D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel fought a fire that occurred on a bus traveling through downtown Washington early Wednesday morning. Witnesses say the fire broke out following an explosion that occurred just after it passed the Farragut North station located on "K" Street, Northwest. The incident occurred just after 5:30 a.m.
A local news station reported that there were three passengers and a driver on the bus when the explosion occurred. The people were able to get off the bus before the fire intensified. Personnel from the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department quickly extinguished the flames. The disabled bus is located in the 17-hundred block of "K" Street, Northwest. The incident remains under investigation.
The incident did not affect Metrorail operations at either the Farragut North or Farrragut West stations which are both located nearby.
Suspicious luggage causes delays outside D.C.
Jan 31, 2007
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Hundreds of commuters who use the Washington area’s transit system endured delays Wednesday morning because of a slow investigation of suspicious items found near a Metrorail station just outside the nation’s capital.
About 3 a.m., a Metro employee spotted two suitcases and a backpack near the bus waiting area of the Braddock Road station in Alexandria. But the items sat there for at least two hours because the city’s police do not have a bomb squad and “apparently, they couldn’t get a hold of anybody from Metro (police) until after 5 a.m.,” Alexandria police Lt. James Bartlett said. The station was closed when the luggage was discovered and did not reopen until about 7:30 a.m.
A few more details UPDATE:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1049112
"Metro Bus Catches Fire in Northwest"
Jan 31st - 9:50am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - Fire investigators on the scene of a Metro bus fire Wednesday morning believe the fire may have been caused by a brake or electrical problem, WTOP has learned."
Snip: The study, which claims to be the first of its kind, catalogs how students as young as 9 are conditioned to take part in a global jihad against "infidel oppressors" such as Israel and the United States.
Keith Ellison's offended foot-soldiers and what didn't offend the Muslims
Snip: Three former Islamic militants from the Middle East, Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, and Zachariah Anani, now reformed and warning the West of the danger of radical Islam, were to speak at the University of Michigan yesterday (30th January) in a public forum, billed as "The 3 Ex-Terrorists." They have fought for the militant wing of PLO in Palestine and had participated in acts of violence and terrorism against Israel. Shoebat had bombed an bombed Israeli Bank as a teenager. Anani was a teen militia fighter, where he was trained to kill Jews, according to www.3xterrorists.com claims to have killed 223 people.
As usual the proposed forum offended the Muslims. It should be added that Anani have received 'death threat' for his plan to participate in the event. Speaking about the danger of radical Islam is also a form of hate to the Muslims:
".. the head of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Imad Hamad, said "this is another form of hate...in the name of fighting terrorism."