FREMONT — A suspicious device found at Ohlone College was destroyed by the county bomb squad Monday afternoon, but authorities have not yet been able to determine exactly what it was, police said.
The device, which looked a like soup can wrapped in duct tape with an M-80 firework sticking out of it, was spotted about 1:15 p.m. in the south parking lot of the campus, Fremont police Sgt. Chris Mazzone said.
Police cordoned off the area and called the bomb squad, which eventually used a water cannon to destroy the device, the sergeant said. When it blew up, there was a brief cloud of orange mist and some dried residue left behind.
The Fremont Fire Department's hazardous materials team then was dispatched to the scene, but could not immediately determine what the orange substance was. Police collected samples of it and sent it to a lab for analysis, Mazzone said. Anyone with information may call police at (510) 790-6900.
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Over 10 Arrested over Bomb in Varna (Bulgaria)
24 January 2007
Varna. More than 10 people with criminal records have been arrested for 24 hours in connection to an explosive device in the Bulgarian coastal city of Varna, the press office of the police announced. About 5 p.m. on Tuesday the police received operative information about an explosive device set in a car showroom in Varna. Experts managed to detonate the device on time. They said the explosive was equal to 400 grams of TNT.
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A man claiming to represent al-Qaeda in Australia has left a telephone message at an Arabic Australian newspaper threatening to kill its editor-in-chief and destroy its offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
Apparently reading from a script, the Arabic-speaking caller threatened to butcher every Iraqi Kurd and Shiite in Australia. ASIO and NSW police are investigating the message, left for al-Furat editor-in-chief Hussein Khoshnow 10 days ago. The caller claims his "well-structured organisation" will track down the names and addresses of the newspaper's reporters.
"We will destroy the newspaper's headquarters in Sydney very soon, God willing," the caller says. "We will destroy the newspaper's headquarters in Melbourne. You will be butchered. Every Iraqi Kurd and Shiite in Australia will be butchered." The threats, made on Sunday, January 14, were left on the answering machine in the newspaper's Fairfield office. They appeared to have been written down and then read over the phone in Arabic.
"Judging by the voice, I think it was a young man and from the way he spoke Arabic, his vocabulary and his accent, I think he might have been born here but of Yemeni or Syrian origin," Mr Khoshnow said.
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