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(IsraelNN.com) Thousands of people were told to evacuate the international Paris book fair after a bomb threat was received. This year's book fair gave special honor to Israel, because of the 60th anniversary of its independence. Israeli writers Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld and others participated at the fair, and President Shimon Peres also paid a visit. Arab countries including Lebanon, Yemen,, Tunisia and Morocco boycotted the fair because of the special honor given Israel.

DAVIS, Calif. -- A University of California, Davis freshman was in custody early Thursday after the discovery of bomb-making materials forced hundreds of students to evacuate their campus dormitories. Fire officials said several potentially dangerous chemicals were found in a dorm room, but the items had not yet been assembled into an explosive device, Sacramento TV station KCRA reported. "At this point, the bomb squad has set up a plan to remove the materials in a safe manner," said Paul Pfotenhauer, a fire spokesman for UC Davis, shortly after 8 a.m. PST. "Since the threat level has been lowered because...

A Jewish passenger on a South Shore commuter train prompted a bomb scare on Wednesday when the traditional prayer box worn on his forehead was mistaken for an explosive device. Bob Byrd, chief of the Northwest Indiana Commuter Transportation District’s Transit Police, told the Chesterton Tribune today that the incident began as Train 108 left the East Chicago station en route for Chicago. Several passengers sitting near the man became suspicious after observing what looked to them like a miner’s hat with a box in place of a lamp and wires sticking out of it. Those passengers alerted a collector,...

An emergency in the downtown core ended with a lot of fear, but not much danger Friday. The intersection of Front St. West between John and Blue Jays Way was closed off for several hours, after reports of a suspicious package being found in the area. The Royal Bank Building at 325 Front St. West was evacuated as a precaution, sending some 2,000 workers home early. The Emergency Task Force and the Bomb Squad went in to take a look at the object that was causing so much curiosity on the second floor. And in the end, it turned out...

Police in Orlando detonated a suspicious device at the Orange County Regional History Center, which was the second in Downtown Orlando Thursday afternoon. The package was found in the courtyard outside the history center. Police believed there was a PVC pipe inside. The area around the history center was shut down during the investigation. [snip] "It took a lot of taxpayer dollars to make sure that this was rendered safe by the bomb squad,� said Lt. Dave Haley. [snip] Police said another package found earlier on Church Street will be investigated. They think it may be related to an incident...

anyone hear about a bomb scare downtown lansing? my father just sent these pics from grand tower but i can't find anything in news sources.

"I have no idea what a real bomb looks like," writes a blogger at machinist.salon.com, "but I don't think it’s a plastic board with a 9-volt battery on it." 19 year old M.I.T. student, Star Simpson showed up at Logan International Airport Friday to pick up a friend. Such an event would not normally kick up an international news storm, but Simpson had not taken the general stupidity index into account; something we're apparently required to do now.She was wearing a black sweat shirt with a white plastic board attached. The board itself, known as a socket or bread-board, is...

(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning. State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing. Stay with wbztv.com and WBZ-TV for the latest on this developing story.

ANKARA - The Turkish capital has had another bomb scare, only days after a massive car bomb was found in the centre of the city. Haberin devamı Late Thursday, security authorities announced they had intercepted a van carrying up to 500 kilograms of explosives on the road to Ankara. The van, which was registered in Germany, had crossed into Turkey via the Kapikule border gate with Bulgaria. Bulgarian customs officials had tipped off Turkish security that the van appeared to be suspicious, and it was later stopped before it reached its destination. Reports say that four persons, including two Turkish...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

A reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. said on the air that police will be "detonating" a suspicious package found on a Red Line car of the Metro subway system at the Dupont Circle station.Dupont Circle, Woodley Park and Cleveland Park stations on the Red Line have been closed. Shuttle buses are being used to ferry passengers.The suspicious package was found on the last car of a train bound for the Glenmont station in Montgomery County, Md.The Dupont Circle station has been evacuated.Record breaking temperatures of 102 degrees in D.C. promise to make this a rush hour to remember, even...

About 8:45 this morning someone came through the molding dept where I work telling everyone we had to get out. We gathered in the parking lot and a few minutes later were told we had to go across the street to the movie theatre parking lot. Since we were told we could walk or drive over I drove which turned out to be a good thing. About 10:30 we were told we could go home but people without their cars could not go get them. I took a couple of people home, way out of my way but they needed...

Got a phone call from friend at LAX airport. Reports of a bomb scare or a suspicious package. If you are going to the airport today, expect delays.

Another abandoned backpack I'm guessing. Feel free to pull this - as I'm sure we're now averaging several of these a day.

<p>A Northwest Airlines flight bound for Memphis was forced to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday because of a bomb threat, though authorities did not believe the bomb was on board the plane, an airport spokeswoman said.</p> <p>Airport police were questioning a man who told a gate agent there was a bomb on Northwest Flight 980 shortly after the plane left Seattle around 12:33 p.m., airport spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt said.</p>

A suspicious U-Haul truck has been discovered parked outside a Dallas courthouse where the long-awaited Holy Land Trial (terrorism funding) is set to begin at 9 am.

Rv with bomb stopped two blocks from packed softball tourney.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A section of New York City's Times Square was closed down on Tuesday as police investigated what they described as a possible bomb scare. Several blocks of Seventh Avenue, including along the front of the Reuters building, were closed to traffic as police investigated the suspicious item

(AP) SACRAMENTO A CD player is being blamed for a bomb scare that led to the evacuation of a terminal at Sacramento International Airport. Authorities say a security screener yesterday afternoon saw an object with protruding wires on his monitor that he thought was a bomb. But the bag was snatched up and lost in the crowd in the terminal before authorities could inspect its contents. Officials sounded an alert that led 400 passengers to be evacuated for nearly two hours -- delaying six flights. Screeners spotted the bag again while passengers were being re-screened and discovered the object was...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Fox News is reporting that parts of the White House have been evacuated.</p> <p>Secret Service reportedly received some kind of alarm signals from dogs who picked up a scent from a car across the street.</p>

BOSTON (AP) -- One of the men criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the electronic devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless. Surveillance cameras caught 27-year-old Peter Berdovsky videotaping officers removing what they thought was a possible bomb.

A suspicious item found in a rental car at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was a scientific instrument used to record water temperature, airport officials said Monday. The foot-long item -- plastic pipe with holes, with wire going from one pipe to the next and flashing green lights -- was a Stowaway Tidbit Temp Logger, the Metropolitan Airports Commission said. The owner of the device is a staff member of the Geosciences Department at Oregon State University and had recently recovered it from the river bottom near St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, where it had been placed about six months ago...

No, that's not a penis pump, Mom. Really Wed Aug 23, 4:12 PM ET CHICAGO - Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn't want her to know he'd packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey. So he told security it was a bomb, officials said. Madin Azad Amin was stopped by officials on Aug. 16 after guards found an object in his baggage that resembled a grenade, prosecutors said. When officers asked him to identify it, Amin said it was a bomb, said Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto. He later...

Cops halted a Manhattan subway and examined passengers carrying bottled water and other drinks yesterday after a concerned tipster reported seeing a bottle of suspicious liquid on the No.6 train, police and witnesses said. The startling spot check was not part of a wider NYPD counterterrorism initiative and had no connection to the thwarted British terror plot to use liquid explosives to blow up passenger jets, authorities said. It was a routine response to a suspicious package - but several passengers were still alarmed. "This is a new level of fear, watching for people carrying drinks on the subway," said...

Bomb Scare At Tucson Grocery Store Jenny Rose KGUN9 News An explosive situation tied up the intersection of Prince and Campbell for hours after someone found a bomb at a grocery story. Jenny Rose has the latest. http://www.kgun9.com/NewsArticle/tabid/111...38/Default.aspx

Tucson Police evacuated the Safeway store on Prince road and Campbell avenue for much of Saturday afternoon and into evening after an employee spotted a suspicious package. According to police, an employee called police at about 2:14 p.m. Saturday afternoon after spotting a package below the customer service counter. Sgt. Decio Hopffer said that when the bomb squad arrived and evacuated the store, "The bomb technician saw things in it that led them to believe that this was a live device and they had to take the necessary precautions to make sure no one was going to get hurt." Hopffer...

ROME (Reuters) - A British passenger plane described as belonging to low-cost airline Excel has been diverted to the southern Italian airport of Brindisi because of a bomb scare, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Friday. Ansa said the plane, a Boeing 767, was on route from Gatwick airport near London to Egypt when the pilot asked to land at Brindisi. But local police in Brindisi told Reuters they could not confirm it was because of a suspected bomb on board.

Live bombs in court create chaos A court in Bangladesh trying suspected Islamic militants was thrown into panic when five live bombs were produced as exhibits during the hearing of a case. The discovery prompted the presiding judge to order a hasty adjournment as the court was evacuated. A security force officer said that he got the "shock of his life" when he realised that the bombs were live. Officials blame police for not defusing the devices before coming to court. The police say they were not asked to. *Heart failure* The incident happened during the trial of five suspected...

Mounties call Tamil group 'arm of Tigers' Court document first glimpse into four-year probe Stewart Bell National Post Thursday, July 20, 2006 TORONTO - The Tamil Tigers terrorist organization is "entrenched" in Canada and uses a Toronto-based "front organization" called the World Tamil Movement to raise money for arms, says a summary of an ongoing RCMP probe released yesterday. The 58-page document released by the Ontario court provides the first glimpse of a four-year RCMP investigation, called Project OSALUKI, into the Canadian fundraising efforts of the Sri Lankan terror group the Tamil Tigers. According to the heavily edited outline...

Dublin Airport security alert lifted after bomb scare 07/07/2006 - 10:09:05 Operations at Dublin Airport were returning to normal today after the second major security alert in four days. A spokeswoman for Dublin Airport Authority confirmed shortly after 10am that the scare had ended. Airlines agreed a plan to resume check-in and flights. “All security staff are entering the building first, followed by operating airport and airline staff next,” said the spokeswoman. “Passengers who already have boarding cards will be asked to re-enter next, then those passengers who have tickets to travel today will re-enter,” she said. Only passengers with...

Terror attack survivors and MPs were left fuming after an 'artist' who planted several fake nail bombs around west London - triggering a huge security alert - was let off scot free. Library assistant Monica Saieva, 36, left five devices resembling nail bombs in busy streets in Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush on April 26 this year, sparking a full-scale terror alert which caused traffic chaos during a weekday rush hour.... Scotland Yard confirmed today that Ms Saieva will not be prosecuted over the incident after being let off with a caution. However Greg Hands, Tory MP for Hammersmith and Fulham,...

Vienna - Before Bush's visit in Vienna today, three suspicious packages had been discovered early in the morning. Two were destroyed with controlled explosions and discovered not to be dangerous. A third was opened and also found to be harmless. One of the packages was found near the Hotel Intercontinental, a place that President Bush will be either visiting or passing by on his visit to Vienna. At least one of them had wires hanging out and some sort of antenna affixed.

Movie Promotion Confused With Bomb in L.A. Saturday April 29, 2006 10:46 PM SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming ``Mission: Impossible III'' got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb. The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the ``Mission: Impossible'' theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers....

LONDON: A “performance artist” sparked a major security alert in London on Wednesday when she left five packages, one with nails sticking out of it, across a busy area of the city during the morning rush-hour, police said. The woman, who has not been named, told officers she had strategically planted the “devices” around the Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith Grove areas of west London, a major traffic and transport hub crammed with commuters on their way to work. Police, fearing a possible repeat of last July’s suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 people on the capital’s transport system, rushed bomb...

WEST SACRAMENTO — A bomb squad was called in Saturday, after a man dropped a knapsack in a crowd of protesters outside a building President Bush was touring. Authorities later said it appeared to be a "sophisticated hoax device." West Sacramento Deputy Police Chief Henry Serrano said the man dropped the knapsack in the middle of a street outside the California Fuel Cell Partnership, where Bush was giving an Earth Day talk on hydrogen fuel technology. The suspect then ran into the crowd of about 1,500 protesters. Police who caught him said he appeared intoxicated and refused to identify himself....

Aer Arann flight diverted after hoax bomb alert 15/04/2006 - 08:55:25 An Aer Arann flight from Luton to Galway has been diverted to Prestwick airport in Scotland following a hoax bomb alert last night. Staff on board the plane raised the alarm shortly after take-off, after they found a note claiming there was a bomb on board. The plane, which was carrying 50 people, landed safely at Prestwick airport, near Glasgow at 11pm. It was escorted to the airport by two RAF tornado jets. It was the second Irish flight to be forced to land at Prestwick because of bomb...

Flight grounded after security scare Thursday, 13 Apr 2006 04:31 Prestwick airport was closed yesterday after Ryanir flight FR25 was diverted due to a security alert, police said. The alert prompted the airport near Glasgow to close for about two hours, opening again at about 16:25 BST, police said. The Ryanair Boeing 737 travelling between Paris Beauvais and Dublin was escorted to the ground by RAF Tornadoes, on the orders of the ministry for transport, the BBC said. "A note was passed to the cabin crew onboard claiming that there was a bomb," Ryanair said in a statement. All 167...

San Diego NCAA arena evacuated on bomb scare 14 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. ADVERTISEMENT Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet...

Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet arrived. "A bomb-sniffing dog noticed something in a hot dog cart," Beresford said. "They got a...

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I'm getting reports from friends and family of a bomb scare in the Macy's on 34th street. People running in the streets and heavy police activity. No reports yet on the MSM. Let's hope it's not real this time.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police blew up a suspicious package in a car parked near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than two hours after the two occupants told authorities they had an explosive in the vehicle. Police said they were interviewing two men they took from the car to determine if the package was a bomb. (...)At 1:11 p.m., the Capitol Police bomb squad "disrupted" the package -- the police term for destroying it. The door of the car, a 2005 gray Chevrolet Impala, blew open at the time of the controlled explosion. (...)No evacuations were ordered for the Capitol,...

Suspicious Package On ECU Campus Oct 14, 2005 Jennifer Coates WNCT-TV9 Police were called to campus around 11:30 this afternoon, near the art building. ECU Police tell Nine on Your Side a construction worker left a bookbag full of copper pipes near a construction site. The Cherry Point Bomb Squad was called in. They detonated the six pipes. Four buildings were evacuated during the scare.

TWO anti-terrorist robots broke into a suspicious van that went unnoticed for more than 24 hours near the Prime Minister's Canberra residence, sparking a major security lockdown yesterday. The battered van had been parked near The Lodge since at least noon on Friday, but was reported to police only yesterday. Prime Minister John Howard, who spent the day in Sydney, was informed of the incident last night. The area around the van, a white Mitsubishi Starwagon with Victorian registration plates, was cordoned off and traffic diversions put in place. Two robots, one on either side of the van, broke into...

Thu Aug 18,10:09 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - An "electronic nappy" used to monitor wetness sparked a bomb alert in a German post office when it arrived in a parcel ticking suspiciously, police in the southwestern city of Heilbronn said on Thursday. "They suspected it was a bomb so they put the package into an empty room and called the police," said a police spokesman. "It was supposed to respond to wetness with bleeping sounds but this one ticked." Two squad cars rushed to the scene and immediately contacted the sender. Police gave the all clear after they contacted the...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested a San Antonio, Texas, man on Tuesday for leaving a written bomb threat on board a Southwest Airlines flight last week, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg. Southwest Airlines Flight 21 landed at a Houston airport on Friday after the note was found. The 136 passengers and five crew were held for questioning while the Boeing 737 was searched for weapons or explosives. None were found. The note is believed to have been a hoax by Elias Jeremiah Cervantez, 20, of San Antonio, as the plane flew from Odessa, Texas, to...

US police arrested a man following a bomb scare that emptied a Pennsylvania Station and disrupted train and subway services for around an hour. Officers also stopped a tour bus and searched its passengers. The busy station was evacuated after the man allegedly threw a backpack at a member of staff for the national passenger railway Amtrak and said it was a bomb, said Marissa Baldeo, a spokeswoman for New York City Transit. The threat was a false alarm, and service on all lines was soon restored. Police arrested the man, Raul Claudio, 43, on Sunday, according to Manhattan District...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - A man who made threats and was seen leaving suspicious packages on an Amtrak train was being questioned Wednesday by the FBI as a bomb squad examined the items, police said. The man, described as Middle Eastern and in his mid-30s, was approached by an Amtrak ticket taker and apparently became agitated after being told he had missed his stop, Lt. Mark Gagan said. The man said "the train was going to fall into the sea and the train was going to disappear," according to Gagan. Business and homes in the area were evacuated after an...

Bomb scare halts Amtrak, closes Richmond BART RICHMOND - Police said a suspicious package on an Amtrak train has turned out to be computer parts. Authorities had shut down the Richmond BART/Amtrak station and all Northern California north-south Amtrak rail traffic because of a chanting man aboard a train and some suspicious packages in the car. One of three packages appeared to have electronic equipment consistent with bomb-making materials, but a robot was sent to investigate further and found the package contained computer parts. There was no immediate word on how soon Amtrak would re-open. Meanwhile, the man whose chanting...

Suspicious Package Causes Scare At Port Authority POSTED: 9:25 am EDT May 26, 2005 UPDATED: 10:40 am EDT May 26, 2005 NEW YORK -- Parts of the sprawling Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown were closed off for more than one hour during the morning rush Thursday following the discovery of an unattended bag. Those sections were reopened at 9:20 a.m. after it was determined that the bag posed no danger, said Tiffany Townsend, a Port Authority spokeswoman. The south wing lower level and a portion of the south wing main concourse were evacuated around 8:10 a.m. after the bag...