Strange story
Packages found in Mt. Lebanon remain a mystery but are deemed harmless
Thursday, August 11, 2005
By Laura Pace, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Police and fire officials in Mt. Lebanon still do not know what was inside two suspicious packages found in the basement of an apartment building, but they do not believe anybody was exposed to any harmful chemicals. (snip)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05223/551819.stm
Is Mathew Stewart the terrorist with a twang?
FORMER army private Mathew Stewart has emerged as the chief suspect in the hunt for the masked terrorist with an Australian accent.
Stewart left home four years ago to fight alongside Osama bin Laden and has not been seen since.
Australian Federal Police officers wasted no time investigating Stewart as the hooded figure in the terror video aired on an Arab TV station.
AFP officers have interviewed his distraught mother, Vicky Stewart. She denied the heavily armed man was the missing son she had long believed dead.
But one of Stewart's close friends, Adam Miechel, said he believed the self-declared terrorist on the video was the man he grew up with in Mooloolaba, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. (snip)
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16233953%255E911,00.html
OPINION: CALL ME STUPID, but if you DON'T KNOW what the chemicals are; how do you know they are harmless?
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police and fire officials in Mt. Lebanon still do not know what was inside two suspicious packages found in the basement of an apartment building, but they do not believe anybody was exposed to any harmful chemicals."