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Suspicious Package at Maxwell AFB, "Positive indication for explosives"
WSFA via WAFF ^ | Friday, January 31, 2014 | John Shyrock

Posted on 01/31/2014 10:33:06 AM PST by kristinn

The Montgomery Explosives Ordnance Disposal and base security officials at Maxwell Air Force Base are responding to a report of a suspicious package.

The package, found during a routine inspection, "gave a positive indication for explosives", according to officials.

Officials say the package, discovered around 10 a.m. in the base post office, is about the size of a box of blank checks.

(Excerpt) Read more at waff.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: explosives; food; maxwellafb; suspiciouspackage

1 posted on 01/31/2014 10:33:06 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Never mail a package when you have been on the range all day...


2 posted on 01/31/2014 10:35:59 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: kristinn

Sounds like it may be a box of ammunition that somebody was mailing or having mailed to them.


3 posted on 01/31/2014 10:39:40 AM PST by commish (The takers rule. Time to implement the triple G plan - GOD, GUNS, & GOLD)
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To: 2banana

Or after you’ve been putting fertilizer on the lawn.


4 posted on 01/31/2014 10:40:37 AM PST by PAR35
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To: kristinn

Package of frozen burritos?


5 posted on 01/31/2014 10:47:21 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: kristinn

Package of frozen burritos?


6 posted on 01/31/2014 10:47:35 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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Luis Martinez, ABC News via Twitter:

"JUST IN: Maxwell AFB situation is all clear, further testing determined pkg was "neutral" so security cordon around base post office lifted"

7 posted on 01/31/2014 11:28:43 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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“During the incident, the Maxwell Boulevard Gate was closed and traffic was diverted to other gates during the situation.”

After reading that sentence my 10th grade English teacher, Sister Alice, would have a conniption fit.


8 posted on 02/01/2014 10:05:50 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: kristinn

It was food. Who knows, maybe it was hot chili beans — that could cause gas.

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Update:

http://www.waff.com/story/24601699/suspicious-package-at-maxwell-afb

“Maxwell AFB suspicious package was ‘food product’”

Posted: Jan 31, 2014 10:01 AM PST
Updated: Jan 31, 2014 11:54 AM PST
By John Shryock


9 posted on 02/02/2014 12:01:33 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks for the update.


10 posted on 02/02/2014 6:51:31 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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