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PACKAGE AT PORT OF MIAMI POSED NO THREAT! (No Explosives - Contained Sprinkler Parts!)
Yahoooooo via ^ | 1/8/07

Posted on 01/08/2007 1:19:20 PM PST by areafiftyone

MIAMI - The Port of Miami was hit by its second terrorism scare in two days Monday when a package that was to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosives. Authorities later determined it was harmless.

The package was initially tested six times, and each time it came back positive for the military-grade explosive known as C4, the Coast Guard said.

The package was then destroyed, and a Miami-Dade County police bomb squad determined it contained sprinkler parts, said Zach Mann, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami.


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To: areafiftyone
Why were they loading sprinkler parts onto a cruise ship in the first place? No lawns to water in the middle of the ocean you know.

A ship might have fire sprinklers, but I would think that would be a package they were expecting.

Six positive tests for C4 is still troubling.

21 posted on 01/08/2007 1:27:07 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: areafiftyone

Plastic explosive in a pipe bomb made of sprinkler piping?


22 posted on 01/08/2007 1:27:21 PM PST by idkfa
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To: RobRoy

So we can't detect C4, huh?


23 posted on 01/08/2007 1:27:33 PM PST by Raebie
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To: El Gato

I think their testing is off! I think things are testing positive when they really aren't.


24 posted on 01/08/2007 1:27:42 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

Why are sprinkler parts being loaded onto a cruise ship?

Do they have a golf course on that ship that needs watering?


25 posted on 01/08/2007 1:28:10 PM PST by Deo volente
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To: idkfa

No Explosives just sprinkler parts. I think their testing is off.


26 posted on 01/08/2007 1:28:23 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
But of course this is a conspiracy/coverup, because paranoids 100 miles away munching on tinfoil while typing know the actual contents of the package, as opposed to the responding bomb squad.

Presumably the bomb squad are the ones who did the tests and determined that C4 was present.

Gonna have to check where those sprinkler parts had been.

27 posted on 01/08/2007 1:28:42 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Deo volente

Sometimes Cruise ships take on mail or deliveries.


28 posted on 01/08/2007 1:28:57 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: El Gato

seems to me fox reported the sprinkler parts were to be used in a renovation of the sprinkler system on the ship..


29 posted on 01/08/2007 1:29:20 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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To: areafiftyone

A case of media pornography.

Sprinklers are used by the landscaping industry. That industry also uses nitrates for fertilizer. The same chemical family of nitrates used in C4 (McVeigh used nitrate fertilzer as did the rags that blew up the WTC garage in 1993).

The test came back positive for nitrates, some "journalist" asked what that meant and the Port Authority representative says, "it can be used in explosives like C4."

Voila! C4 is much more "pornographic" than "fertilizer".


30 posted on 01/08/2007 1:29:28 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: areafiftyone

A safe package, containing sprinkler parts was senselessly destroyed today when chemical checks continued to misidentify some unknown residue as pertaining to the explosive "C-4". Senseless. Just horribly senseless.....


31 posted on 01/08/2007 1:29:37 PM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://realitycheck.blogsome.com)
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To: green iguana
You laugh, but someone's grass is gonna die because of this...

Why is everything always about the Hippies?

32 posted on 01/08/2007 1:29:38 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: El Gato

"C4?"

"You sank my cruiseship!!"


33 posted on 01/08/2007 1:30:29 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: You Dirty Rats
Why is everything always about the Hippies?

Because they CARE ABOUT GRASS MAN!! IT"S GOOD STUFF DUDE!! ;-)

34 posted on 01/08/2007 1:31:07 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Kooks greatly saddened......
It does make me wonder about the ability of the Keystone Cops and all their high tek equipment that cannot differentiate between C4 explosives and plastic sprinkler parts! (tested six times!)
35 posted on 01/08/2007 1:31:30 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Rick.Donaldson

The Senseless Slaughter of Sprinkler Parts! What is this country coming to!


36 posted on 01/08/2007 1:31:58 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: Rick.Donaldson

Well, the senseless destruction of sprinkler parts is preferable to the senseless destruction of people.


37 posted on 01/08/2007 1:32:13 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Raebie

If there were six positive tests, I can only assume that SOME C4 was there - kind of like cocaine on money.


38 posted on 01/08/2007 1:33:18 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Kooks greatly saddened.

UpChuck Schumer is indeed saddened!

39 posted on 01/08/2007 1:33:34 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

This is totally embarrassing. The terrorists can shut down our ports, and tank our markets by planting sprinkler heads.

Do we have Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau running our port security?


40 posted on 01/08/2007 1:35:22 PM PST by UWconservative
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