Someone left a pipe bomb in the landscaping along Occidental Road, Santa Rosa police reported. The home-made bomb was found Tuesday at about 2:45 p.m. along the 2100 block of Occidental. It was found near a sidewalk, said Sgt. Mike Lazzarini.
Officers blocked off the street to cars and pedestrians while the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad was called. Bomb officers rendered the four-inch galvanized steel device safe. It wasn’t known how long it was there and officers had no suspect information.
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Pipe Bomb Devices Found At Columbia College (California)
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Columbia, CA -- Law Enforcement is currently on the scene at Columbia College due to a bomb scare. Tuolumne County Sheriff's Lt. Dan Bressler says four pipe bomb devices have been found. He says they are located in the brush area between the dormitories and the motorcycle parking area on campus.
Bressler says the area has been secured, and the Calaveras County Bomb Squad has been called in to assist. Classes are still in session at Columbia. Law enforcement will not do anything with the bomb devices until activity quiets down. Bressler says it appears the bomb devices have been there for a while because they are showing “signs of weathering.”
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Suspicious Package Evacuates Maryland Metro
Mar 14, 2007 6:31 pm US/Eastern
ROCKVILLE, Md. The Rockville Metro and Amtrak stations have been evacuated while police investigate a suspicious package found on board an Amtrak train.
An Amtrak spokesman says that the report of the suspicious package came at about 5 p.m. About 140 passengers were taken off the train at the Rockville Station. He says they will have to wait until about 7 p.m. for the situation to be cleared. He says the item is being X-rayed. All Amtrak trains going through Rockville in both directions are delayed at least 90 minutes .
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer says the fire department, bomb squad and police are investigating the package. A Metro spokeswoman says that the Rockville Metro station was evacuated and closed at about 5:30 p.m. Bus service is taking passengers between the Twinbrook and Shady Grove stations.
On March 13, a bag was found in a gutter near a construction site in Khartsyzsk (Donetsk Region, Ukraine). A sign was found on the bag saying: “Caution! Radiation! Tashkent, 1970, Central Asian Atomprom,” press office of Ukraine’s emergency ministry told a REGNUM correspondent.
The bag was showing radioactivity 83 times more than normal. Distance to the nearest dwelling house is 500 m. Five hours after the dangerous bag was found, experts from Radon special center seized the source of radioactivity and sent it for utilization. According to assessment of the local sanitary inspection, the radioactivity of the soil where the bag was found does not exceed the maximum concentration limit. There is reportedly no threat to local population and the environment.
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Police announce arrests, confessions in Ain Alaq bus bombings (Lebannon)
March 14, 2007
Four people in Lebanese custody have confessed to involvement in the February 13 Ain Alaq twin bus bombing that left three people dead and 24 wounded, Interior Minister Hassan Sabaa said on Tuesday.
" We have arrested four Syrian nationals, and one is still at large," he told a press conference. " Through the use of sensitive information, we were led" to the suspects.
Those arrested are said to be members of the Fatah al-Islam extremist group, an offshoot from a Syrian-backed Palestinian group, Fatah al-Intifada. " Fatah al-Islam is part of Fatah al-Intifada, and we all know where their loyalties lie," said Sabaa.
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