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To: Cindy; All

Not sure if this was posted here yet. Reality check!

AMERICAN PASSPORTS FOUND ON BODIES OF AL QAEDA FIGHTERS IN SOMALIA

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185 posted on 01/05/2007 1:40:11 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: freeperfromnj

Thank you freeperfromnj for the update.


186 posted on 01/05/2007 1:40:59 PM PST by Cindy
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To: freeperfromnj; Cindy; nwctwx; All
Thanks for that info ffnj, interesting.

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Update:

Man charged after suspicious package found
January 5 2007

NORWALK - Police arrested a Stamford man last night after employees at a UPS distribution center opened a package and found explosives.

Theoeoros Papadopoulos, 27, of 44 Brown Ave., was charged last night with first-degree breach of peace, criminal impersonation and second-degree forgery. He was held on $1 million bond.

Called to the UPS facility on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive just after noon, the Stamford police Bomb Squad deployed a remote control robot and determined that two cylindrical objects inside the box were flash grenades used as training aids by the military and police, Stamford police Lt. Sean Cooney said. UPS employees said that just after 11 a.m., a man came in to claim a package but lacked proper identification, Norwalk police Sgt. Ronald Pine said. Employees, believing the man might be receiving a package of drugs, opened the package after he left and found two small cylindrical objects marked explosives, police said.

An employee took the package outside, about 100 feet from the nearby Metro-North Railroad tracks, and called police at about 11:30 a.m. Police responded and called Metro-North. Two trains traveling between South Norwalk and Rowayton stations were delayed by about 50 minutes from noon to 1 p.m. while police investigated, railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said.

Several houses on the other side of the tracks on Bouton Street within a 300-foot perimeter set up by police were evacuated, Pine said. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive remained open because it was outside the area, Pine said. The Stamford Bomb Squad, the only bomb squad in lower Fairfield County, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also responded. "There didn't appear to be anything of federal interest" at the scene and the investigation was handled by Norwalk police, said Andy Anderson, a spokesman for the ATF field office in New Haven.

A UPS spokesman could not be reached for comment last night. The robot, equipped with a camera, spotted the manufacturer's name and telephone number on the two objects, which were about the size of a grenade, Cooney said. The manufacturer was called and the two objects were determined to contain only a small amount of explosives.

Police cleared the area and set up surveillance of the UPS center in hopes the man would return to claim the package. Papadopoulos returned with fake identification and was taken to Norwalk police headquarters. Police declined to say where the package was sent from. Norwalk police Detective Bureau head Lt. Thomas Cummings said the case was still under investigation.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.ups5jan05,0,2438741.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines

192 posted on 01/05/2007 2:21:48 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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ON THE NET...

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232 posted on 01/06/2007 12:49:35 AM PST by Cindy
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