Highway Watch asks for help finding fuel tanker
By Lance Orr
On Oct. 14 the Highway Watch program's Highway ISAC issued a Be On the Lookout requesting help finding an apparently stolen tanker truck from Pennyslvania.
According to the BOLO release, an empty fuel tanker is missing from the parking lot of Pop's Grill on State Road 41 in Avondale, Pa. The Pennsylvania State Police believes the tanker was stolen between Oct. 7 and 10. Law enforcement has identified the trailer as a 1975 silver Trailmobile 40-foot fuel tanker with a VIN number of M40514 and no registration plate. The trailer has the number 109 in black, four-inch letters on the front.
Persons with information about the stolen tanker can call the Highway ISAC at (866) 821-3444, or email hwisac@trucking.org.
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Computers donated by South Korea stolen in Iraq
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SEO220432.htm
SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Armed Iraqis stole millions of dollars worth of personal computers and Internet equipment donated by South Korea while it was being transported near Baghdad late last month, a South Korean official said on Tuesday.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency, a government-linked aid agency, supplied the equipment for use in Iraqi universities, the official from the South Korean foreign ministry said.
"We have no confirmation on the identity of the militia," the official said by telephone on condition of anonymity.
He did not say when exactly the incident happened, but said that no South Korean aid workers were abducted in the heist of equipment valued at about $3.5 million.
The aid agency and the South Korean embassy in Iraq had contacted Iraqi authorities to try and recover the equipment, he added.
South Korea has 3,200 troops in Iraq on a peacekeeping and reconstruction mission, the third-biggest contingent of foreign troops after the United States and Britain.
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DC...ping to you...see SlowBoat's post #3245
FYI the area where this tanker was stolen has a large immigrant (illegal?) population. They mainly work in the local mushroom farms.