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U.S. to Offer Turkey Help on PKK The U.S. is to offer Turkey a package of measures to dissuade Ankara from mounting a large-scale military incursion into Iraq to attack PKK Kurdish guerrillas, who have killed scores of Turkish soldiers in recent weeks. Ahead of a meeting in Washington on Monday between President George W. Bush and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, U.S. officials said Ankara would have to get concrete American help to combat the PKK, which has bases in northern Iraq from where it frequently launches attacks into Turkey. “Erdogan has to go back with the...

Arrests made in bomb-related cases By LEVI PULKKINEN P-I REPORTER Bainbridge Island police arrested a 17-year-old boy Friday after a search of his computers revealed bomb threats against Bainbridge Island High School.Police found marijuana and bomb-making materials at the boy's home following a bomb threat against the school in June, Deputy Chief Mark Duncan said. The boy pleaded guilty to several related charges in juvenile court earlier this year. During a search of 17 computers found at the boy's home, police found a message from the boy to another student that included a bomb threat, Duncan said. The boy...

Exclusive: Back-to-School Bomb Threats: At Least 13 U.S. Universities Targeted Email Share September 04, 2007 1:33 PMRichard Esposito Reports: At least 13 U.S. universities, including Princeton, MIT and Carnegie Mellon, have been targeted for anonymous e-mail bomb threats as students return to classes, federal and local law enforcement authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.One of the schools, Clemson University, in Clemson, S.C., was targeted again today and an evacuation was ordered, ABC News has learned."We have had three in the last 10 days," Clemson University spokeswoman Robin Denny said of the bomb threats. She said the university has been...

CLEVELAND, Aug. 31 -- The FBI is looking overseas for suspects who have phoned bomb threats to more than 26 grocery stores, banks and discount stores in 17 states, including Virginia. The callers have threatened to set off a bomb unless store employees wire money to an account abroad. At a Dillons grocery store in Hutchinson, Kan., the caller ordered customers and workers to take off their clothes and threatened to force them to cut off a manager's fingers.

FBI Has 'Pretty Good Leads' in Threats Published: 8/31/07, 4:47 PM EDT By JOE MILICIACLEVELAND (AP) - The FBI is looking overseas for suspects who have phoned bomb threats to more than 24 grocery stores, banks and discount stores in 15 states, including at least six new cases Friday in Ohio. The callers have threatened to set off a bomb unless store employees wire money to an account abroad. At a Dillons grocery store in Hutchinson, Kan., the caller ordered customers and workers to take off their clothes and threatened to force them to cut off a manager's fingers. Store...

I couldn't get out to the suburbs this evening from Copenhagen by train. When I was on the platform, a woman got a cellphone from her son telling her that bomb threats were shutting certain stations down. Just then, police arrived with dogs on the platform. So I paid $50 for a taxi. The woman did the same. I will tell you one thing: this kind of sick behavior is not making the Danish people want to apologize to anybody. About the $50 cab ride: this is because, if you buy a car in Denmark for $10,000...you owe the government...

Fox News reporting train (possibly Amtrak) being evacuated near Cumberland, MD, west of Washington, D.C.

Fox News reporting that an Amtrak Train has been evacuated near Cumberland, Maryland. There appearently were concerns about the route earlier. Updates will follow when available.

A 29-year-old woman has been sentenced to two years of probation for calling German airports with bomb threats in order to avoid a vacation with her boyfriend. Marina Busbosnjac, a student, had admitted on Wednesday that she made calls to the airports in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Cologne last September, claiming al Qaeda wanted to bomb them. The Croatian-born woman said hoped to get the flight cancelled because her parents disapproved of her relationship with her Polish boyfriend. "I couldn't say to my boyfriend that we couldn't travel," Busbosnjac said, according to the Associated Press. The bomb threats shut down Düsseldorf...

Three U.S. Passenger Jets Targeted by Bomb Threats 9 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! DETROIT (Reuters) - Security officials aided by sniffer dogs swept through three U.S. passenger jets on Tuesday after they were targeted by bomb threats, authorities said. The aircraft, all operated by Northwest Airlines, included one that arrived at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport on Tuesday morning on a flight from Miami, spokesmen for Northwest and the Transportation Security Administration, told Reuters. The plane in Detroit was still being searched about two hours after it landed, according to TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark, who added...

CNN reported this as breaking news around 10:15 a.m. PST. Supposedly a bomb threat -- the flight is landed in Iceland at this time.