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N.Y. SUITCASE SCARES SPUR TERROR 'DRY RUN' FEAR
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/23505.htm

"During the past week and a half, the K-9 Unit has responded to approximately five calls for unattended/suspicious packages which they cleared," the confidential bulletin stated.

"However, uniquely, all cases involved empty suitcases.

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SIMILAR INCIDENTS IN LOS ANGELES -- The Media is not making the connection, I hope the FBI does.

Police Detonate Suitcases Near High School (Los Angeles)

POSTED: 5:02 pm PDT April 29, 2004
UPDATED: 7:31 pm PDT April 29, 2004

LOS ANGELES -- Thursday, a day when a terrorist threat against Westside shopping malls had people on edge, authorities took no chances when they were alerted to a couple of abandoned suitcases on a Glendora street and blew them up.

Actually, Glendora police spent more than three hours trying to find the owner of the bags, a dispatcher said.

They also called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which dispatched a bomb squad.

When the owner could not be found, the bomb squad blew up the suitcases, then determined they had been empty.

Police found the suitcases at Palopinto and Rodeo roads, south of the Glendora High School, about 1:30 p.m., a police dispatcher said.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3252298/detail.html

Just an accident, involving fuel tankers, and Afghanistan.

At Least 25 Killed in Afghan Explosion : KABUL, May 02: Two fuel tankers exploded today in a bustling marketplace in western Afghanistan, killing at least 25 people in what appeared to be an accident, the Afghan government said. A provincial official said 32 were killed. Up to 40 more people were reported injured in the blast in Azizabad. Herat provincial government spokesman Ghulam Mohammad Masoum said repair work on a tanker truck appeared to have triggered the devastating blast. ``The driver stopped in Azizabad to get some welding done on the vehicle,'' Masoum said. ``It must have ignited the gas. There was another fuel tanker parked nearby, and it exploded too.'' The blasts ignited more fuel at a nearby gas station. The explosions destroyed cars and shops, and bodies were scattered across the marketplace. Most of the injured were rushed to hospitals in the city of Herat, 50 miles to the north. Masoum said 32 people were killed and 35 injured. In Kabul, a statement from President Hamid Karzai's office said at least 25 people were killed and 40 injured and that the president was ``deeply saddened by the news of the terrible accident.'' (Guardian) (Posted @ 23:15 PST)