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Compiling a list of suspicious incidents nationwide, including train derailments, chemical/oil refinery fires and or explosions, etc. Don't forget to include news link for source. Please send to my attention.

<p>Gasoline tanker explodes on I-70 at Bircher about 7:30 p.m.; all lanes closed.</p>

07/31/2002 Associated Press SAN ANTONIO - Another tractor-trailer rig filled with undocumented immigrants has turned up - this time on the eastern fringe of San Antonio. San Antonio police went to the Petro truck stop on Interstate 10 about 1 a.m. Wednesday after a witness reported hearing screams and shouts coming from inside the trailer. Police Sgt. Fred Balmos told WOAI Radio in San Antonio that officers opened the trailer and found from 30 to 70 people inside -- men, women and children. All bolted from the trailer and scattered except for two men left behind who suffered from dehydration....

For Education and Discussion Only. This article is not posted on the Herald/Review web site, but was transcribed by the poster.One deliveryman was turned over to the INS, the other three released. FORT HUACHUCA – Of the four Russians who were stopped at the post’s Main Gate Monday morning attempting to drive a tractor-trailer truck on to the fort, one has been taken into custody by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the other three released, according to the installation’s spokeswoman. Fort officials first thought they were Arabs, and then Armenians, before they determined the men were Russians, LTC...

A Senegalese man accused of carrying false documents and a training manual for transporting hazardous materials will remain jailed in Atlanta until a hearing next week. The man, who identified himself as Papa Mamour Keita, 38, said he had lived in and worked in Atlanta for nearly three years until July 2001 and again since Sept. 11. On Thursday, three companies in metro Atlanta confirmed him as a former employee, and a firm in Austell said he had done driving training there. The FBI arrested him in Atlanta on Tuesday and charged him with fraudulently obtaining a Social Security number....

The FBI is seeking help locating a rental van that was turned away from a Cambridge mall Friday night.Security guards at the Cambridge Side Galleria refused the van entry to its parking garage because it had tinted windows and was loaded with several large container drums and gasoline cans.It occurred at 7 P.M. The van, which had one passenger, then sped off in an unknown direction.The FBI issued an alert to Massachussets law enforcement to look out for the van. The public is asked to report any sightings of the van, which officials said had a license plate number 4789H7.Mall ...

<p>SAN DIEGO — A small pellet of radioactive material disappeared just south of California's border with Mexico, prompting the U.S. Customs Service to put its inspectors on alert.</p> <p>Mexican authorities confirmed Friday that an inch-long capsule of iridium-192 disappeared from a truck in Mexico earlier this week. It was unclear whether the equipment was stolen or fell off the truck.</p>

PUEBLA, Mexico -- If it were not for its extremely deadly cargo, the truck might have been just another of many stolen on Mexico's highways. The driver said he had been ambushed after pulling to the side of the road to assist another trucker. After tying up the would-be Samaritan, three thieves drove off with his brand-new semitrailer and its cargo of 9.6 tons of sodium cyanide, one whiff of which can kill a person in minutes. For the last two weeks, the mystery of what happened to the stolen load of mining-industry chemicals has stumped Mexican authorities. A massive...

18-Wheel Advisory Update On Missing Cyanide Truck By J.J. Johnson Published 05. 14. 02 at 18:25 Sierra Time U.S - MEXICAN BORDER - Let's get you caught up on the missing cyanide truck that seems to have slipped under the Homeland Security color-coded radar. The Sierra Time was among the first online publications to make this warning public. We need to make a slight clarification as to where the truck was stolen. The tractor-trailer, hauling a hundred drums of cyanide, was hijacked in the state of Hidalgo along Highway 85, north of Mexico City - not Texas. It's been missing...

<p>CNN.com reporting: Hijacked truck in Mexico carrying cyanide recovered with no cargo missing, Mexican Embassy says. Details to come.</p>

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police found a stolen truck on Thursday that had been carrying 10 tons of sodium cyanide, but most of the deadly chemicals were missing. Authorities cordoned off the area around where the truck was discovered, abandoned along a highway in Zacatlan, about 120 miles northwest of Mexico City in central Puebla state. Only about half a ton of the cyanide, contained in barrels, was still inside the truck and investigators were searching for the remainder, police said. One barrel had been opened, sparking concerns of a health hazard. But officials found no evidence of contamination,...

Missing Truck Driver Marion County Marion County's special unit investigating terrorism is looking into the disappearance of a truck driver. His name is William Ellis and he has been missing since September 14. While Ellis has no criminal background, his truck may be a hot commodity for would be terrorists. Investigators say Ellis has no criminal background that would lead them to suspect him of wrongdoing. However, the fact that both he and his truck are missing leads investigators to keep a close eye out for their whereabouts. Right now Marion County, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the ...