Bomb squads shut down Military Trail between Summit and Forest Hill boulevards after a police dog indicated there may be an explosive device in a gold four-door Ford parked outside Auto Zone, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's officers arrived on the scene at about noon to assist federal immigration officials. According to officials at the scene, a man wanted on an immigration warrant was arrested at about 11 this morning.
A sheriff's dog alerted its handler that the car had an explosive device, prompting the sheriff's office to call in the bomb squad. Its unknown whether there is a bomb. The road remained closed as of 2 p.m. The sheriff's office is using a robot to examine the vehicle.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/07/05/0705bombsquad.html
Egyptian police seize large cache of explosives in northern Sinai
July 5, 2007
EL ARISH, Egypt: Egyptian police found more than 1,200 kilograms (2,650 pounds) of TNT explosives Thursday buried in a northern desert on the Sinai Peninsula, a police officer said.
Capt. Mohammed Badr of the northern Sinai police force said officials discovered the explosives using a tip from local Bedouins and were investigating who had buried them. The TNT was found in 27 plastic sacks near al-Raouda village, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of the border with the Gaza Strip, he added.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/05/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Explosives.php
US general paints dire scenarios
Brendan Nicholson
May 16, 2007 (excerpt)
THE bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not be the worst nightmare facing the world, a former top US general has warned. That could be a nuclear-armed Pakistan following a security meltdown or Saudi Arabia under extremist control, General John Abizaid told a conference in Canberra yesterday. “Those two countries are struggling mightily with the security implications that they have to deal with in regard to their external security problems, internal security problems and, in the case of Pakistan, with the fact that they happen to be a nuclear-armed country,” General Abizaid said. “A meltdown in the security apparatus of those two countries could have implications for us that make the current situation look easy.” . . .
He said the main security threat the West was likely to face for 20 to 50 years was from terrorist groups possibly armed with weapons of mass destruction rather than any serious conflict with another nation. . .