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To: John Carragher who wrote (215229)	8/10/2007 5:38:23 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 794001

The authorities are hedging their bets about what was found in the car. Maybe they just slapped on the pipe bomb charge so they could hold the guys for further investigation... 2 USF Students In S.C. Charged With Possession Of Pipe Bomb news.tbo.com Prosecutors, the Berkeley County sheriff and an FBI spokesman have offered different descriptions of the trunk's contents. The sheriff's office blew up the material it found suspicious. Authorities won't know definitively what the material was until the FBI completes forensic tests, DeWitt said. DeWitt said the men claimed the items were fireworks and that it's possible they were. "Based on the officer's judgment at hand and as to what he had seen - we thought it to be other than fireworks," DeWitt said. Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington, told Reuters on Sunday that the men had "some materials to make some pretty good-sized homemade fireworks but not bomb stuff."