I know I'm a day late, but here's something I just found too coincidental. Alert for stolen propane trucks comes on same day DOJ reveals Padilla's "plan" to use natural gas:
FBI Issues Alert For Propane Trucks Stolen In S.A.
Wed Jun 2,11:09 AM ET
The FBI (news - web sites) issued an alert Tuesday (June 1) for two propane trucks and 15 gas canisters that were stolen over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend in San Antonio.
FBI Agent-In-Charge Patrick Patterson, of San Antonio, said the possibility that the propane could be used to create a bomb prompted him to notify the National Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington and law enforcement officials in Texas.
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'Dirty bomb' suspect Jose Padilla planned to blow up apartment buildings, government says
By Larry Margasak
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:31 p.m. June 1, 2004
WASHINGTON – Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla is a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaeda leaders, discussed detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States and accepted an assignment to use natural gas to blow up high-rise apartment buildings, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.
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