Bomb squad blows up 2 devices at Milwaukie (OR) school

KGW.COM ^ | 10/29/04 | TERESA BELL

[Knitting A Conundrum]

MILWAUKIE, Ore. -- Police said a bomb squad blew up two suspicious devices at a high school in North Clackamas County Friday morning, the day after officials decided to close the school due to several bomb threats.

A robot was used to destroy the two devices just before 11 a.m., according to deputy Joel Manley with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

“The North Clackamas School District put together a team of searchers and they found a backpack within the school building that was beeping every ten seconds,” Manley said “They also found another device that looks like a pipe bomb under the school’s bleachers at the football field.”

Once the two devices were disposed of, Manley said three bomb-sniffing dogs would do a more extensive search of the building and surrounding area, for more suspicious devices.

Rex Putnam is located at 4950 SE Roethe Road in Milwaukie, Ore. It’s part of the North Clackamas School District.

The school superintendent told KGW Thursday night tha teachers and students would be asked to stay home Friday and authorities would search the school building. But he would not give any more information about the reported threats.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Been seeing several small events like this the last few days. Is this a trend - an election-linked trend to frighten people? Between this and the events today in Winston-Salem, I am wondering if it's just par for the course. But at this one they did find explosive devices. Maybe we need to pay attention to what's happenng?

[appalachian_dweller]

Threat Matrix ping.........

More activity folks. Kind of chilling after learning of the guy in Iraq w/ School Crisis plans.

Could be kids playing a sick joke, but no need to take chances. We are in a high threat time window.

Stay vigilant.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Or maybe it was just a backpack with an ordinary electronic device, and some sprinkler plumbing parts.

They don't bother to tell us what the devices turned out to be.

[oolatec]

My cell phone beeps every 10-15 seconds if there was a call I didn't answer...

[Oorang]

Last night's 10pm local news (Portland,Oregon) said the school would be closed today. Reason given was some building maintenance problem. Uh-huh.

[RhoTheta]

appalachian_dweller (... Basic list of survival gear @ my FR Homepage)

Good list! Is there a "Threat Matrix Ping List?" I wouldn't mind being on it.

[Issaquahking]

Thanks for the ping!

As reported by the Columbia Newsblaster...

Law enforcement officials in Portland, Ore., have charged a Lebanese man who apparently has links to a Middle Eastern terrorist group with felony weapons violations for allegedly lying about his criminal record when he tried to buy an assault rifle this year. Kroeker also said the suspect has told police he received training at Lebanese guerrilla camps, and that at the man's Portland home police found a plaque with the name " Hamas "? the guerrilla group that has been staging suicide bombings in Israel.

Police who arrested Ali Khaled Steitiye, 39, in late October said they found a small cache of weapons, as well as ammunition, fake credit cards, phony citizenship documents and $20,000 during searches of his apartment and vehicle.

Authorities found a plaque with the word " Hamas " and a calendar with Sept. 11 highlighted at the home of a Lebanese man arrested on a weapons charge, police said Tuesday.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/archive/summaries/85/12_13_01_35.html

The bold text says it all. I'm surprised it's not mentioned in the article. /sarcasm

Thanks for the post, ex-Texan.

17 posted on 12/26/2002 8:40:05 PM PST by dixiechick2000

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To: ex-Texan

The task force targets include the leader of a conservative local mosque

Notice how they slipped that one in? Cute, aren't they?

18 posted on 12/26/2002 9:04:08 PM PST by B Knotts

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To: B Knotts

Time to dust off that favorite of ours re Mayor Katz welcoming the Islamofacists and Islamokazis who would love to kill all of us:

19 posted on 12/26/2002 10:37:14 PM PST by Grampa Dave

The wet side of Oregon has some serious problems for quite some time now...and terrorists know that "green groups" are total idiots when it comes to any thinking skills required to defend this nation.

[B Knotts]

The task force targets include the leader of a conservative local mosque

[Grampa Dave]

Time to dust off that favorite of ours re Mayor Katz welcoming the Islamofacists and Islamokazis who would love to kill all of us:

[elder5]

My favorite Portland terrorist

Portland PD should have shot him down, But ol' Vera Katztro wouldn't let 'em.

Got the dirt bag anyway stealing a bolt cutter in B.C.

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping

[dixiechick2000]

Whoa! Deja Vu all over again. ;o)
In further news, the football game will go on,
but the homecoming dance has been postponed.



This area is crawling with all kinds of possible
terror types...muslim...green...you name it. We're
very diverse, where terror is concerned.
Check out my 'hood.


"BEAVERTON -- Federal agents on Thursday arrested a Beaverton man who allegedly used 29 guns -- including a mounted .50-caliber anti-aircraft gun -- to guard a marijuana-growing operation in his home next to an elementary school."

http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/1099052142177610.xml

Thanks for the ping. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

TRE ARROW!

To know him is to loathe him. ;o)

[Issaquahking]

Portland PD should have shot him down, But ol' Vera Katztro wouldn't let 'em

Would that also be known as -
"Vera, and the dingbats (her administration)"?

[nw_arizona_granny]

The school warning has turned out to be real.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!