Posted on 03/11/2003 9:29:21 AM PST by dd5339
For the last hour the Federal courthouse in Kansas City Missouri has had traffic blocked off for a 1 block perimeter by local police. About 30 minutes ago, there were several vehicles parked out front, (ambulance, fire trucks and an unmarked white truck).
Just now we observed a member of the bomb squad, (protective jacket and helmet) place a device next to the supposed suspicious package and then retreat back to the unmarked white truck. The official vehicles have pulled back to the one block perimeter.
Does anyone else in the KC area have any more information?
When I was a newspaperman covering Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm, I often wore desert camouflage *chocolate chip* fatigues with a nametag for our flagship newspaper, [located in Knox County] where the *U.S. Army* tag was for most of the troops. Since the space for characters was limited to 16 characters, it had to be abbreviated to read *K.C. Daily News*
Hey, if the press office folks thought it was a Kansas City newspaper, that wasn't my problem. I was going to cover the Turks' entry from the north into Baghdad anyway, as in that war, the Turks were certainly on our side.
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