Federal Officials: No Explosives Found In Miami Package POSTED: 3:16 pm EST January 8, 2007 UPDATED: 4:18 pm EST January 8, 2007 MIAMI -- For the second consecutive day, police reacted to a security scare at the Port of Miami on Monday. At first, the Coast Guard said a package that was about to be loaded on to a cruise ship repeatedly tested positive for plastic explosives. Now, federal officials say the package did not contain plastic explosives as initially feared. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami said Miami-Dade County police bomb squad destroyed the box and then checked it. Zach Mann said the box contained sprinkler parts, so it's not clear why earlier tests came back positive for C-4. Earlier, Coast Guard officials said that six tests were run, with each coming back positive. Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, which is scheduled to depart later on Monday, is docked near the incident. Officials were considering moving it to another area of the port so that boarding could continue. Meanwhile, all charges have been dropped against the three Middle Eastern men who inadvertently touched off a terrorism scare on Sunday at the Port of Miami. Federal investigators and a bomb squad were called in over what officials now say was a miscommunication and a language barrier. Police said a port security officer became suspicious when their truck approached a checkpoint and the driver didn't produce the right paperwork. The three are permanent U.S. residents from Iraq and Lebanon. All are from Michigan. Even though the problem was eventually identified, the men were still detained and charged with resisting an officer without violence. Court records show a judge has now dismissed all the charges and the men were freed. Stay with WESH 2 News and WESH.com for updates on this developing story. Copyright 2007 by WESH.COM <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. <http://www.wesh.com/news/10697213/detail.html> http://www.wesh.com/news/10697213/detail.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
