A bomb squad is on its way to the Prince William Square shopping center across from the Potomac Mills mall where police say a suspicious package was placed inside a newspaper box.
Around 11 a.m., Prince William County police received a call that a man was seen placing a manila envelope inside a USA Today newspaper box outside of Dairy Queen, said Officer Marshall T. Daniel. Police are at the scene and have cordoned off the area around Dairy Queen, which has been evacuated. More businesses in the shopping center may be evacuated once the bomb squad arrives, police said.
Bomb-making items found in Goodyear home (Arizona)
Oct. 2, 2007
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says bomb-making materials were found in the West Valley Monday night. The situation forced the evacuation of a neighborhood . Everything unfolded across the street from a high school near Estrella Parkway and Yuma Road in Goodyear.
A robot and bomb squad were sent in to check out the house. Authorities got word that someone in the home wanted to buy chemicals and glassware on line. Police do have a suspect in custody and may be looking for a second person.
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London Waterloo Station Evacuated After Security Alert (U.K.)
Oct.2.2007
LONDON - LondonWaterloo station was partially evacuated just after midday Tuesday, after a security alarm in a baggage screening area was set off, a police spokeswoman said.
A man was detained by British Transport Police and the station reopened at 1.30 p.m. (1230 GMT), police said. The spokeswoman had no further information about the alert.
MIAMI — Seven men intended to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI buildings to ignite a guerrilla war that would overthrow the U.S. government and pave the way for an Islamic regime, federal prosecutors said today in opening statements.
FBI audio and video recordings show that the so-called "Liberty City Seven'' hoped to use street gangs as soldiers who would stage attacks, ranging from large-scale bombings of major buildings to poisoning salt shakers in restaurants, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Gregorie said. On one of the 15,000 FBI recordings, Narseal Batiste is overheard saying he would make sure no one survived destruction of the 110-story Sears Tower because his soldiers would be ready to shoot down anyone who escaped.
"These defendants wanted to wage jihad against the United States, and they tell us so in unequivocal detail,'' Gregorie told jurors. "They say 'the war has to be fought here. And it can't be just a bombing. It's got to be chaos.'''
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