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To: Jill who wrote (4508)	10/12/2001 9:15:45 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Re: Halloween warning - a local talk radio show said yesterday that it was a hoax. FWIW.

To: Jill who wrote (4508)	10/12/2001 9:33:51 AM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Meanwhile, how come nobody is mentioning that 700 pounds of explosives were stolen from Houston The incident has been mentioned in several articles. Just three of them: dailynews.yahoo.com KPRC Click2Houston.com Thursday October 11 12:05 AM EDT 700 Pounds Of Explosives Stolen From Warehouse Investigators are searching for 700 pounds of explosives that were discovered missing from a northeast Houston warehouse Wednesday afternoon. The federal government has also joined the investigation as a precaution in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The explosives are shaved charges, and they were stolen sometime between Saturday and Tuesday night from Air Jack Drilling at North Beltway 8 and Lockwood. ... dailynews.yahoo.com Friday October 12 4:36 AM ET FBI Issues Warning About New Attacks By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer ... In Houston, authorities investigated the apparent theft of 700 pounds of explosives from a storage site. Federal agents said it was too early to tell if the theft from AirJac Drilling Inc. was terrorist-related. ... interactive.wsj.com Wall Street Journal October 12, 2001 FBI Warns of New Terror Attack, Puts Enforcement Agencies on Al By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, GARY FIELDS and YOCHI DREAZEN ... Bomb jitters also appeared to play a role in the response by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the reported theft in Texas of the explosives used in seismic exploration for oil and natural gas. A spokeswoman for the BATF, the federal agency that regulates the explosives industry, said it doesn't have any suspects in the case. "We don't have any evidence as far as terrorism at this point, but we haven't completely ruled it out," said Franceska Perot, spokeswoman for the BATF Houston field office. Ms. Perot said the material, a dynamite-like substance called Pentolite, was stolen sometime between Saturday and Tuesday from a remote location outside Houston. An employee of AirJac Drilling Inc., a unit of Houston's Veritas DGC Inc., discovered explosives missing on Tuesday afternoon. A locked gate into a remote metal storage bunker on the east side of Lake Houston was vandalized, said Dennis Jordhoy, a Veritas spokesman. Taken were blasting caps and long cylindrical tubes, varying in size from 25 to 30 inches, he said. The explosives are encased in plastic and can be handled easily without exploding. Ms. Perot said someone who wanted to use the explosives would need some skill and knowledge to set them off. "They're not something you could just light and throw," she said. The missing explosives are known as "shaped charges." Originally designed for military use, primarily to blow up tanks, they direct the force of a blast in a certain direction, allowing smaller charges to be more potent to a target. The Veritas charges were designed for oil exploration, mining and sometimes to fight oil fires. Veritas said it had never suffered a theft of explosives before. The BATF said the company hadn't violated any storage rules. One explosives expert said he doubted charges such as those stolen from Veritas could be used to create dangerous explosions. The charges "are not something you would lay out on the ground and cause mass destruction with," said Raymond Henry, senior well-control officer for Boots & Coots Inc., which specializes in putting out oil-well fires. ...