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No WaPo breaking news alert: Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In N.J.
2007-07-20
A Jersey City woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass. Niranjana Besai was leaving her house at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work at just after 8 a.m. when she saw the launcher on her front lawn. She immediately called police.

Besai's neighbor, Joe Quinn saw her pointing at the equipment from her front porch. When he walked over to the six-foot-long weapon, he was just as shocked. “It looked like a bazooka,” he told CBS 2 News. Quinn tells CBS 2 HD he originally thought the launcher was just a pipe, but after noticing it had a picture of a soldier on it, he realized it looked similar to a missile launcher he'd seen on television.

Jersey City Police removed the launcher, and the incident is now being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and The Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jersey City Police could not confirm whether it was actually operable. But, sources tell CBS 2Â’s Scott Weinberger that itÂ’s the kind of missile that can take down an aircraft and the area where the launcher was discovered is in or very near a flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.
Posted by:Seafarious

#14  Nay McZoid, just a bunch of BIG ladies in burquas.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2007-07-20 21:37  

#13  There wouldn't happen to be a lot of bearded guys living in that neighborhood, would there?
Posted by: McZoid   2007-07-20 20:36  

#12  I live on the other side of the tracks from where they found the launcher- that's the bad part of town, and frankly I've always suspected that the locals packed serious heat. It's a tough neighborhood, you've got to be strapped.
Posted by: WhitecollarRedneck   2007-07-20 15:35  

#11  New data added to the story since it first broke.

thanks, Steve.
Posted by: lotp   2007-07-20 14:30  

#10  Yawn, read the whole story: Sources tell CBS 2 HD that the device is an AT-4 missile launcher that is used to fire against tanks and buildings.

It's the launcher they found, not a missile.

The M136 AT4 is a lightweight, self-contained, antiarmor weapon consisting of a free-flight, fin-stabilized, rocket-type cartridge packed in an expendable, one-piece, fiberglass-wrapped tube.

Like the old LAWS rocket, once you fire the weapon, you toss the launcher away. Somebody in the service most likely brought one home from the range, his kids found it and took it out to play with and they dropped it on this ladies lawn. Really, nothing to see.
Posted by: Steve   2007-07-20 14:19  

#9  And of course this is not related to terror in any fashion.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-07-20 13:58  

#8  hey, it's New Jersey! Having a rocket-launcher only temporarily made her the most heavily armed person on her block!!

Now Besai's neighbors are going to feel the need purchase Russian made SAM-7s...and thus another Jersey arms-race kicks off!! *sigh*
Posted by: Justrand   2007-07-20 13:47  

#7  This has global warming written all over it!
Posted by: Destro in Panama   2007-07-20 13:26  

#6  Hi, honey. Did you forget something this morning?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-07-20 13:02  

#5  after noticing it had a picture of a soldier on it

Huh?

Perhaps a silhouette showing the proper stance for firing? Because I can't imagine any other reason to put "a picture of a soldier" on a weapon.

Ya gotta love "journalists". They seem incapable of trying to clarify anything.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-07-20 13:01  

#4  This could end up being a huge grant opportunity for some scientist to study the migratory and nesting habits of the North American military rocket launcher.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-20 12:38  

#3  Be careful she dose'nt get sued by whoever they catch for this. It could of been purchased for art work. And since they can now sue, she could be in bigggg trouble.
Posted by: plainslow   2007-07-20 12:33  

#2  Hey Mo, where did you put that rocket launcher? It's not in the back of the truck.

But Abdul - I thought you put it back in the truck!
Posted by: AT   2007-07-20 12:23  

#1  Watch this story vanish..nothing to see here foldks...move laong.
Posted by: Chenter Unimp7361   2007-07-20 12:17  

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