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Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs [2002 flashback]
CNN ^ | 2002

Posted on 02/15/2009 9:38:06 AM PST by Sammy67

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The FBI has issued an alert to 350 law enforcement agencies in the southwest and Salt Lake City for potential Valentine teddy bear bombs after a suspicious transaction at a Wal-Mart last month.

Law enforcement sources said authorities also were on the alert at airports in case the suspected bear-bombs might be carried onto airplanes on Valentine's Day.

The FBI said a clean-shaven male, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, purchased nine Valentine teddy bears, 20 inches tall, and 14 canisters of propane, 9 inches tall, small enough to fit inside the teddy bears. The man also bought 12 packets of BBs -- small, round projectiles usually fired from air guns.

He paid in cash on January 15 at the Wal-Mart in

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To: Sammy67; All

But .. the BB’s could be used in the bombs as a projectile to inflict damage.

In other terror attacks (a lot in Israel), the bombs are loaded with broken glass and other sharp projectiles to inflict as much damage as possible.

When is the public going to realize these terrorists want us to DIE ..??????


21 posted on 02/15/2009 10:22:36 AM PST by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: Sammy67
After all the news yesterday about Valentine's day and red/pink colored things being banned by Islam, it should raise suspicions when a "clean shaven" Middle Eastern man buys Valentine bears and propane cannisters. The "clean shaven" behavior is a common prelude to a suicide act.
22 posted on 02/15/2009 10:23:57 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Sammy67
Anyone remember the South Vietnamese souvenir dolls that were supposed to contain bombs back in 1969?
23 posted on 02/15/2009 10:26:38 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: popdonnelly

“A man who would do something like this is truly sick.”

Well, islam is truly, truly sick. So there you go.


24 posted on 02/15/2009 10:30:37 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Eye of Unk
>"The sooner we accept the real fact that Islamic genocide is NOT out of the question the sooner we can deal with them."

IT's actually the only solution. It is their goal. They will do it to us, if we allow them to retain their breathing privileges.

Ban the queeran!

25 posted on 02/15/2009 10:33:03 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Proud non productive worker under directive 10-289)
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To: Myrddin

This story is from Feb 2002...


26 posted on 02/15/2009 10:33:47 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: Sammy67
... possibly of Middle Eastern descent ...

Those blasted Amish are at it again.

27 posted on 02/15/2009 10:47:09 AM PST by LiberConservative
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To: George Varnum

Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs
February 14, 2002 Posted: 4:47 AM EST (0947 GMT)


28 posted on 02/15/2009 10:53:26 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Sammy67

Well, this would be kind of comic if it weren’t for all those recent reports about religious police arrests and honor killings in connection with Valentine’s Day, which is greatly hated by Muslims.


29 posted on 02/15/2009 10:58:19 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
This story is from Feb 2002...

Radical Islam has been killing people since 600 AD. Feb 2002 is relatively recent history.

30 posted on 02/15/2009 11:01:58 AM PST by Myrddin
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