[aposiopetic]

"One of the issues that people don't understand is we get a lot of this," the official said. "There is a lot of footwork that goes behind these things either trying to validate or invalidate the information. It's up to the local authorities and the elected officials to make determinations based on the information they have."

Well said.

[OpusatFR]

Gosh. I was sure it was a Catholic nun or a Mormon.

I can't believe it.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

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[RebelBanker]

Here is some background:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504685/posts

[Dark Skies]

bttt

[sure_fine]

18 - 35 years in age?

[freeperfromnj]

BTTT

[nunya bidness]

More from the article:

Federal authorities are detaining at least one man of Egyptian origin who worked at a Middle Eastern market in Baltimore in connection with a threat that closed Interstate 95 and the Harbor and Fort McHenry tunnels after concern over a suspected terrorist plot to blow up one of the tunnels.

According to the source who has been briefed on the investigation, the detained man is associated with Koko market in the 6000 block of Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown. There are unconfirmed reports on the WJZ-TV Web site that the plot involved taking a bomb-laden delivery truck from the market into a tunnel, where it would be detonated.

[2banana]

I can't believe he was not a 65 year old Slovakian woman here legally...

[big'ol_freeper]

Well there's a surprise for ya.

[Sub-Driver]

ROP

[Stashiu]

Ok. Fess up. You're really Sen. Mikulski? Your sig block gives you away.

[No Blue States]

Someone forgot the "We have no reason to believe this is related to terrorism" quote..

[hispanarepublicana]

Probably just an isolated, depressed, angry non-terrorism-related individual acting alone. OU President David Boren told me so.

[tomahawk]

It can't possibly be a Muslim Egyptian man, he is a practitioner of the Religion of Peace(TM) as certified by President Bush.

It must have been the 85 year old grandmother with Alzheimers at the local nursing home, the one who got frisked and wanded at the airport several weeks ago while Ahmed boarded the plane without any questions.

[PAR35]

Federal authorities are detaining at least one man of Egyptian origin

That can't be right. The MSM was telling us that the Feds were saying that the warning wasn't credible.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Southern Baptists?

[kinghorse]

Guilt in such crimes should be punishable by going away for 99 years. No room for equivocation dealing with bomb threats. the simply act of threatening is enough to shut down commerce.

[newzjunkey]

Let's hope they've got this entirely under control if it's the "real deal" and that there isn't more waiting to strike.

(LTGM: Love the freeper name!)

[RetiredArmy]

I'm sure it is all just an honest mistake and he was misunderstood when he made his threat. Just a simple mistake. Let him go home to his loving family now.