Posted on 12/15/2010 6:40:21 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON -- Authorities shut down the subway station at the Pentagon and diverted hundreds of passengers early Wednesday while investigating a suspicious package that may have been a blinking Christmas ornament.
Trains on the Washington area Metro system were forced to bypass the huge Defense Department headquarters after a package was discovered in the station just before 7:30 a.m., said Lt. Col. Robert Ditchey, a Pentagon spokesman.
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The federal authorities were probably on high alert because something related to Christmas was close to one of their buildings.
You mean a “Christmas” ornament?
DHS informed local police who shut down FBI monitoring of the Metro station again? :>
You mean a “Christmas” ornament?
Or is “Ramadan Ornament” a new euphemism for “pipe bomb”?
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