Bomb parts found at San Diego Airport (CBS Radio News)

[SaintLouisBlues]

Just reported on the 11:00AM CDT CBS Radio news. Found in baggage.

No link yet.


Be afraid...be very, very afraid.

Link up:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-25T160845Z_01_YUE557321_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA-AIRPORT.xml

Bomb components found at San Diego airport
Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:08 PM ET167

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baggage screeners found bomb components in a carry-on piece of luggage at San Diego International Airport on Tuesday and cleared the area to investigate, Department of Homeland Security spokesmen said.

A department spokesman said the screeners found "all components of an IED" (improvised explosive device) in a piece of luggage at around 7:45 a.m. (10:45 a.m. EDT)

They then evacuated the commuter terminal of the airport and bomb specialists began to investigate, the spokesman said.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said an employee noticed a "suspicious item" in a piece of luggage as it was going through the X-ray machine.


Update: False Alarm, as per CBS radio news at Noon CDT
Upon further inspection, the suspicious items were a toy and an unidentified organic substance.

My advise: Don't panic...it's organic!

[billybob537]

1. WAZRNING WARNING

WARNING WILL ROBINSON.

[FranzFerdinand]

2. heheh "bomb parts"...

is this all we got people???? bomb parts??? haha, damn, we suck at terror!

[Ganja Ninja]

Yeh "parts" like a backpack and a cell phone.

:eyes:

[electropop]

3. Is that terralert #2 today,

or have I lost count?

Can we estimate the timing of the indictments by the terralert rate? It's like timing the contractions of a pregnant woman.

[SaintLouisBlues]

6. What was the other? Orange County Airports?

There is a theme.

[electropop]

12. Explosion in Manhattan.

It does appear that they may be plastering terralerts all over Collifoonia because they "voted the wrong way" and just because it's fun to annoy a blue state.

[alarimer]

4. Indictments must be coming out today

They are in desperate need of a distraction.

[slackmaster]

5. "bomb parts"???

Is there any solid object that could not potentially be a "bomb part"?

[AlCzervik]

8. no kidding, fingernail clippers could be put in a shrapnel bomb

so fingernail clippers should now be considered "Bomb parts"

[HereSince1628]

7. Do they look anything like high strength aluminum tubes?

Crikey, so many things could be a bomb part.

[Maeve]

11. Weapons of Mass Distraction strike again! eom

[MidwestTransplant]

9. I am looking for the Faux newswoman to have a Terragasm on TV

[AndyTiedye]

10. MIHOP! MIHOP!

How many people will they kill this time to shut down the investigation?
:grr::scared:

[Danieljay]

13. CBS NEWS Breaking: Bomb Threats Close Calif. Airports

Indictments must be coming...diversion diversion QUICK!!

Ya gotta wonder.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/25/national/main974513.shtml

AP) Airports in Long Beach and Orange County were shut down early Tuesday because of bomb threats, officials said.

Bomb threats were made by telephone, according to Long Beach airport spokeswoman Sharon Diggs-Jackson and federal Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez.

[Massachusetts]

14. Indictments must be coming...diversion diversion QUICK!!

Move the kleig lights....quick over there.

[fooj]

15. Geez.............

:spank: So predictable...

Peace.

[global1]

16. How Come They Never Find The Person That Calls Them In?.... nt

[Danieljay]

cause they might find the origin of the Anthrax from 3 years ago...n/t

[Maeve]

25. Because Rove's phone has Caller ID Blocking? nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. I hope they are a diversion ! With the constitution passing - Al Qaida

could do something today...

[tridim]

18. BushCo pulled the fire alarm again

That's what terrorists do.

[ckramer]

29. LOL

That's true though...

[musette_sf]

20. booga booga!

[billybob537]

21. Must be

indictment time.

[electropop]

22. Is that terralert #2 today,

or have I lost count?

Earlier there was that explosion in Manhattan...

Can we estimate the timing of the indictments by the terralert rate? It's like timing the contractions of a pregnant woman.

[adigal]

23. Jeez, what a coincidence

Amazing. Simply amazing, thinking we are going to fall for this again.

[CottonBear]

24. We had a thread about Chicago and LAX bomb threats on Tue/Wed/Thu.

They are so predictable. Yawn. Terra, terra, terra.

Yesterday's terra prediction thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5154589

[NoPasaran]

26. Wooooooooolf!!!

[oregonindy]

27. LOL....this government is a scary joke...holy moley

soon the peoples march on the white house will begin.

[Initech]

28. Why Long Beach airport?

It's one building with ticket counters for three airlines, and the terminal is seperated by two trailers. Why close that one?

[DBoon]

32. because it is easy to do

and unless you know that it is a really small airport, you might think shutting it down was a big deal.

"Oh my God! They shut down an airport in Los Angeles!"

[kenny blankenship]

31. Ya gotta wonder? I no longer wonder. the coincidences are IMPOSSIBLE

well ok they're possible just unbelievable as mere coincidences.
Bushco = terrorists terrorizing "their own people".
Yes, it could be merely Bush-sympathizing neofascists creating a backdrop of terruh to support their Dear Leader; but at this point WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

[Deja Q]

38. 'John Wayne' airport?!

:eyes:

[high density]

19. ohmy i am so scared!!!

whatever shall I do??? Thank God Bush is preznit to proteckt us!!!!

[ticapnews]

30. New Homeland Security Alert System

Simply replace the words "terrorist attack" with "indictments against senior White House officials."

It's on orange now, but Chertoff expects to raise the level to red this afternoon. Then all bets are off.

As I posted on another thread:
The little boy has cried wolf too often. When he talks about terror now, it's a parody of himself. He needs more than talk to divert attention now. He needs something to happen. An attack on the homeland would certainly scare the populace, silence his critics and allow him to finally deploy troops here in the United States. Another "trifecta" he can hit...

[joefree1]

37. Maybe this one

[mike_c]

33. hmmm-- no mention of actual EXPLOSIVES....

Anybody actually ARRESTED? Doesn't sound like it. Hello?

[Roland99]

34. "All components of an IED"...that would include explosives, detonators,

trigger mechanisms, etc.



Oy vey.

[deadparrot]

35. We're all gonna DIE!

Run for your lives!

[jsamuel]

36. they just sent their bomb through carry on detectors?

Doesn't sound like they were trying to get away with it...

Remember that guy in OK who tried to board a plane with a homemade bomb.

Isn't that the same thing as an IED?

[SeattleVet]

39. It was a toy and a cookie.

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_on_re_us/airport_evacuation_2>

"Essentially what they did find was a child's toy and some organic material in a bag that turned out to be a cookie," Peppin said. "Those two items combined on-screen, they very much appeared to be an IED, and it turned out not to be."

Terra alert back to "Still waiting for indictments".

False alarm - move along - nothing to see here today - just a drill - practicing for tomorrow.

[oregonindy]

40. OH NO!!! I've got bomb parts on my desk.....call homeland security

lets see

paperclip
battery
clock
wires
plant fertilizer for my Orchid


clowns...were ruled by frickin clowns

[RamboLiberal]

41. Toy, Cookie Are Mistaken for Bomb Parts (San Diego Airport)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/25/national/a102640D26.DTL

A terminal at San Diego International Airport was evacuated Tuesday after luggage screeners mistook a child's toy and a cookie for bomb-making components, officials said.

A screening machine at the Commuter Terminal detected what appeared to be bomb-making material in a carryon bag around 7:45 a.m., said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin.

A bomb squad was called to the terminal, which serves regional flights, and investigators determined the bag did not contain any "IED," or improvised explosive devices, Peppin said.

"Essentially what they did find was a child's toy and some organic material in a bag that turned out to be a cookie," Peppin said. "Those two items combined on-screen, they very much appeared to be an IED, and it turned out not to be."

[XNASA]

42. What kind of cookie?

:shrug:

[Mabus]

43. Probably one thin wafer

ala Monty Python

[ET Awful]

44. LMFAO . . . Watch out for them chocolate chips!

:rofl:

[Connie_Corleone]

45. I bet you it was an Oreo cookie! Damn them oreo cookies! nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

46. The terrible, terrible cookies! We must run from the cookies!

Terror everywhere! Arrest that child! How dare he bring a crumbled cookie to an airport???

[NoPasaran]

47. The X-Ray looked just like yellow cake!

[Missy M]

48. That does it. The next things forbidden on flights are toys and cookies!

[Davis_X_Machina]

49. Cookie Monster was unavailable for comment...

...since he was on a C-130 being whisked off to Gitmo for processing as an enemy combattant.

[Kittycat]

50. I knew Cookie Monster was a terra-ist

ROFLMAO!

[Cooley Hurd]

51. Goddamn cookies! I lost an arm trying to defuse one!

Here's the bomb:

Fucking double-stuff!!!! I should've known! :D

[nookiemonster]

52. Anyone say cookie?

n/t

[longship]

53. Did they blow it up?

Gawd!

Be afraid!!! Be very afraid...

Cookies and toys will now be forbidden on airplanes.

Pshaw!! Blooming idiots!!

[Rainscents]

54. OMG, this is too funny! Toy and Cookie??? What next??? Dildo???

:rofl:

[Davis_X_Machina]

55. Secretary of Homeland Security Emily Litella announced today.... n/t

[MADem]

56. The Cookie Monster at work again

When will we free America from this scourge???

[MindPilot]

57. I wonder how many REAL weapons made it onto airplanes

while these dipshits looked for toys and cookies.

[zbdent]

65. At least one asshole freepturd got on with a belt-buckle knife

and, between flights, phoned in to a Right-wing freepturd radio station to brag about it . . .

You never hear about what happened to that idjit . . .

[question everything]

58. Toy car, cookie shut down Lindbergh Field's commuter terminal

Last modified Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:05 AM PDT

Toy car, cookie shut down Lindbergh Field's commuter terminal

By: North County Times

SAN DIEGO ---- The commuter terminal at Lindbergh Field in San Diego was evacuated for about an hour this morning when a toy car and a cookie in a carry-on bag looked suspicious during screening, officials said.

The discovery came on the heels of nonspecific threats phoned earlier to the Long Beach Municipal Airport and John Wayne Airport in Orange County, said Jennifer Peppin, national Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman. Peppin said no airport in this county was threatened.

However, the screening device at Lindbergh's small commuter terminal picked up what looked like something that could be a homemade explosive and "organic material" in a carry-on bag, Peppin said... The entire terminal, which also contains the airport authority's administrative headquarters, was evacuated about 7:45 a.m., said Steve Shultz, airport security spokesman. The two large terminals continued operations.

Special Agent Jan Caldwell, FBI spokeswoman, said the possible homemade explosive turned out to be a computer board in a toy radio car being taken to the Philippines. Peppin said the organic material was the cookie.

(snip)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/10/25/news/breaking/9_48_0510_25_05.txt

[bpilgrim]

59. we will pay dearly chasing shadows in fear

peace

[alcibiades_mystery]

60. I can see how they made that mistake

[alcibiades_mystery]

61. They've also identified the crazed bomb-toting suspect

[DBoon]

62. It's that evil Cookie Monster!

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster cast him into the netherworld, for eternity.

[Davis_X_Machina]

63. Years ago...

...bringing a good Yankee corned beef -- the gray kind -- back to the Deep South for an expatriates' St. Patrick's party, I made the mistake of wrapping the squarish corned beef in about ten layers of tinfoil, and then packing in in my carry-on luggage together with my alarm clock.

Even in the late '70's that was enough for the x-ray equipment.

They tore the package apart -- brine and such all over everything.

No Gitmo in those days, though....

[MindPilot]

66. Preparation H got me pulled into secondary a few years ago

Apparently on the x-ray machine, those little foil-wrapped bastards looked like bullets. (insert joke here)

[omshanti]

67. Breast pump - stymies the security guys every time.

They wouldn't take my word for it - had to get a female security person to come over and say "it's ok, that's a breast pump" before they would clear me.

idiots.

[Solly Mack]

64. Chips Ahoy! Elmo says: No cookies in the airport!

[Danmel]

68. That's pretty goofy

My husband once travelled for business with some electronics equipment that had a pressurization component. TSA didn't really like that too much, made him take it apart.

I have a prosthetic and I got dusted for explosives the last time I flew. It was pretty ridiculous- what makes them assume someone with a disability or orthopedic appliance is more likely to blow up a plane? If I wanted to blow up a plane, why would it matter which leg I blew up? They didn't check my "good" leg.

GOtta tell you, the more "security" I encounter, the less safe I feel.

[sakabatou]

69. This is very sad...

Oh man. LMAO

[Silverhair]

70. Stuff happens. One guard tried to stop a Medal of Honor.

Joe Foss, WWII hero, was going to a convention and was wearing his MOH. The airport guard thought it was a martial arts throwing star and would not let him board. The matter was straightened out.

[HuffleClaw]

71. COOKE terra ????

"in later development, a SWAT team has cordoned off sesame street, in the belief that #2 al qaeda guy and supervillaian known only as the COOKIE MONSTER is holed up with his evildoing pals, achmed Ernie and bar-salaam bert

[Ellen Forradalom]

72. Right on schedule! Terra! Terra! Forget the indictments!

*sigh*

[question everything]

73. Terminal shut: weapons of mass distraction

Terminal shut: weapons of mass distraction

Cookie and toy car in carry-on bag are culprits
By Michael Stetz
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

October 26, 2005

Blame Keebler, not al-Qaeda.

(snip)

The carry-on bag just happened to have the right mix of items to alarm screeners, said Jennifer Peppin, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.

Screening machines can't give a complete picture of what's inside luggage. In this case, she said she believed that the toy car had wires and a battery. That alarmed screeners.

Then it was determined that the carry-on also included an organic material. Organic materials, such as fertilizer, are used to make bombs. There was no way to know it was a cookie.

"It was the recipe for a bomb," Peppin said. "It was the kind of perfect mix of items. Fortunately, it was benign. But we didn't know that."

Other airports have seen similar scares, she said. In Dallas, screeners thought they saw a pipe bomb in a passenger's luggage. It turned out to be a microphone.

(snip)

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Michael Stetz: [phone]; [e-mail]


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