UPDATE: The F.B.I. has sent the bomb and backpack in Monday’s bomb scare to Quantico, Virginia. It is the site of the F.B.I.’s state-of-the-art testing laboratory. (more…)
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Updated: Bomb, backpack, T-shirts analyzed at FBI testing laboratory
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Tourist Arrested In Disney World Bomb Threat
Sunday, November 29th, 2009WKMG reports a German tourist was arrested Sunday after he told a cast member at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom that he had two bombs in his backpack, according to authorities.
Jochen Naumann, 37, was arrested on charges of making a false report of a bomb.
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Chemical Purchases Investigated In New York Terror Probe
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009A report from the Wall Street Journal states that investigators are trying to track purchases of chemicals that could be used to make explosives, as part of the ongoing New York / Denver terror probe.
From the Wall Street Journal
Two officials familiar with the probe said investigators were combing records on the purchases of chemicals, particularly hydrogen peroxide, that could be used to make bombs.
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US Cities, Fed. Unprepared For Recovery From Dirty Bomb
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009US cities would be so overwhelmed by a dirty bomb or nuclear bomb attack that they would invariably rely upon the federal government for recovery, but agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have not yet completed their planning for delivering such assistance, congressional investigators warned Monday.
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PA. – Police Uniform Discovered In Bomb Suspects Home
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The man arrested for carrying a bomb in a backpack on Saturday had a police badge and a police uniform with a Hudson Falls patch in his western Pennsylvania home when it was searched after his arrest, officials said.
Hudson Falls Police were trying Monday to determine from where the uniform came, said Police Chief Randy Diamond.
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New York Police Expand Dirty Bomb Security
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Thousands of additional law enforcement officers within 50 miles of New York City will have access to radiation detectors for dirty bombs and nuclear devices, New York police said on Wednesday.
The detectors, including cell phone-sized devices that officers wear on their belts, could help uncover a dirty bomb that might be assembled outside New York and smuggled in, police said at a security conference.
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Backpack With 7 Pipe Bombs Leads To Evacuations
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Santee California – A man who found seven pipe bombs in a backpack turned them in to the Sheriff’s Department substation Monday afternoon, prompting authorities to evacuate nearby businesses as they neutralized the explosive devices.
The man entered the station on Cuyamaca Street, near Buena Vista Avenue, around 2:15 p.m. and left the backpack in the lobby, Lt. Mike Munsey said. The man said he found the bag with the bombs the night before and one of them was leaking.
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