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To: CitizenM

from the Fox website:

DEVELOPING: The man in custody for carrying a backpack with “suspicious items and products” inside Arlington National Cemetery overnight is a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, military and law enforcement sources tell Fox News.

Yonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine corps reservist who lives in Virginia and who is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect in custody, Fox News has learned.

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Law enforcement officials also told Fox News that police found five pounds of a substance labeled ammonium nitrate inside the backpack — field tests, however, came back negative. A notebook was also found containing threatening phrases like “Al Qaeda” and “Taliban rule” and “defeated coalition forces,” the officials said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/17/suspicious-vehicle-shuts-down-several-major-roads-near-pentagon/#ixzz1PY079SF8


18 posted on 06/17/2011 8:39:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks, Laz.


23 posted on 06/17/2011 8:43:08 AM PDT by CitizenM (If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.-Ronald Re)
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To: Lazamataz
...backpack with “suspicious items and products...

News 4 said there was spray paint in the backpack.

31 posted on 06/17/2011 8:49:42 AM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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