Homeland security papers offer glimpse of California threats
SACRAMENTO
Homeland security files opened for review Thursday showed California officials have grappled with bomb threats, suspicious passengers on airplanes, security breaches at oil refineries and dozens of other incidents in recent months.(snip)
There was a bomb threat to the Bay Bridge in March, and one to a Greyhound bus in Bakersfield in April. Agencies have recorded multiple reports of individuals taking photographs of a nuclear facility in San Clemente and of an oil refinery in the San Francisco Bay area town of Rodeo. Security guards also found a hole cut in a fence at an oil refinery in Martinez.
In perhaps the most intriguing entry, one of the daily security briefings in April cited a redacted FBI report titled "Hizballah busted in Mexican smuggling operation."
Homeland security officials and an FBI spokeswoman declined to comment on the reference to the Lebanon-based terrorist group and said they could not confirm if members of the group were apprehended on the Mexican border.(snip)
The state also logged at least four domestic flights since February in which crew members or federal air marshals reported suspicious passengers. The briefings also included references to an undefined air space violation, confiscated counterfeit visas and 7,000 pounds of stolen fertilizer, which can be used as a bomb-making material, in Contra Costa County.(snip)
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Well now, that's interesting.
Califonria sure is a busy place.
THANKS for the ping Velveeta.