Posted on 10/08/2010 6:25:42 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "BRANFORD, Conn. — Police and FBI agents Friday night said a tractor-trailer stopped in Branford, Conn., and suspected of carrying explosives was empty, NBC station WVIT of Hartford reported."
SNIPPET: "Police were told to be on the lookout for a brown Peterbilt tractor-trailer that may have a bomb in it that was en route from Rhode Island to New York City, the New Haven Register reported. Officers were told if they encountered it to stop it and create a perimeter and stand by. Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City.
In another incident, around 6:21 p.m. Friday, a Connecticut state trooper shot and killed a motorist after what police said was a routine traffic stop on I-84 near Danbury, the Courant reported. Danbury is about 45 miles away from Branford.
The driver opened fire on the officer, who returned fire and shot the motorist multiple times. The trooper was uninjured, the Courant said.
The two passengers fled."
SNIPPET: "On Wednesday, two men were found in a Mercedes with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, ammunition, gas masks and other materials."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
EXCERPTING doesn’t do this article justice.
Click on the link and read it.
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Thanks special emailer for the link to this article.
/johnny
Probing
Are the mooselimbs routing out the mole?
All the authorities are saying is that the truck they were looking for and stopped was EMPTY.
They didn’t say whether the driver and passenger are still in custody or whether any explosive or radioactive traces were found.
Also nearby,
Strange things going on in CT:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39584795/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
In another incident, around 6:21 p.m. Friday, a Connecticut state trooper shot and killed a motorist after what police said was a routine traffic stop on I-84 near Danbury, the Courant reported. Danbury is about 45 miles away from Branford.
The driver opened fire on the officer, who returned fire and shot the motorist multiple times. The trooper was uninjured, the Courant said.
The two passengers fled.
The highway was closed in both directions Friday night.
On Wednesday, two men were found in a Mercedes with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, ammunition, gas masks and other materials. Authorities say it’s unclear whether they planned to use the explosives because they are not talking to investigators. Both were being held on $500,000 bond.
Yes, well they just updated their thread.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39584795/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
“No bomb found in suspicious tractor-trailer
FBI surrounded truck off I-95 in Conn.; trooper kills motorist in I-84 traffic stop”
NBC News and news services
updated 11 minutes ago
I’ll check for updates later tonight and start new threads if something new pops up.
Meanwhile, the white Mac track filled with explosives got thru...
I’d question the source and immediately think disinformation
Deadheading!
No bomb found in THIS tractor trailor, but no word on whether there was a bomb and it was transferred to a different vehicle or whether the driver and passenger are still in custody.
Times are hard, semi trucks have to carry empty cargoes.
Empty? That’s just what the terrorists would like us to believe! /s
Trial run...decoys?
right.
Decoy truck or the bomb was offloaded onto another vehicle in CT.
...police and FBI agents Friday night said a tractor-trailer stopped in Branford, Conn., and suspected of carrying explosives was empty...
...troopers approached the vehicle and took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint...
...the state police bomb squad was en route...
...Police were told to be on the lookout for a brown Peterbilt tractor-trailer that may have a bomb in it that was en route from Rhode Island to New York City...
...a Connecticut state trooper shot and killed a motorist after what police said was a routine traffic stop on I-84 near Danbury...
...the driver opened fire on the officer, who returned fire and shot the motorist multiple times...
...on Wednesday, two men were found in a Mercedes with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, ammunition, gas masks and other materials...
..both were being held on $500,000 bond...
I figured the truck story was bogus.
But what is that about the pipe bomb??
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