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Home Front: WoT
Breaking: Explosive Substances Found at Tri-State Airport
2006-08-17
Tri-State Airport in Wayne County has been evacuated. A perimeter has been set up, and evacuees are being asked to stand back 350 feet from the airport.

The Transportation Security Administration reports that a passenger's water bottle screened positive for an explosive material around 9:15 this morning. A second test was confirmed at 11:25. NBC News reports that federal screeners found four containers of liquids inside a woman's carry-on bag during the screening process this morning. Larry Salyers, Tri-State Airport Director, tells WSAZ the woman is of Pakistani origin, lived in Jackson, Michigan and most recently lived in the Huntington area. She is being detained for questioning.

The flight in which the woman was going to board was on its way to Charlotte, North Carolina with a final destination of Detroit, Michigan. FBI officials are on scene.

At least one flight has been diverted to Yeager Airport in Charleston. Salyers says it is uncertain when the airport will resume operations.
Posted by:Steve White

#27  Used as a diversion!

"Here honey, don't get thirsty on the flight. Take these while I load up the red truck."

Where did the ambulance go? Was it a legit call?
An ambulance traveling thru a crowd of people evacuated from an airport..pretty natural to me. Why stop it?
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-08-17 21:55  

#26  OK the proper response...
This Haji implement tomorrow's opening movie on the Haji planes from Pakiwakiland!

AHHH!!
They will wish for a bomb on the plane!

Elle Driver: The venom of a black mamba can kill a human in four hours, if, say, bitten on the ankle or the thumb. However, a bite to the face or torso can bring death from paralysis within 20 minutes. Now, you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns you. The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be gargantuan. You know, I've always liked that word..."gargantuan"... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence. If not treated quickly with antivenom, 10 to 15 milligrams can be fatal to human beings. However, the black mamba can deliver as much as 100 to 400 milligrams of venom from a single bite.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-08-17 21:06  

#25  Write it down as yet another Pak attack.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-08-17 20:37  

#24  If she is from Detriot, or wherever for that matter, find out what mosque she attends and demolish the place. Zero notice, everyone insude leaves with their hands empty and then rev up the D-9s. This needs to be SOP.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-17 18:28  

#23  There's no cute brunette in the stream. I was promised a cute brunette!

Too late again...
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2006-08-17 18:17  

#22  Thanks Big Ed!

This one sounds like it's going to be played down, too.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-17 18:15  

#21  That's all folks.... The station went back to regular broadcast... They are talking about the JonBenet Ramsay nonsense now.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 18:09  

#20  The talking in the background... The woman had a make-up bottle with nitrate residue on it...
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:53  

#19  TSA says the liquids are a "residue". WTF is a "residue", and why do the mechanical detection devices and WV State police dogs get excited about residue?
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:47  

#18  Anoither report... No commercial flights in or out since 12:30 local time, but private flights have gone in and out...

Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:38  

#17  Now they are bringing the reporters Pizza...

The reporter says 10 boxes and more drinks
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:29  

#16  Normal's getting damn weird.
Posted by: 6   2006-08-17 17:28  

#15  Some airport guy brought out all the reporters a bunch of cold drinks in a box, talk about files swarming over s**t.... The temp on the streaming video says 91F/33C at 5:30 EDT....Midsummer normal

Now a paramedic truck just wennt by... No one seems concerned... Probably some evacuee got too hot...
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:27  

#14  The latest report says that he flight went on to Charlotte without our Pak gal and her luggage. Everything was normal.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:21  

#13  Being originally from WV (The great mountains of the Monongahelia Nation Forest) and now living in Charlotte (Home of Nascar), I want to applaud our TSA personnel. Tri-State Airport is a little hole in the wall that makes jumps to larger airports like CDIA (Charlotte Douglas International Airport). I catch flights every once in a while, and she picked the wrong place to try this at. You have good ol' mountain folk just looking for something out of the ordinary. I don't want to sound too racist, but she would stick out like a sore thumb. If this is acurate, the FBI wouldn't need to talk to her. Drop her by my uncle Jeb's, he's got a few shacks in the hollows that the government doesn't know about. A little time with us and my friends. We'll get the info we need. She won't have to worry about eating pig, she'll be sqealling like one soon. Wheeee, Wheeee, oink, oink.
Posted by: DESNC   2006-08-17 17:13  

#12  No new info though the reporters just gave an update. This is the ongoing remote at the airport. The cameraman has a fixation on a brunette in tight bluejeans talking on a cell phone.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 17:05  

#11  What's in those bottles, woman?
Water.
Drinking water?
Yes.
Here,drink this one all gone.
Posted by: GK   2006-08-17 17:01  

#10  Another repoter just said this Islamophartz woman was still being questioned by the FBI.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 16:51  

#9  The reporter said the flight would goto Charlotte, then on to Detroit.

Detroit, i e
The Islamic Emirate of Dearbornistan
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 16:41  

#8  It is more ominous that is is in WV, the cancer of Islamofacism infests the heartland.

Pakistani woman..

Watching the streaming video is surreal, espoecially the quite with people walking around very non-chelant...

The reporter doing a mic check, etc...
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 16:39  

#7  Sky news stating definite Detroit link - nearby at least.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-08-17 16:35  

#6  The airport is in Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia--yeah, I thought "Detroit" at first, too, and it's not clear from the quote or the url that it isn't.
Posted by: Mike   2006-08-17 16:31  

#5  We have to win everyday, every flight, every train,.... they have to win just once...
Posted by: TomAnon   2006-08-17 16:29  

#4  The BBC article I posted which was deleted had this extra detail :
The containers were spotted in the woman's hand bag and subjected to swab tests and sniffer dog examinations, both of which gave positive results.

Officials say the woman is of Pakistani origin and was travelling on a one-way ticket to Charlotte, North Carolina.

She has been detained and is now being questioned by FBI officials.

According to the woman's travel documents she is from Jackson, Michigan and was born in 1978.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-17 16:26  

#3  Stumbe and fall...
Posted by: newc   2006-08-17 16:24  

#2  Damn, foiled by the AoS.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-17 16:23  

#1  Wayne County in Michigan. Wotta surprise. Looks like we may be nipping a lot of the build up to August 22 in the bud. I'm starting to be a believer.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-17 16:23  

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