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Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In N.J.

A Jersey City woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass.

Niranjana Besai was leaving her house at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work at just after 8 a.m. when she saw the launcher on her front lawn. She immediately called police.

Besai's neighbor, Joe Quinn saw her pointing at the equipment from her front porch. When he walked over to the six-foot-long weapon, he was just as shocked. “It looked like a bazooka,” he told CBS 2 News.

Quinn tells CBS 2 HD he originally thought the launcher was just a pipe, but after noticing it had a picture of a soldier on it, he realized it looked similar to a missile launcher he'd seen on television.

Jersey City Police removed the launcher, and the incident is now being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Jersey City Police could not confirm whether it was actually operable.

But, sources tell CBS 2’s Scott Weinberger that it’s the kind of missile that can take down an aircraft and the area where the launcher was discovered is in or very near a flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.

Stay with wcbstv.com and CBS 2 HD for more on this developing story.

Explosives Found In Shed - Police Find Rockets From Russians (California)
July 19, 2007

LODI, Calif. -- A public storage facility located at 740 N Cluff Ave., in Lodi, Calif., was served a search warrant on Thursday for explosives, police said. Police said they searched a large storage shed on the premise in which a box marked "explosives" was found and removed.

They said they also found two rockets that they said seem to have come from a Russian aircraft, related to ejection seats. They said they obtained the warrant based on a tip that there were plastic explosives in the storage unit.

They said they believe they know the identity of the owner of the explosions, but they said they won't release his name because they said they believe he is a transient. Police said they are searching for more explosives by using a bomb robot.

http://www.kcra.com/news/13718104/detail.html

Rafah under curfew after bomb threat (Egypt)
Jul. 19, 2007

Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on Egypt's border town of Rafah Thursday following unconfirmed reports that Palestinian gunmen planned to blow up a border wall to allow thousands of Palestinians stranded on the Egyptian side to return home, a police official said.

Thousands of police and security forces also were deployed at Rafah and roads leading to the town were sealed off, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

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Old missile launcher found near NYC
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Posted on 07/20/2007 4:03:18 PM PDT by Hi Heels

Old missile launcher found near NYC Fri Jul 20, 3:11 PM ET

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - An old anti-tank missile launcher was found Friday on a lawn in Jersey City, just across the river from lower Manhattan.

The launcher was inoperable and posed no hazard, police said. They turned it over to Army officials at Fort Monmouth.

Army personnel identified the yard-long tube as an AT-4 anti-tank missile launcher, said fort spokesman Timothy Rider. Such launchers can only be used once to fire a missile, and soldiers determined that this launcher had been fired, he said.

“It can never be reloaded, but it still has the mechanism that can be useful for training,” Rider said, explaining that soldiers can learn to carry it on their shoulder and take aim.

Police and Army officials are investigating how the device ended up on the lawn. Officials said it appeared to be about 20 years old.