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A 23-year-old Michigan man faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally possessing bombs, which he allegedly intended to use to destroy the Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention. Matthew Bradley DePalma, of Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession of firearms. According to his criminal complaint, DePalma had several Molotov cocktails in his possession a week before the start of the RNC. DePalma had been under investigation by federal investigators after he attended a protester conference in Wisconsin in July. Officials said DePalma went to the Hennepin County Library on Aug. 18...

A packed holiday jet flew across the Atlantic despite a passenger finding a note claiming there was a bomb on board. The terrified holidaymaker found the hand-written note in a toilet only 20 minutes into the flight from the Dominican Republic to Newcastle International Airport. He immediately alerted a stewardess and, when two more notes were discovered, the pilot left the cockpit to see for himself. He decided the notes were a hoax and decided to continue with the scheduled flight rather than divert to the nearest airport.

Employees and shoppers are being allowed back into the Rib Mountain Wal-mart after a bomb scare. The Marathon County Sheriff's Department tells NewsChannel 7 that the incident happened shortly before 4 p.m. After everyone was evacuated, the Marathon/Oneida County Bomb Squad swept the building. Employees were then allowed back in, followed by the shoppers. Stay tuned to www.wsaw.com and NewsChannel 7 for further details.

Allegedly he was causing a disturbance on the train and the conductor attempted to move him to another part of the train, that’s when he said he had a bomb and the bomb was in his bag” says Emporia Police Chief Bernard Richardson. Around 2am the bomb squad determined the threat was a hoax. The Yemeni man was taken into custody by the FBI and is facing a felony charge of making a threat on a public conveyance. The hundreds of passengers were finally able to continue on their way.

Go to Michelle Malkin's site, click on the link, and flag this POS blogg as having objectionable content. The more flags, the better the chance of it getting removed.Also, when you hold your cursor on the flag button, you'll see a linkable "objectionable content". Click on it, and follow the maze of links to report this dirt bag. Even call the FBI if you're so inclined This is a terrorist threat against a peacefully gathering group of veterans. It cannot be tolerated.

Petersburg Police and officers from two other counties converged on Petersburg High School to help control several fights that broken out there, officials say. School officials say the incidents stem from a bomb threat that was called in to Petersburg High in the afternoon. Police were brought in to sweep the school for explosives, but reported nothing suspicious. After students were allowed back in the school, officials say several fights broke out among the student body. Police from Petersburg, Chesterfield and Prince George were on the scene trying to gain control of the situation. Petersburg Public Schools spokesman Cliff Davis...

Hundreds of oil workers are being evacuated by helicopter from a North Sea rig after a bomb threat. A woman sparked the security alert after coastguards were called this morning, Sky sources have said. A bomb disposal unit was on its way to the facility, which is more than 100 miles north-east of Aberdeen. Jake Molloy, an offshore workers union representative, was amazed any bomb could be smuggled onto a rig because of "very, very rigid" restrictions on the mainland. He told Sky News: "I find it incredible to think anyone could get a device offshore." Mr Molloy added...

MELBOURNE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Rudy Giuliani, who regularly touts his leadership of New York City during the September 11 attacks, saw his plan to jump-start his presidential campaign tripped up by a bomb threat in Florida on Wednesday. The threat threw off his schedule and reduced the turnout for the former New York mayor's speech in Melbourne from what his campaign manager Bill McCollum said was initially expected to be "several hundred" people to about 50. The anonymous threat was called into the headquarters of communications equipment maker Harris Corp at about the same time Giuliani's plane landed at...

A US air base in western Germany was the target of a bomb threat last night, sparking a large operation by police and American forces to secure the site, police revealed today. Police in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate said the base had received a call from a man who spoke in German with a Russian or Turkish accent and threatened to attack the air base in Spangdahlem with bombs. He had at least four accomplices. "After the telephone threat, the American forces informed the police, who moved swiftly with US security forces to protect the air base," the police...

The FBI used a novel type of remotely installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash. Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV to a MySpace account suspected of being used by the bomb threat hoaxster. Once implanted, the software was designed to report back to the FBI with the Internet Protocol address of the suspect's computer, other information found on the PC and, notably, an ongoing log of the user's outbound connections. Screen snapshot of 'timberlinebombinfo' MySpace account The suspect, former Timberline...

A bomb threat prompted authorities to shut down the Fort Pitt, Liberty and Squirrel Hill tunnels for nearly an hour this evening during rush hour. A threat was called in to Allegheny County's 911 sometime around 5:30 p.m. and the tunnels were closed at 5:40 p.m. The Squirrel Hill tunnel reopened to inbound traffic at 6:20 p.m. and the outbound side reopened a few minutes later.

A package found Wednesday in the parking lot of a South Austin women's clinic contained an explosive device, four sources familiar with the investigation said today. Local and federal authorities are planning a news conference at 2 p.m. to discuss the investigation, which will be headed by federal officials. The sources asked not to be identified because of the ongoing investigation. Officials have not commented on any possible suspects or motives. The package was found about 2 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center at 1902 S. Interstate 35, north of Oltorf Street. The clinic...

RATHDRUM, IDAHO -- Superintendent Charles Kinsey has announced that the Lakeland School District in Rathdrum, Idaho is closed Wednesday due to a bomb threat. When staff arrived at Athol Elementary to begin their work day, they found a note on the door with the threat; notes were also found at other schools in the district. The notes made threats to two schools, but did not specifically name the schools. According to Captain Ben Wolfinger, the Kootenai County Explosive Recognition Team will be inspecting several schools in the district through the course of the day. They will be looking for anything...

As reported by CNN, "Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards "bomb-like" devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged transportation infrastructure in the city." In case you missed that, the Assistant Attorney General said that "IF they had been explosive, THEY COULD HAVE damaged transportation infrastructure in the city." Right. Just like IF they were just lightboards depicting a cartoon character, THEY COULD be completely harmless; or IF I was a millionare, I COULD sit around watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force smoking cigars all day (well, I guess I could do that...

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CULPEPER, Va. — A bomb threat shut down an entire Virginia school district Thursday, canceling classes for more than 7,200 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in area religious schools and child care centers. Culpeper County Schools spokeswoman Marla McKenna said she couldn't discuss the content of the threat, which came on the heels of three deadly U.S. school attacks in the span of a week. "You simply can't be too cautious," said Superintendent David A. Cox. "The safety of our students and our employees is our number one concern." Police teams planned to sweep all...

This is a compilation reference thread with links to all stories and topics posted on FRee Republic since Wednesday night, 8/9/2006, through today, Saturday, 8/12/2006 concerning the failed bomb plot discovered and quashed by authorities in London, directed towards airline flights from the UK to the US.

BREAKING NEWS: Flight diverted to Tri-Cities airport following bomb threat U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Houston has been diverted to the Tri-Cities Regional Airport after authorities said a bomb threat involving the flight was made. About 50 to 60 people aboard the flight currently are being evacuated, according to airport officials. Flight #3441 was being operated by Republic Airways.

LAPD has shut down the Los Angeles Central Library (the Riordan Library) and closed off 5th Street between Flower and Grand. Lots of LAPD and LA Fire on site. Several LAPD Bomb Squad cars and personnel there to.

My husband heard on the news, while commuting, that there was a bomb scare at LAX. Tonight, Tuesday night, 6pm local. I cannot find it on local news, he never heard it again on radio news, etc. Has anyone heard anything about this?

A Saudi man who authorities say was upset about being denied a job as an Arabic interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with threatening to blow up a Delta Air Lines flight. Saleh Al Suwailem, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday. Al Suwailem was at Fort Benning on Monday being interviewed for the job when he learned he would not be hired because he was denied security clearance, federal authorities said in court papers. After being told to fly home to Idaho the next day on a Delta flight, he started drinking...

A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said. The sticker on the bike chained outside the university-owned Oasis restaurant near the center of campus attracted the attention of a police officer about 5:30 a.m., spokesman Jack Jeffery said. Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away. The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray...

By KATE SHEEHY February 8, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE A dimwitted teen phoned in a terrifying bomb threat to LaGuardia Airport - forcing panicked passengers to evacuate a plane - so she could buy herself time to get on the flight to avoid an explosive love triangle. Airheaded Anna Tarasov, 19, admitted to The Post yesterday that she came up with the scheme because the subway made her late for her impending flight from New York to Georgia to confront a jealous boyfriend. "I remember thinking it wouldn't be such a big deal. It totally slipped my mind about the terrorists,"...

A horse carriage driver who worked near the Liberty Bell was charged today with phoning 28 bomb threats against Independence Hall. Michael Mancuso of Philadelphia was charged in federal court with calling the Philadelphia Police Department's 911 emergency line several times a month between Aug. 5 and Wednesday. In virtually every call, authorities said that Mancuso told the 911 operator, "There is a bomb at Independence Hall." In an affidavit, U.S. Park Ranger John W. Hopf said that police had traced the calls to pay phones near the park, including a phone near the corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets....

Newton officials are calling their refusal to allow FBI agents access to library computers without a warrant during a terrorist threat last week “their finest hour.” Law enforcement officials say it’s a “nightmare.” Police rushed to the Newton Free Library after tracing a terrorist threat e-mailed to Brandeis University to a computer at the library. But requests to examine computers Jan. 18 were rebuffed by Newton library Director Kathy Glick-Weil and Mayor David Cohen on the grounds that they did not have a warrant. Cohen, defending the library’s actions, called the legal standoff one of Newton’s “finest hours.” “We showed...

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Federal air marshals kill a passenger on an Orlando-bound American Airlines jetliner after the man claims he has a bomb in his backpack, authorities say. Rigoberto Alpizar bolted down the aisle of American Airlines Flight 924 shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday. In pursuit behind him, through the narrow passageway of the Boeing 757: his female companion -- police believe it was his wife -- yelling ''stop, stop'' in English and then in Spanish, ``He's sick, he's sick.'' The chaos ended quickly. Federal agents shot the Florida man after he claimed he had a bomb in his backpack. The incident drew...

MANILA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy shut its doors to the public on Tuesday after a bomb threat, with Philippine police warning of potential suicide attacks by Jemaah Islamiah, a regional network of militants linked to al Qaeda. On its Web site -- http://manila.usembassy.gov -- the embassy said the temporary closure was due to "plausible threat information", which it did not describe. A police bomb squad with sniffer dogs searched the exterior of the heavily fortified compound, after not being allowed inside, but officers said nothing unusual had been found. Inspector Oscar Enciso, head of the Manila bomb...

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Bomb Threat Clears Connecticut Courthouses POSTED: 12:21 pm CST December 2, 2005 UPDATED: 12:29 pm CST December 2, 2005 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Court buildings around Connecticut have been evacuated because of a bomb threat. The threat was phoned in to the governor's office Friday morning, and it prompted police to evacuate state court buildings. Officials aren't saying just how many of the dozens of court buildings around the state were cleared. The evacuations are interrupting trials and sending judges, lawyers and others into the streets. U.S. Marshal John Bardelli said bomb squads were sweeping federal courts in Bridgeport, New Haven...

Bomb threat shuts down Love Field 11:12 PM CST on Friday, November 18, 2005 By MARY ANN RAZZUK / WFAA-TV WFAA-TV Passengers fled the terminal after the threat was issued. Also Online Mary Ann Razzuk reportsCongress clears Missouri flights from Love Passengers scrambled after a bomb threat paralyzed Dallas Love Field for three hours on a busy Friday night. Witnesses said chaos ensued after a man at a departure gate began screaming, "Bomb in the bag! Bomb in the bag!" The man took off all his clothes and started running, as hundreds of horrified travelers followed suit. The terminal was...

Can't believe this is not on FR after 30 mins....man seen running away from car filled with propane tanks. He had a backpack in his hands as he ran away. Parked in front of City Hall in Arvada,Colorado..aka Littleton.

Following a fierce investigation, two suspects have been arrested in connection to a bomb scare in Marshall County. After the Kingston police found two homemade bombs within blocks of each other yesterday, authorities say a total of 28 bombs were recovered. Friday morning near the corner of Second and Chickasaw, Kingston police and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad diffused two homemade bombs found in mailboxes. A U.S. Postal worker noticed a yellow liquid oozing from one of the boxes and then notified authorities. Today, police tell KTEN they found several more explosive devices at a house on the 500...

Two white men were being questioned Friday after an unidentified man claimed to have a suspicious device in his car close to the U.S. Capitol. Police cordoned off several streets near where the gray 2005 Chevy Impala was parked on the corner of First Street and Constitution Ave., N.W. That's very close to the Senate offices. Brian Doyle, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said hazardous materials teams had been dispatched to the site. "We don't know if it's an explosive device," he said. There were no immediate details available on how the suspicious vehicle came to the...

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By EDWARD HEGSTROM Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle "The FBI is investigating allegations that a Prairie View A&M student arrested last week on charges of trying to pass off counterfeit bills may have also had bomb-making materials in his dorm room." ..."Okwudili Franklin Aluka, 30, faces forgery charges and is being held in the Waller County Jail as officials also try to determine whether he is in the country legally." ..."Court papers filed last week by Prairie View campus police allege officers found chemicals in Aluka's apartment "that can be used in the making of explosives" and they called in the...

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument has been evacuated after a bomb threat was reported. The threat was made by phone to D.C. Police. Park Police are evacuating the grounds around the monument, but traffic routes in the area are open. Security officers will search the grassy areas around the structure for anything suspicious. The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat. Nothing suspicious was found.

The original informant who prompted the terror alert on New York City's subways last week is sticking to his story, and there is no basis to conclude the threat was a hoax, sources involved in the investigation of the plot told ABC News. When last spoken to by interrogators, the original informant has remained firm in his statement that there was in fact a plot. Citing government sources, several media outlets reported today that information that led to heightened security for the New York City transit system was a hoax. Those reports said three men arrested in Iraq with suspected...

Paris - Authorities evacuated the Eiffel Tower on Sunday following an anonymous bomb threat, police said. After a Paris police station received a threatening telephone call on Sunday, authorities asked visitors and workers to leave the monument, police said. A squad of explosives experts headed to the scene - standard procedure after such threats. Police turned up nothing suspicious during a search, and people were authorised to return to the monument after about an hour. The 324m tower is one of France's top tourist attractions, with more than 6 million visitors in 2004.

Evacuated the federal courthouse today in Baton Rouge. Suspicious package addressed to Ray Nagin.

AREA MAN INDICTED FOR ROLE IN THREAT ON FEDERAL BUILDING Man claimed former girlfriend was planning to bomb immigration office FRESNO, Calif. – A Salvadoran national indicted for contacting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and claiming that his former girlfriend was going to drive a car bomb into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office made his initial appearance in federal court here this morning. On August 16, ICE agents received an anonymous call from a man later identified as Hugo Vasquez-Cruz, 45. Vazquez told agents that a woman named Asusena Kalah was upset with immigration and planned...

A MAN has reportedly threatened to blow up a hotel in New Zealand unless he gets to speak to Prime Minister Helen Clark. Television New Zealand said police had closed off a block in the centre of the North Island city of Tauranga because of the threat. The report said the man, who claimed to have explosives, was holed up in the hotel and threatening to blow up the building if his demands were not met. The prime minister's office told the broadcaster it was not aware of the incident. Police had called in a large number of officers to...

Bail Set For Man Accused Of Threatening To Bomb Seattle Federal Building POSTED: 10:12 am PDT August 24, 2005 SEATTLE -- Bail has been set at 200-thousand dollars for a man suspected of threatening to blow up a Department of Veterans Affairs office. Charles Merle Whitaker has yet to be charged with a crime. But Dan Donohoe of the King County Prosecutor's Office says he could be charged today. Federal agents arrested 53-year-old Whitaker at his south Beacon Hill home early Monday. Court documents used to obtain a search warrant say Whitaker told acquaintances that he wanted to blow up...

SEATTLE -- Federal agents arrested a man Monday after they say he had threatened to blow up the downtown office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Charles M. Whitaker, 53, at a home in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in the city's south end. "We believe this man was potentially planning to take violent action against the local VA office," said Ian Canaan, commander of the Federal Protective Service for Western Washington. "Whether this man would have carried out his threats is uncertain, but we can not afford to take chances." Whitaker was being held...

Our correspondent Gene Allen reports that just a few minutes ago, an unidentified man telephoned the Yellow Rose Gift Shop in Crawford, Texas and said, "Your shop is going up in smoke, you better get out now." Law enforcement is on the scene. Gene describes the Yellow Rose as "a pro-Bush gift shop with a Ten Commandments monument out front. It is located across the street from the Coffee Station, down the street from the Crawford Peace House." I don't suppose any of those peace-loving folks would have anything to do with a bomb threat. Posted by John at 02:13...

More info. to follow but over 300 people evacuated. Police and FBI on scene.