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| Boomer valise found at Philadelphia bus station |
| 2001-10-20 |
A suitcase holding military explosives powerful enough to level a building was found yesterday at Philadelphia's Greyhound bus station. Cops removed the bomb-making material without incident. "If it had gone off, it would have blown up the whole terminal," said Philadelphia police spokesman Sgt. Roland Lee. "It was very disturbing because that location is heavily traveled." Authorities said they found five ounces of C-4 explosive — which looked like and was about the size of a bar of soap — in a black, soft-sided suitcase with about 1,000 feet of detonation cord. It had been checked in a locker at the station Sept. 29, police said. Bus station workers removed the suitcase from the locker yesterday and opened it because the time limit for the locker was long expired. And the 5th Column continues its operations within the country. It might be racial profiling, but we would expect the suspect to be an Arab between the ages of 22 and 35, clean-shaven and neatly dressed, possibly living in the Trenton area. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |