The Montrose County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of explosives found on S17 Road on the West End yesterday. According to the MCSO substation in Nucla, a deputy responded to the report Monday afternoon and then dispatched the bomb squad from Grand Junction to take care of the explosives.
It was not immediately known what the explosives were, or whether they were live. A follow-up investigation was conducted Monday evening; further information is pending contact with the sheriff.
http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2008/03/04/breaking_news/doc47cd92f28019e555888225.txt
Government warns of terror threat to trains
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
In a bulletin released Friday to U.S. law enforcement officials, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning of “continued strong terrorist interest” in targeting mass transit systems in the U.S.
The 10-page threat assessment, labeled “Unclassified/For Official Use Only” and obtained by NBC News, cautions that the “U.S. mass transit and passenger rail systems are vulnerable to terrorist attacks because they are accessible to large numbers of the public and are notoriously difficult to secure.”
Previous rail attacks in Madrid, London and Mumbai “could inspire terrorists to conduct similar attacks in the United States,” the report adds. However, the authors of the intelligence analysis make clear that there are no known, immediate dangers. “At this time, there is no credible intelligence regarding specific plans by any extremist groups or individuals to perpetrate an act of terrorism against the U.S. mass transit system,” they write.
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