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BASF guard shot Freeport, Texas Chemical Plant Complex
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064351/posts FREEPORT — Police were looking for a man Friday night who they said shot a BASF security guard at the perimeter of the plant near FM 1495 and Highway 36.
Freeport Police Chief Henrietta Gonzalez said the guard approached a suspicious truck about 9:20 p.m. and the man inside said he had been taking pictures. He then shot the guard in the shoulder area, Gonzalez said.
“He was shot at point-blank range,” said Detective Sgt. Sue Dietrich. “You could see the powder burns.”
Police did not release the guard’s name, but said he was doing well at Brazosport Memorial Hospital late Friday night.
The guard told police the shooter was a man of Middle-Eastern descent with bushy hair and a mustache, and had been driving a white pickup with tinted windows and a black stripe. The truck did not have a front license plate, according to police radio reports.
BASF spokeswoman Sharon Rogers said there is no indication the shooting is linked to terrorism.
“There is nothing for us to indicate anything other than there is a shooting that happened on our property,” Rogers said. “We’ll just have to see what the investigation will reveal.”
Rogers said the security guard was employeed by Munday Corp., which provides the plant’s security force.
The culprit left the scene just after the shooting and did not get inside the plant gates, police said.
As of 10:30 p.m., Dietrich said the incident was not being investigated as an attempted terrorist attack.
FBI officials in Houston confirmed they had been notified of the incident but would not comment further.
The guard had been patrolling the perimeter of the plant, outside the gate and near a water tower, but in view of the plant’s ammonia tank. There was no access road or gate into the plant from the site of the shooting.
The wounded guard managed to drive down FM 1495 to the nearest plant gate, where an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working security at the plant called police.
The truck was last seen heading west on Highway 36, according to police radio reports.
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Connecting dots.....Coincidence??
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/today/8204algeria.html January 21, 2004
PETROCHEMICALS
EXPLOSION ROCKS ALGERIAN LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS PLANT
Refinery complex explodes in eastern Algeria, killing 23, injuring dozens
(snipped) Sonatrach, for example, is a joint-venture partner with BASF in BASF Sonatrach PropanChem, which supplies propane to BASF's propane dehydrogenation plant in Tarragona, Spain. The Spanish plant in turn provides propylene feedstock for polypropylene operations there.
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Freeport Police Chief Henrietta Gonzalez said the guard approached a suspicious truck about 9:20 p.m. and the man inside said he had been taking pictures. He then shot the guard in the shoulder area, Gonzalez said.
The guard told police the shooter was a man of Middle-Eastern descent with bushy hair and a mustache, and had been driving a white pickup with tinted windows and a black stripe. The truck did not have a front license plate, according to police radio reports.
BASF spokeswoman Sharon Rogers said there is no indication the shooting is linked to terrorism.
Yeah..OBVIOUSLY not linked to terrorism. ME types take photographs of chemical plants in the middle of the night for all SORTS of reasons.
When are we gonna drop the PC garbage and start calling a spade a spade? Man, it tweaks me off when they spin things like this.
To: Velveeta
"V" you always find these interesting articles!! This one is extremely suspicious and another one that we will probably hear nothing more about. Why in the world would the guy actually come out and tell the guard he was taking pictures and then shoot him (bad shot at that). Another notch on the stupid meter for the bad guys.
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01/24/2004 9:07:57 AM PST by
WestCoastGal
("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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WORTH REPEATING...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064351/posts "BASF guard shot Freeport, Texas Chemical Plant Complex"
The Facts online newspaper ^ | 1-24-2004 | Staff Reports
Posted on 01/24/2004 6:54:06 AM PST by buffyt
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FREEPORT — Police were looking for a man Friday night who they said shot a BASF security guard at the perimeter of the plant near FM 1495 and Highway 36.
Freeport Police Chief Henrietta Gonzalez said the guard approached a suspicious truck about 9:20 p.m. and the man inside said he had been taking pictures. He then shot the guard in the shoulder area, Gonzalez said.
“He was shot at point-blank range,” said Detective Sgt. Sue Dietrich. “You could see the powder burns.”
Police did not release the guard’s name, but said he was doing well at Brazosport Memorial Hospital late Friday night.
The guard told police the shooter was a man of Middle-Eastern descent with bushy hair and a mustache, and had been driving a white pickup with tinted windows and a black stripe. The truck did not have a front license plate, according to police radio reports.
BASF spokeswoman Sharon Rogers said there is no indication the shooting is linked to terrorism."
Posted on 01/24/2004 12:49:51 PM PST by Cindy
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BASF Canada
markets a diverse range of products, including basic, intermediate and specialty chemicals.
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01/24/2004 8:31:17 PM PST by
JustPiper
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