Tests show traces of C4 at Port of Miami..FOX BREAKING

Me | 1/7/07 | georgiadawg32

[Chena]

I saw that detonation. I don't understand something. If they suspect that there is C4, and C4 is an extremely dangerous explosive, why would they intentionally detonate it?

[piperpilot]

The way the news has been over the last couple of days, it makes me wonder if congress decided they needed to be away from the capitol for a reason other than football.

Hmmm . . . then I guess it's a good thing I get to go home in about a half hour. Fortunately for me, my house is just outside the fallout radius of DC.

[maquiladora]

The birds were most likely killed on purpose.

Experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society said the most likely cause was a deliberate poisoning of the troublesome grackles, which is more common than people think. It's also legal, with local permits, said Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation at the Audubon in Washington.

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/01/08/ap/us/d8mh9nvg1.txt

[Frank_Discussion]

Maybe, but it's an alarming thing for them to do. The passengers must have the runs, no norovirus required!

[Deaf Smith]

If the dead birds were Grackles, someone may have sprayed them last night with soapy water. The soap removes the oils from the feathers and the scheduled cold night would kill them.

[Chena]

C-4 residue was on the pallet? Where did the bulk of it go then? Is this incidental residue from some other container?

Good questions!

[KsSunflower]

Sorry...you beat me to it.

[CindyDawg]

I'm sure.

[Deo volente]

They're crazy if they let that ship leave as scheduled!

I wonder how many young Muslim men are on board.

[tioga]

Didn't look like much of an explosion - a false alarm again?

[CedarDave]

Better than using poison on the crackling grackles.

[RobRoy]

Using Dearborn in the same sentence with "Arabs" is like mentioning Berkely in the same sentence with "liberals"

[sageb1]

If I could reach through the TV, Shep's tie would be a lot tighter than it is now.

[Capt_Hank]

Well, I wasted all of yesterday afternoon on it, now it's like the movie, "Groundhog's Day".

[Chena]

If what I just heard is correct, the explosion was only to open up the packaging. Once that is done, the cameras on the robot can get a better look at what is inside that package.

[the OlLine Rebel]

How about this:

There are lots of "weird" things going on the last couple days.

The "New" Congress just convened.

Perhaps Osama et al are just acting on their knowledge that weakness now reigns?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

per FOX..this was much ado about nothing..

[ladyjane]

Speaking of the fallout radius of DC - did you see the story the other day about the various agencies in DC that are moving many of their employees out of the fallout radius? The FBI and others are relocating a lot of their employees to some place in Virginia about 75 miles from DC. It's causing a housing boom, well a mini-boom.

[terrytyson2007]

With friends in Austin I hope this is just a sort of bizarre phenomenon and not something else.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I wish they'd adjourn more.

The less that gets done, the better off we are!

[processing please hold]

We'll never be told what's going on in this country until something so horrendous happens, they can't cover it up.

[CedarDave]

Saw the remake of the Poseidon adventure on TV last night -- that was the MO, smuggling explosives on board in food supplies, in that case disguised as kegs of beer.

[Fitzcarraldo]

cnn pipeline - group of LE approaching the bomb squad work site near the ship.

[CindyDawg]

I was in downtown San Antonio a few weeks ago. Hundreds of birds were flying where ever I went. I thought they were pretty. They were loud though and I could see businesses and hotels having concerns.

[RegulatorCountry]

"The FBI and others are relocating a lot of their employees to some place in Virginia about 75 miles from DC."

Winchester, Front Royal and surrounding areas.

[Deguello]

And we know that a C4 will not mate to a Rat Motor.

[rahbert]

white putty used to heat water..

[Chena]

per FOX..this was much ado about nothing..

Fox said that? I switched to (GAG ME) MSNBC and they are still covering it. The detonation was only to open the package. From what I understand, they still do not know yet was is inside that package. The robot will determine it.

[GOPJ]

Hmmm . . . then I guess it's a good thing I get to go home in about a half hour. Fortunately for me, my house is just outside the fallout radius of DC.

Are you in one of those areas where housing values are going up? Waaaaay up?

[CedarDave]

Where is CNN getting the feed? Thought all aircraft were banned from that airspace?

[terrytyson2007]

Your guess is as good as mine. Especially with the cruise ship still docked right next to the (supposed) explosive site.

But you're totally right. This package was heavy if I recall correctly (correct me if I'm wrong, folks, as I'm at work right now and can't flip through the earlier posts) so that means a good amount of C4.

You're right. From what I've seen and read it just doesn't make sense. Then again, I'm not a member of the bomb squad. (lol)

[tioga]

That is really scary.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Large group of unprotected LE near the work site.

[KsSunflower]

You have to wonder what message is conveyed when our congress takes a day off of work for a football game...which is not even being played until tonight.

However, maybe the dems are attempting to garner favor with Ohio and Florida...haven't those two states been in the news over the past few years for other reasons?? I guess my "conspiracy thinking" is on overdrive...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

All this, and a chemical leak at a plant in Sugarland TX....

[Mac94]

Word is that there were three types of dead birds; grackles, sparrows, and pigeons.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Should be easily tracable if real, no? Aren't the chemical taggarts very unique?

[Fawn]

What was the chemical leak in sugarland? Texas somewhere?

[CindyDawg]

The FBI and others are relocating a lot of their employees to some place in Virginia about 75 miles from DC."

This should teach me not to scroll from the bottom up. I though we had a new mystery developing!

[processing please hold]

All Americans should be prepared. We won't know we're in trouble till we're in trouble. By then it'll be too late to prepare.

[Chena]

I posted this comment after the one you read. "If what I just heard is correct, the explosion was only to open up the packaging. Once that is done, the cameras on the robot can get a better look at what is inside that package."

So now we're waiting to hear what was INSIDE that package now that they have opened it up through detonation. They may have used water to do that.

[Fawn]

Over 60 dead birds in 10 blocks is what I heard.

[RegulatorCountry]

I distinctly remember, in the days following 9/11, a story making the rounds that passengers on the doomed airliners were basically forced to make cell phone calls, because the terrorists didn't want to be denied their glory "this time." Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[Fawn]

Glen Beck would say it might be Phoenix....

[Howlin]

I don't think they know what it is -- just white smoke.

Yes, Sugarland, TX.

[Mac94]

Some kind of explosion in the Sugarland, TX area.

[Red Steel]

C-4 residue was on the pallet? Where did the bulk of it go then? Is this incidental residue from some other container?

Yikes.

Maybe not yikes.

That pallet that could have previously carried C4 for legit demolition work or that pallet was used for military munition logistics.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Ah, interesting! ;-D

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Just south of the Houston city limits...

[Ellesu]

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