Posted on 05/21/2008 10:35:03 AM PDT by grandpa jones
Two people have been taken into custody on suspicions of preparing acts of sabotage at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant on Wednesday morning, according to police and plant operators, reports the Kvällsposten newspaper.
A Swedish contractor was arrested on Wednesday when traces of highly explosive material were found on him as he was about to enter a nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, police and the plant said.
"At 8am we received a call from the nuclear plant at Oskarshamn. They told us one worker was stopped in the control. He had explosive material in his bags," Sven-Erik Karlsson of the Kalmar county police told AFP.
The company that operates the Oskarshamn plant, OKG, meanwhile said the man's bags contained "no visible illegal substances" but routine tests at the entrance to the plant "detected traces of explosives."
"We can see that our security routines functioned properly," the managing director of OKG, Lars Thuring, said in a statement, adding that the plant was collaborating with police.
Karlsson said the man, who was being interrogated by police, was a welder hired for temporary purposes, but could provide no further details on his age nor his background.
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It was also the same type of explosive that Al-Qaeda "shoe bomber" Richard Reid tried to use.
Insurgent Lapplanders?
I have heard that there are other products that can trigger a false positive for this explosive.
I would investigate, but unless they have more proof than the initial test they could be embarrassed over their announcement.
We don’t know yet. One suspect was “previously known by the police”. However, the explosives in the bag have now been downgraded to traces of explosives.
We’ll see. I will keep FR posted on any updates.
Lutefisk.... it was his lunch!.............
Lutefisk.....
The police know his background, of course, but the Swedish press is even more politically correct than the British press, which is even more politically correct than the American press. No one will say that the man is a moslem, but I would bet any amount of money that he is.
So far no more on the background of the two maintenance men. However, the authorities are taking this very seriously. One of the reactors have been closed down so that bomb disposal personnel and dogs can enter and search.
More tomorrow....
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