"It's going to be deliberate, it will be precise and it will be overwhelming," U.S. General Mark Kimmitt said, speaking to reporters in Baghdad. He warned insurgents in the town of Fallujah to be prepared for U.S. forces to strike back following Wednesday's killing of four American contractors by a frenzied mob that dragged their charred bodies through the streets.
Televised footage of the act has provoked outrage from Americans in the United States and led U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer to issue a warning.
"Their deaths will not go unpunished," he promised.
The White House blamed the attacks on supporters of Saddam Hussein. The remains of the four were to be turned over to the U.S. military.
A day after the attack, three American soldiers were injured in another attack near Fallujah, this time when their Humvee struck a roadside bomb.
Better yet check out the thread "how come" Kerrys ss and bronze star was signed by lehman not chaffe, could get interesting.
Just another drunk who stole a pickup truck and crashed it into a fence at a fuel storage site and a "possible suspect." even though two men were spotted jumping out of the pickup and running away. No terrorism involved - ***wink wink*** per FBI investigation.
WARRANT SEARCH YIELDS GRENADE
Running Springs Pair Arrested on Weapons Charges
By Davey Porter
A couple living in the 30000 block of Silver Spruce in Running Springs were arrested and arraigned on felony weapons charges and child endangerment.
The charges arose in connection with a commercial burglary investigation being conducted by Sheriff's Detective James Bergendahl on Friday, April 16. The burglary occurred at the Unocal service station in Running Springs and Esther Dabell, age 23, was interviewed as she was a former employee there. The detective said Dabell had nothing to do with the burglary, but was merely interviewed as a recent former employee as is the case during the course of an investigation.
"During a routine interview with Ms. Dabell regarding the commercial burglary, information surfaced indicating there may be a live CS Gas military grenade at the residence," Detective Bergendahl revealed. "We wrote a search warrant and served it."
In addition to the live grenade, a WWII or Korean War-era 155mm shell was also confiscated. According to Dabell, the large, steel shell which stands nearly a yard high belongs to her father-in-law. "We contacted the father-in-law and he said it was his," Bergendahl said. "We confiscated it for safe keeping."
According to Bergendahl, should the Vietnam-era live grenade explode it would fragment and the CS gas would burn. "The sheriff's bomb and arson squad responded and examined the device," Bergendahl said. "After we took evidence photos the grenade was subsequently destroyed."
HUSBAND ARRESTED
On Sunday, April 18 following an interview regarding the same offense - possession of an explosive device - Esther Dabell's husband, Nolan Dabell, age 31 was arrested and taken into custody.
The couple were arraigned at the Twin Peaks Superior Court on Tuesday, April 20 on PC 12303.2., possession of any destructive device; and PC 273a. (a),
"The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department takes matters like these very seriously, and we will thoroughly investigate them," Bergendahl stressed. "Once our investigation is complete, we will turn cases like this over to the District Attorney for prosecution."
Bergendahl said the couple are each being held on $500,000 bail. The detective said when asked why the explosive was in their possession, Esther, who is a homemaker and Nolan, who is currently unemployed said they "just never got rid of it." Attempts to reach the Dabell's family members for comment were unsuccessful. At press time the Dabell's remained in custody.
The couple were also charged with child endangerment because their 18-month-old child was living in the vicinity of the explosive device. The child is reportedly now in the care of Esther Dabell's mother pending the outcome of the case.
California Penal Code 12303.2. states every person who recklessly or maliciously has in his possession any destructive device or any explosive on a public street or highway, in or near any theater, hall, school, college, church, hotel, other public building, or private habitation, in, on, or near any aircraft, railway passenger train, car, cable road or cable car, vessel engaged in carrying passengers for hire, or other public place ordinarily passed by human beings is guilty of a felony, and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of two, four, or six years.
California Penal Code 273a. (a) states any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any child, willfully causes or permits the person or health of that child to be injured, or willfully causes or permits that child to be placed in a situation where his or her person or health is endangered, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for two, four, or six years.
http://www.crestlinecourier-news.com/articles/2004/04/22/news/news1.txt
Plymouth yard yields grenade
By BILL SANDIFER Staff Writer
PLYMOUTH -- Residents got plenty of bang for their buck Wednesday afternoon during a downtown appearance by U.S. Senate hopeful Erskine Bowles.
As Bowles addressed a crowd of supporters, Plymouth police were summoning the Marines. The action had nothing to do with Bowles' opposition to an outlying landing field in the county, but it had everything to do with a hand grenade found in a Main Street backyard.
About 2:30 p.m., Cliff and Rhonda Carbary found the grenade while cleaning up debris around their vegetable garden.
"I just found it about 2 inches under the ground -- picked up a grenade -- whoa," said Cliff Carbary.
A former schoolteacher and history buff, Carbary said he recognized what it was immediately and carried it carefully to a large, open spot in the front yard, away from buildings.
A quick call to police led to the rusty artifact's being taken off Carbary's hands.
"They didn't know if it was a practice grenade, live ordnance or drilled out; take your pick," said Carbary.
That doubt resulted in a call to Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station's Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, said Plymouth Police Chief John Floyd, who explained the grenade was in a "secure location." How it made its way to the backyard, the chief wasn't disposed to say.
"It was covered in a good amount of rust," said Floyd, adding the pull ring was missing, but the pin and spoon -- detonating hardware -- were still in place. Floyd said one of his officers with a military background indicated the grenade appeared to be live, but "no possible way it can go off in his opinion."
The general consensus placed the item as a World War II-vintage grenade of either American or Japanese manufacture.
The Carbarys, however, tossed out a plausible explanation for how such a grenade could end up in a downtown Plymouth backyard -- not a known battle front.
The former residents -- the Atamanchuks -- had an appliance repair business, said Rhonda Carbary, and apparently had used the yard behind the garage as a dump for broken appliances and bad parts, a site the couple has been cleaning up since they moved in recently.
"He might've been in the service and picked (the grenade) up as a souvenir," she said, "and decided he didn't need it and just pitched it out the back door."
Regardless of its history, Plymouth Mayor Brian Roth -- always on the lookout for historic artifacts to draw interest -- said he'll ask the Marines to return the grenade after it's disarmed.
Roth said he wants to display it in a downtown museum.
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2004/04/22/news/news03.txt
Grenade Found at Goodwill Store
LAST UPDATE: 4/20/2004 6:17:52 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
They almost had a bang at the Goodwill Store on Interstate 10 in east San Antonio last night.
Workers who were going through items which had been donated to the store were shocked to find a hand grenade in a donation bin.
The store was evacuated and about 100 employees and customers were hurried out into the parking lot while the San Antonio police bomb squad was called in.
Officials quickly determined the grenade was inactive. Investigators think it was somebody's war souvenir, and whoever took it to the Goodwill store probably didn't realize it was included in the the pile of items they dropped into the donation bin. Foul play is not suspected.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=A2C22BF7-3BFF-4194-BD1C-7F78D79B8DE6
JAMUL – A homemade grenade exploded yesterday and injured a school maintenance worker who may have been trying to disarm the device, the Sheriff's Department said.
Terry Lee Garrison, 52, was airlifted to a hospital shortly after the grenade detonated in his hand about 9:20 a.m., sheriff's spokesman Chris Saunders said.
About a dozen employees were evacuated as bomb experts searched for more explosives at Oak Grove Middle School and two adjacent schools in the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District's complex on Lyons Valley Road. Classes were not in session because of the two-week spring break.
"We didn't hear anything," said Sandy Wilson, who was working in the district office several hundred yards from the explosion site.
A worker found the grenade and a pipe bomb and took them to Garrison, the district's maintenance director, at the district bus yard northeast of the school, Saunders said.
The grenade exploded in Garrison's right hand as he examined it. The worker had placed the device on the back of a flatbed truck.
Shrapnel from the metal casing tore through Garrison's forearm and nearly severed his thumb and index finger, Saunders said. Garrison was listed in fair condition at a hospital, a spokeswoman said.
Deputies found remnants of at least two other bombs in Oak Grove's parking lot, but it was unclear how long the materials had been there, Saunders said.
The explosion came less than a month after the sheriff's bomb squad trained several employees, including Garrison, on what to do if they find explosives. Garrison has worked for the district for about two years, said district
Superintendent Allan Gordon.
"They are supposed to leave it there and notify authorities," Saunders said.
Shock turned to restlessness as school workers waited for hours in one of the few patches of shade outside the district complex.
Had school been in session at the time of the explosion, about 1,700 students would have been in the area of Oak Grove Middle School, Jamul Intermediate School and Jamul
Primary School.
The schools are clustered between Olive Vista Drive and Lyons Valley Road.
"Thank goodness we were on spring break," Gordon said. "I just cannot fathom why somebody would do something so hideous."
No arrests had been made, but Gordon said the Sheriff's Department is reviewing tapes from a surveillance system at the middle school. As a result of the incident, the district will have security guards on its campuses 24 hours a day, Gordon said.
The Sheriff's Department will recheck the campuses for explosives before classes resume Monday, Gordon said.
The district also will hold assemblies Monday to instruct students and parents about what to do if they find a suspicious device.
The device that exploded was made by packing gunpowder into a small metal canister that holds carbon dioxide, Saunders said.
The other, unexploded device was a PVC pipe filled with gunpowder, Saunders said.
Investigators, including one from the FBI, were trying to determine who left the devices on campus.
Gordon said he doubted students were responsible.
"We have not had any threats," Gordon said. "We really don't have a lot of discipline problems at the school."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040415-9999-7m15bomb.html
Eviction Leads to Discovery of Narcotics, Grenades
HOLLYWOOD — Los Angeles police say officers found four hand grenades Friday while searching for narcotics in an apartment near Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
LAPD Officer Eduardo Funes says police were called after sheriff's deputies delivering an eviction notice spotted the drugs. Funes did not know the type of narcotics or why the tenant was being evicted.
Funes says a bomb squad was sent to the scene.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/041604_nw_threat.html
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You know, I can't locate the Kittyhawk's current location.....I am either getting braindead or just plain missed it somewhere!
See ,I'm thinking that's weird for all I get are terror alerts, so is that mean forests? ;)
