Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx
ALBUQUERQUE -- On Saturday the FBI continued its search for a possible link between a bomb scare in Northeast Albuquerque and a similar bomb scare two weeks ago.
On Friday, a man approached two people outside the Bank of America at Juan Tabo and Montgomery, Albuquerque Police said. Police said the suspect handed the two people a fannypack, said it was a bomb and that they were to walk into the bank with it or be killed. Once the victims did as they were told, the suspect ran off and APD was called in. The devices were safely taken form the victims and disposed of.
Reports suggest the FBI is investigating a link between this bomb scare and another that happened on Aug. 18. That similar incident occurred at the U.S. New Mexico Federal Employees Credit Union on Osuna.
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MIT, Princeton, Cornell Get Bomb Threats, FBI Reports
Aug. 31 2007
U.S. officials are investigating bomb threats that a dozen American colleges received over the past week, though no actual explosives have been found, said Rich Kolko, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge received an ``unspecified bomb threat'' on Aug. 27, according to a statement on the MIT police department's Web site. Princeton University in New Jersey and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, received similar threats, according to campus spokesmen.
Colleges are sensitive to any possibility of violence on campuses following the shootings of students and teachers April 16 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. An investigation found that the school, known as Virginia Tech, underestimated the threat from the gunman, said Ken Torisky, a spokesman for the University of Akron. The Akron, Ohio, institution received two bomb threats in the past week. ``You don't really know why someone does this until you talk to them,'' Torisky said. ``We're just happy no explosives were found in either case.''
Police in Akron have arrested a local man for one of the bomb threats, targeting the school's campus radio station, said Torisky. The investigation into a bomb threat at the school's science and engineering building is still ongoing, he said.
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Four alleged members of Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Saturday in France, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said. The three men and one woman were allegedly planning a car bomb attack, and investigators found a car bomb ready for use, he said Saturday at a press conference in Madrid, the Spanish capital.
The suspects were armed and had "major explosives," Rubalcaba said. The arrests happened near Toulouse, France, Rubalcaba said.
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One killed, 20 injured in Assam bomb blast (India)
9/1/2007
The outlawed Ulfa militants on Saturday triggered off a powerful bomb blast at a crowded marketplace, killing at least one person and injuring 20 others in Assam. The explosion took place near Bamunimaidam, a busy commercial area in the state capital Guwahati.
Deputy inspector-general of police G.P. Singh said that bomb was planted in an auto van, which was parked by separatist rebels in the crowded market of Bamunimaidam, a colony of Northeast Frontier Railway employees. Most victims were pedestrians, shoppers and vendors.
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Blast on Srinagar airport road injures 15 (India)
Sep 1 2007
About 15 people, including five Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, were injured when militants triggered a powerful car blast at Hyderpora chowk on the Srinagar Airport road this afternoon, official sources said.
Police had earlier detected and defused a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the same road.
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Thanks for keeping track Oorang.
The threats seem to be getting more and more creative.
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“4 killed in bridge collapse in Pakistan”
Idaho Statesman ^ | Sept. 1, 2007 | ZARAR KHAN, AP
Posted on 09/01/2007 3:51:42 PM PDT by RDTF
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