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To: BurbankKarl

We can cancel the infa-red railroad device links!


http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=37853

Authorities say the electronic motion detector found in the Powellton railyard on May 5th -- setting off a flurry of investigation by anti-terrorism experts -- was placed there by a SEPTA employee for his own personal use.

SEPTA received word from the FBI that it was a SEPTA worker on the midnight shift that placed the device in the railyard near 30th Street Station, to alert him when his supervisor approached.

SEPTA director of security James Jordan:

"We have not completed our investigation, so we cannot say with certainty, but what we know now is consistent with him sleeping on the job, and setting up this device to be awakened as his supervisor approached."

Jordan says the worker also worked part-time for a security firm, which is how he came into possession of the motion detector.


The incident is still being investigated by the SEPTA office of inspector general, who is also looking into why it took SEPTA a week to turn the device over to law enforcement authorities. But, Jordan says, they are now treating the incident as an employee misconduct matter -- not a terrorism threat.

The worker, who was not identified, is still on the job but faces disciplinary actions that could include losing his job.


2,399 posted on 05/24/2004 9:06:36 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

You know something is real strange here. I saw the almost exact story about a year ago...Don't rmember where!


2,420 posted on 05/24/2004 9:20:38 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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