Illegal Afghani Picked Up in Area of Limerick Power Plant

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[He Rides A White Horse]

Illegal Afghani Picked up near Limerick Nuclear Power Plant. Items include binoculars, videocamera, adhesive solvent........

......curious.

[He Rides A White Horse]

....and before anybody starts with the, "videocamera, it's all legal stuff, blah, blah, blah, I know.

Just thought some would want to know, is all.

[Jolly Green]

I give up. Where is the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant?

[He Rides A White Horse]

Oh, sorry Jolly. It's in SE Pennsylvania, about 30,40 minutes west of Philadelphia.

[doug from upland]

Pennsylvania. Here's info --- CLICK.

[Pearls Before Swine]

So what do you guys make of the solvent?

[oldironsides]

Oh......... Thats just great. I have been choking on Canadian smoke all day and now I come in to FR to relax and read about a damn terrorist in Pa. scoping out our nuke plants. Was he part of that bunch that jumped ship in Va. a while back?

[He Rides A White Horse]

I don't know....it was described as an adhesive solvent.

[razorback-bert]

adhesive solvent........

An adesive cannot be a solvent and a solvent cannot be an adhesive.

So which is it?

[TheOtherOne]

Federal agents take custody of Afghan man stopped near Reading  

READING, Pa. (AP) - An Afghan man in the country illegally was arrested in Reading and whisked away to Philadelphia by federal agents, police said.

Mohomad Omar Popal, of Kabul, Afghanistan, had been wanted by federal authorities since 1997, police said. He was stopped by an Exeter Township officer on Saturday while driving toward Philadelphia, about 50 miles away.

Popal was in federal custody Sunday and could not be reached for comment; it was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents declined to comment; an FBI spokeswoman said Sunday evening that she had no information on the matter.

Patrolman Kurt E. Unterkoefler said he arrested Popal after the U.S. Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force in Washington, D.C., informed him that the man has been wanted since 1997. He told police he has been living in Reading.

Two INS agents went to Exeter from their headquarters in Philadelphia upon learning that Popal was there, Unterkoefler said.

"We usually take INS detainees before a district justice and they sit in Berks County Prison until the INS picks them up," Unterkoefler said. "In my experience it was very unusual for them to say they were coming right out for this guy."

The agents searched Popal's truck, which appeared to be loaded with about a dozen cases of soda, Unterkoefler said. He said he found several car batteries, adhesive solvents and electrical wiring under the soda.

"When I saw a Middle Eastern man driving a heavily loaded pickup towards Limerick (nuclear power plant) I became a little suspicious," Unterkoefler said. "The bumper was almost touching the ground."

He said the truck posed a traffic hazard and that the vehicle's registration had expired. Popal presented an expired international driving permit that listed his home address as Kabul, Unterkoefler said.

[fortress]

Here is the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0 ,2933,57119,00.html

[He Rides A White Horse]

Was he part of that bunch that jumped ship in Va. a while back?

It really was only a blurb.

[L`enn]

Well M-E-K kinda sorta is. It is a solvent that melts palstic and when it dries the plastic is bonded. I know what you mean though.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Thanks fortress.

[HiJinx]

Maybe it was a solvent for removing adhesives?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Oh I get it. It was web fluid.

[He Rides A White Horse]

When I saw a Middle Eastern man driving a heavily loaded pickup towards Limerick (nuclear power plant) I became a little suspicious," Unterkoefler said.

Uh oh, the heinous crime of profiling. Wonder if he'll get fired /sarcasm

[abner]

If anyone sees a photo of this guy, I would appreciate a ping.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I understand that. A solvent used especially for dissolving adhesives, perhaps? It's not my language; they said it.