Breaking, unconfirmed: 3 Arabs detained on Williamsburg Bridge; bridge closed

WABC radio - NYC/FOX NEWS | 3/28/03 | self

[shhrubbery!]

WABC radio is reporting three persons of "Arabic descent" have been detained after leaving suspicious item on Williamsburg Bridge.

This bridge is one of the main routes into Manhattan from Brooklyn.

[Pharmboy]

go here for live broadband video feed of bridge

[Huck]

NOW they left the bridge in "some capacity" and they "might" have left a package...Get the picture?

I don't.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Doesn't appear to be so. According to FNC, right now, Williamsburg is closed the others are being inspected.

I can see the Brooklyn Bridge, which has remained open. The Manhattan Bridge was closed but appears to be being re-opened right now. They continued to send trains across it even when traffic was stopped. The Williamsburg appears to still be closed, although I can't see that one as well.

[Afronaut]

The Picture is:
Nothing to see here please move along...go shopping...

[Always Right]

FBI is uncertain if this is terrorist related..........

[lelio]

I don't.
In other words: move on, nothing to see here.
Putting a bet down that these people were anti-war protesters just trying to cause some trouble. Hey, its a free country doncha know?

[Huck]

I wasn't sure if that was what you were getting at. You think that the entire news media empire collaborates to suppress news?

[pitinkie]

CNN says the guys drank too much and thats why..a prnak

[pitinkie]

prank

[concerned about politics]

Putting a bet down that these people were anti-war protesters just trying to cause some trouble. Hey, its a free country doncha know?

Yeh. More of their "Right to free speach."

[Woodman]

Don't forget the Midtown and Brooklyn Battary Tunnel. It would be pretty hard to completely shut down access through an attack. I wonder if they are also being inspected?

[freeperfromnj]

FBI is uncertain if this is terrorist related..........

They are going to have a hard time explaining this one away so quickly. Middle eastern men don't go sliding down ropes off of major bridges every day. The public should demand answers on this one. It's almost exactly the time of morning that they've struck in the past.

[Cagey]

The Williamsburg bridge spans the East River and connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.

[Afronaut]

You cannot create panic in NYC. Yes I do believe that they suppress news all the time. They didn't repel on ropes because they arrested them on the bridge. Thats what a caller is saying now. He said that there was a lot a cops on top of them! heheh do mess with the NYPD

[lelio]

CNBC reporting a Reuters wire saying that either local officials or the FBI saying that this isn't terrorism related (*).

(*) terrorism is defined not to include people who vomit in the streets or chain themselves to a building, or just in general act like asses

[glock rocks]

Reuters?

whew. okay. all clear. move along... just a center wing tank. move along.

[shhrubbery!]

[Illbay]

LOL! How true!

[Trust but Verify]

That's if we got the right story to begin with.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

25+ years ago I knew a Lebanese Christian Girl from Springfield Gardens. Her mother worked for Air France at JFK. She had four sisters 8-19 years old. She took me over to her aunt's brownstone near Atlantic Avenue. Her aunt owned a service station on Atlantic Avenue and kept a Haitian girlservant in virtual endentured servitude in the basement. The Haitian girl who spoke no English, brought us tea and biscuits while wearing black-with-white-lace get-up straight out of P.G. Wodehouse.

It was strange-strange world. I'm sure it's only gotten stranger since.