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Police seek van with suspicious cargo
The Boston Globe ^
| 11/3/2001
| By Jenny Jiang and Fran Riley, Globe Correspondents
Posted on 11/03/2001 3:02:25 AM PST by be-baw
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:06:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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After days of preparing for vague threats, police departments across the state last night had a tangible menace to chase: A rented van with a cargo of possible bomb-making materials was stopped at a Cambridge mall and sped away before police arrived.
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To: SarahW
This is getting curioser and curioser.
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posted on
11/03/2001 11:24:17 AM PST
by
Azzurri
To: SarahW
NOw when is someone going to give us the scoop on what the FBI found out?
122
posted on
11/03/2001 11:25:00 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: cajungirl; Mitchell; Henk
PING
123
posted on
11/03/2001 11:28:44 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: SarahW
I'll bet that between 7:00 PM EST and now, the drivers may have ditched the cargo. I pray the FBI has the correct perps. It's dang suspicious since the van sped away without the mall security guy's permission. I'll also bet that we may hear very little of this incident because of a government economic worry that shoppers will avoid malls this coming holiday season.
124
posted on
11/03/2001 11:35:45 AM PST
by
demnomo
To: demnomo
They did have time to ditch cargo. If they had explosives or fertilizer in the truck, think that traces would be present?
I want to know who the drivers were.
125
posted on
11/03/2001 11:38:19 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: demnomo
A scanner snippet a little earlier this afternnon mentioned stuff being poired out the back of a truck.
Another mentioned a truck (apparently pulled over) as "hauling fish"
No way to tell if either of these snippets has to do with THE truck. If so, maybe they were explaining or trying to hide smell with fish?
Please forgive human tendency to form narrative with string of temporally related events...
126
posted on
11/03/2001 11:42:07 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: SarahW
Good job, Sarah, (and others) with your realtime reports!
127
posted on
11/03/2001 11:53:27 AM PST
by
Aliska
To: Aliska
Caveat -
Another scanner blip saying bolo cancelled, truck found, operators questioned and (this time) TRUCK CLEARED.
However, it ocurred to me that this was from a truck spotted earlier today, maybe not THE truck.
Sure would like to know the whole scoop.
128
posted on
11/03/2001 12:05:28 PM PST
by
SarahW
To: SarahW
I spoke with a friend who worked for the San Francisco Police Department. She said that bomb squad dogs could probably smell residual scents left by the van when it was stopped in front of the mall. Don't know if that is the case. I wonder. Has the story made any other news outlet? The Ryder van could be in New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvannia or Washington DC by now!
129
posted on
11/03/2001 12:54:17 PM PST
by
demnomo
To: demnomo
Amother blip at 5:04 EST - saying that the operators of the truck were "cleared of any activity." Hmm
130
posted on
11/03/2001 1:06:27 PM PST
by
SarahW
To: demnomo
I'll also bet that we may hear very little of this incident because of a government economic worry that shoppers will avoid malls this coming holiday season. That's what it is beginning to look like. The American sheeple are now the canaries in the well. Why oh why do we have to wait until they do some more terrible things before we get them out of the country? The ones here on visa I mean, not the citizens.
131
posted on
11/03/2001 1:22:58 PM PST
by
Aliska
To: NautiNurse
Didn't they hear the driver of the van say "Yo Querio Taco Bell"?
132
posted on
11/03/2001 1:26:14 PM PST
by
exmoor
To: exmoor
"Yo Querio Taco Bell"
A few weeks ago, Jay Leno was reading 'classified ads' from "The Afghanistan Newspaper" on the Tonight Show.
One advertisement was selling men's T-shirts boldly stating, "I AM REALLY MEXICAN."
To: NautiNurse
LOL
134
posted on
11/03/2001 2:01:24 PM PST
by
exmoor
To: Samwise
Probably not. If he had a gun, he might hurt someone--like a terrorist or something.Would probably be charged with a hate crime...ignorant capitalist lackey drawing down on Middle Eastern Muslims shortly before Ramadan, or something like that.
To: SarahW
Sarah,
Thanks for all your good, hard work on this!
NECN (New England Cable News) just reported that the drums in the van contained solvents and the van belonged to a waste disposal company.
Needless to say, everyone is (deservedly) praising the alert security guard for erring on the side of caution.
FR had a 24-hour jump on this one! Great work, FReepers!!!
TXnMA
136
posted on
11/03/2001 3:11:38 PM PST
by
TXnMA
To: TXnMA
Thank YOU for the update - I really wanted to know what was in the barrels!
Solvents, huh...
Waste disposal company... Amy word on why they were at the mall? I sure don't want anyone dumping out tricloroethyl -benzowhatzits, etc. in the parking lot.
Any word on why they ran away from the guard?
137
posted on
11/03/2001 3:35:03 PM PST
by
SarahW
To: mostlyundecided
138
posted on
11/03/2001 3:45:22 PM PST
by
jackbob
To: mostlyundecided
139
posted on
11/03/2001 3:56:45 PM PST
by
jackbob
To: jackbob; SarahW
Thank you Sara for being our eyes and ears. My suspicion is that the truck was going in to clean the equipment in a restaurant. They use powerful stuff for the stoves in those places, and the grills. Odd they ran away, maybe illegals or something. And why would they use a ryder truck?
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