Posted on 01/12/2006 8:47:15 PM PST by bd476
Ping.
Found this current piece of good news while searching for more info on the BOLO Person of Special Interest Alert.
It appears that they might be updating the "Be On the Lookout" Alert as a reissue more than providing new information.
Also, look at the small print warning at the top. I found this on a publicly accessible site. Perhaps it is the first official publicized alert.
bttt
And sent out on email lists.
ping
Seems legit ping .. and BTT
Is this related to the purchase of thousands of pay-as-you-go cell phones?
I don't know.
Green Mack Explosives Emulsion
Truck Reported Stolen
An explosives company representative reported that a green 1989 Mack truck with a white body was stolen from their facility on 11-10-2005.
The truck is geared very low so it cannot travel at a high rate of speed (30-35 max). It is believed that the truck was taken away on either a low-boy tractor trailer rig or towed away.
This truck was designed and made for the specific purpose of mixing explosives material on site, so it is not a licensed or registered vehicle. The truck serial #1M2B192C2KW002152 and the rear portion serial number is TREADBED 2042.
PLEASE NOTE: These pictures are of a similar type and model however; the actual cab color of the missing truck is green.
Link to photo
Highway ISAC Statement: This particular vehicle is designed for mixing and delivering explosives while on a job site. In general, trucks of this nature do not drive on the highway and are either towed or have a tractor-trailer low-boy rig deliver it to a job site.
Once on the site, the trucks are used to mix and prepare explosives. There is no known terrorism nexus associated with this truck.
However, because of its use in the preparation of explosives the Highway Community is asked to use its considerable Road Smarts and support in locating this vehicle.
The approximate value of this particular type of rig is $150, 000 - $230,000, dependent upon the use of either aboveground or below-ground operations. This particular vehicle was set-up for above ground open-pit mining operations.
It is equipped with two tanks; an emulsion tank of 7,400 capacity (wet) tank and a secondary 18,000 lbs capacity (dry) tank. This vehicle is a regular key-start vehicle
If you have any information regarding this incident please contact
Highway Watch 1-877-USA-SAFE or FBI agent Haley at 865-560-5958, or email at TSOD.HighwayISAC@dhs.gov if you have any further information or questions concerning this incident.
Gears, Guts and Glory
Pass it on BTT
Do you think this is related to this press release?
....In three separate incidents truck drivers reported an individual asking several questions about tank truck deliveries and operations. The individual in question is also reported to have video taped tank truck operations and deliveries as well as taken photographs of tanker equipment...
http://www.highwaywatch.com/press_room/release_011006.html
There's also a photo of the suspect on CNN. Please forgive me for posting a link to PNN (propaganda news network)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/12/trucker.lookout/index.html
That's always possible of course, but probably not.
There's also more on that particular story over on the thread:
Alert: Man photographed trucks...
Ping...
LOL
bolo bump
From August 8, 2004 Washington Post:
THE WORLD AFTER 9/11 : The Truck Bomb Threat
Impervious Shield Elusive Against Drive-By Terrorists
By Spencer S. Hsu and Sari Horwitz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 8, 2004; Page A01
Government bomb technicians have packed Chevrolet sedans, Dodge vans and Ryder trucks with 10 tons of explosives and have blown them up in the desolate New Mexico desert hoping to analyze the flight of debris over the sand.
Federal agents in Front Royal, Va., have trained more than 400 Labrador retrievers to sniff out the chemical compounds used in 19,000 separate explosives formulas.
A D.C. police officer finishes inspecting a truck near the IMF building in Northwest Washington. Last week's orange alert bulletin noted that "there is no standard type of vehicle associated with" a car bomb and urged special attention to limousines as well, which often get close access to buildings. (Sarah L. Voisin -- The Washington Post)
Law enforcement officers have left thousands of calling cards across the country -- from a farmer's co-op store in McPherson, Kan., to a chemical company in West Haven, Conn. -- asking sales managers to report unusual interest in fertilizer or other components of homemade bombs.
The United States has spent more than $1 billion on these and other efforts to stop a single threat: the explosion of a car or truck bomb at a government installation or other structure. But 11 years after Muslim extremists used an explosives-laden van to attack the World Trade Center and nearly three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, even senior federal agents acknowledge that the country has virtually no defense against a terrorist barreling down the street with a truck bomb.
"If a person doesn't care about dying, they can pull right up to a building, push a button and the building would go," said Michael E. Bouchard, assistant director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "That's why we have checkpoints and try to keep large vehicles away from buildings..."
The rest of the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48677-2004Aug7?language=printer
Suspect looks Arabic or Pakistani.
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