Posted on 06/06/2002 12:24:29 PM PDT by chief911
Explosive device found at bridge-tunnel The Virginian-Pilot © June 6, 2002
NORFOLK -- A small explosive device was found this morning inside a ventilation building near the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel.
Details about the device were not immediately available, but police said it was not large enough to have caused damage to the tunnel.
An employee of the Virginia Department of Transportation discovered the device between 8 and 8:30 a.m. today. A State Police bomb squad "rendered the device safe," a police spokesman said.
The bomb has been disarmed and does not pose any danger, police said.
More details will be reported as they become available.
No one was injured by the device and traffic through the tunnel was never stopped.
The investigation of the incident is continuing. Police said they have no suspects.
By disarming it. By making it so certain parts of the works must be reconstructed in a certain way before it can go off.
Oh that's right - it wasn't a "suggestion" it was a "warning".
Yes, they both worship the same God. Tim called his God self, and Islam calls their God Allah but the mail goes to the same place.
Was it THAT long ago?...I thought it was '96 for some reason, but yes I remember it. That SEEMS like an obvious target, but it wouldn't cut off transportation to the max number of people possible.
After September 11th, we were trying to figure out where the terrorists could get the most (PLEASE PARDON THIS) bang for their initial investment...the best choices are obviously those which could cause the biggest pain in the neck for the largest number of people. There's the horror factor, of course, but what they hate most about us is our conveniences....if I were a terrorist, going for the absolute max damage and inconveniece, combined with horror, the Bay-Bridge tunnel would be a rather obvious target. Youve got location, you've got transportation, and you've got the ocean....do it at high tide, when the moon is full, and especially if there is a storm surge coming....of course, you would ALSO be going after one of the best protected pieces of real estate in the country. But if you were crazy and wanted to show you weren't afraid of the giant - naturally you'd have to outdo the Pentagon strike - the Bay-Bridge tunnel would be one of those golden-ring articles ; very tempting.
We have one advantage over the terrorists that our government isn't paying enough attention to : they DID miscalculate on 9-11. They miscalculated BAD. They are now forced to factor CONSEQUENCES into their target choice, as well as result - WITH less brain power than they had to count on BEFORE 9-11. They hadn't figured on all that.
I wonder if they plan on massive highway destruction.
20 goons with cars and exposives could cause a lot of trouble on freeways.
What if someone got a tugboat pushing barges and rammed it into uh...never mind.
reason no one else did mention that is not becuase its not hurting that thay or thier loved ones could be killed in a tragig death!!
its just that we all invest our pain and peace for our muslim brothers who are the real victims of those following thier religion
we have to show love to our muslim brothers who choose to come here to the free world since its very couragous
let me insert a copey of thier quoran
Abu Afak, a man of great age (reputedly 120 years) was killed because he lampooned Mohammad. The deed was done by Salem b. 'Omayr at the behest of the Prophet, who had asked, "Who will deal with this rascal for me?" The killing of such an old man moved a poetess, Asma b. Marwan, to compose disrespectful verses about the Prophet, and she too was assassina
What alarms me the most about Islam is its disposition to violence and use of violence as a standard of God's will.
`Umayr is a perfect example of this. Here is a Muslim man, a friend of Muhammad's, acting upon Muhammad's request and going into a woman's home under the cover of night. He comes upon the women, sleeping in her bed with her child, and murders her by plunging a sword through her body.
thay were not thought love thay studied sura :9 in quoran saying all infidels should be killed and still thay are here in the free world and runing away from islam nations teaching children to kill at age 10
ted.
June 24th, 1993.
I pulled that straight from personal memory, believe it or not (my memory being... spooky, at times :-)
If there was only one God there wouldn't be more than one religion. Unfortunately, man worships everything but God.
We've only got ONE country; but look at how many POLITICAL PARTIES we have!
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