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FBI Furious Over Release of Detainees -Herald
MIAMI (Reuters) - Federal agents are searching for six men who were detained in the U.S. Midwest but later released even though they were carrying material about a nuclear power plant in Florida and an Alaskan pipeline, the Miami Herald reported on Wednesday.
FBI (news - web sites) director Robert Mueller was said to be ``furious'' at the release, the Herald said, citing an unidentified senior law enforcement official.
The incident apparently contributed to the new terror warning issued by the U.S. government, it said.
FBI and INS officials were not immediately available to comment on the report.
Police stopped the six men traveling in two cars in an unidentified state over the weekend, the paper said. They were carrying photographs and information on a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. They also carried box-cutters and other ``suspicious equipment,'' it said.
The men who hijacked four planes on Sept 11, killing more than 4,800 people and triggering the U.S. war against terrorism, used box-cutters to overpower flight crews.
The suspects in the Midwest incident appeared to be from the Middle East and carried Israeli passports, according to the Herald report. The Immigration and Naturalization Service decided the passports were valid and they had entered the United States legally and it released the suspects without consulting the FBI, it said.
Florida has three nuclear power plants -- at Turkey Point, south of Miami, St. Lucie, and the Crystal River plant north of St. Petersburg. |
