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Posted on Sun, Feb. 29, 2004
Eighth motorist reports possible I-580 shooting

By Liz Tascio

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

An eighth motorist has reported a possible shooting on Interstate 580 last week, and several have mentioned a dark pickup that may be connected to the attacks, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

The shootings echo a series of sniping incidents along the same freeway in San Leandro eight years ago. In January 1996, three teenage boys and a 22-year-old man spent three days firing at the freeway, hitting about a dozen vehicles and injuring one person. They told investigators they were bored.

The CHP is investigating last week's shootings and have not labeled them the work of a sniper.

"We've reinterviewed drivers (and) ... done some detailed inspections of the vehicles," said CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese. "We have also received a number of promising leads from the public."

Among those leads were reports of a dark, full-size American pickup driven by a white man in his 30s with a bald or shaven head who was seen in some of the incidents. Several drivers have said they saw the truck about the time they heard a loud noise and realized their vehicle had been struck by something.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8073937.htm

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Between Dublin and San Leandro - This had not been on the TV news at all. I have to go to Oakland this week and I am not looking forward to driving in that area.

Report: Deal for U.S. to Hunt Bin Laden in Pakistan

Feb 29, 1:10 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has struck a deal with Pakistan to allow U.S. troops to hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden this spring in an area of Pakistan where he is believed to be operating, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday.

Thousands of U.S. troops will be deployed in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan in return for Washington's support of President Pervez Musharraf's pardon of the Pakistani scientist who this month admitted leaking nuclear arms secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote in the issue that goes on sale on Monday.

Full disclosure of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's activities would have exposed him as "the worst nuclear-arms proliferator in the world," an intelligence official is quoted as saying.

"It's a quid pro quo," according to a former senior intelligence official. "We're going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan."

Musharraf has also offered other help in the hunt for bin Laden, accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, according to the article.

"Musharraf told us, 'We've got guys inside. The people who provide fresh fruits and vegetables and herd the goats' for bin Laden and his al Qaeda followers," the intelligence official added.

The spring offensive could slow the tempo of U.S. operations in Iraq, the magazine said.

"It's going to be a full-court press," one Pentagon planner was quoted as saying. The article added that some of the most highly skilled U.S. Special Forces units would be shifted from Iraq to Pakistan.

Special Forces personnel have been briefed on their new assignments and in some cases have been given "warning orders" -- the stage before being sent into combat, according to a military adviser.

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/381883|top|02-29-2004::13:26|reuters.html

Homemade bomb explodes in Naperville park (Illinois)
By Beth Sneller Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004
No one was hurt and no property was damaged when a small bomb exploded near Springhill Park in Naperville Friday evening.

Police are looking for the man who a witness said left the bomb at 5:32 p.m. on the 500 block of Milton Drive.

The man exited a newer model red Pontiac Grand Am or Ford Escort, left the bomb near the park, returned to his vehicle and left heading south, the witness told police. The suspect was wearing a black "hoodie," police said.

The bomb was homemade from a 2-liter plastic bottle. Explosive devices made from household appliances like this commonly are called "MacGyver bombs."

Anyone with information concerning the incident should call the Naperville Police Department at (630) 420-6666 or the Naperville CrimeStoppers Hotline at (630) 420-6066.

Homemade bomb explodes in Naperville park (Illinois)
By Beth Sneller Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004
No one was hurt and no property was damaged when a small bomb exploded near Springhill Park in Naperville Friday evening.

Police are looking for the man who a witness said left the bomb at 5:32 p.m. on the 500 block of Milton Drive.

The man exited a newer model red Pontiac Grand Am or Ford Escort, left the bomb near the park, returned to his vehicle and left heading south, the witness told police. The suspect was wearing a black "hoodie," police said.

The bomb was homemade from a 2-liter plastic bottle. Explosive devices made from household appliances like this commonly are called "MacGyver bombs."

Anyone with information concerning the incident should call the Naperville Police Department at (630) 420-6666 or the Naperville CrimeStoppers Hotline at (630) 420-6066.

http://www.dailyherald.com/dupage/main_story.asp?intID=380463