.
“Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the ‘catch and release’ enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.
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Hamas ‘capable of U.S. attacks’
October 16, 2005
Hamas has cells inside the United States that are technically capable of attacking the country.
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