Arrest Made in Suspicious Powder Scares
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June 2, 2005, Des Moines -A Marshalltown man is in jail tonight, charged as a terrorist. He's accused of mailing suspicious powder and threatening to blow people up. And it might have been some household cleaners that set him off.
Investigators connected the man to two separate powder incidents in the metro in recent weeks. Investigators say their case with 46-year-old Anand Nariboli started with simple household chemicals.
They say Nariboli was upset that they didn't clean properly. So he mailed a letter in February to the company that made them, Dow Chemical in Milwaukee. They say Nariboli threatened to blow up the FBI and wrote "I will exterminate westerners and destroy all buildings in the west the next day." Then, on May 19th, part of Mercy Medical Center shut down for hours after a US Postal worker said she'd been exposed to some type of powdery substance.
Authorities say Nariboli mailed the letter containing rat poison with a statement that said all Western Europeans will be "inflicted by pain more painful than all the weapons in the universe tomorrow."
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Alarm out for missing truck with fertilizer
By Christine Green
Arkansas security officials reported information concerning a missing J&M Transport truck with a load of fertilizer on June 1. J&M is based in Cabot, Ark.
Randy McDaniel, 50, received a 51,000-pound load of urea fertilizer in Little Rock on May 25. McDaniel never reached the intended destination in Stuttgart, Ark., according to Highway ISAC and Mark Tabor of the Transportation Security Administration, who is based at Little Rock National Airport.
The fertilizer and vehicle are still missing. The driver has not made contact with his girlfriend or family members, officials said. They noted that former President Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Little Rock June 3.
Urea fertilizer can be used to make explosives.
The missing truck is a red 1996 Volvo with Arkansas plate F254068. It has a J&M Transport logo on the door, and a white trailer with Oklahoma plate 2106FB.
Anyone with information can contact Doug Freeman, at (501) 221-9100, or Tabor, at (501) 372-8384.
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