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To: greenspirit who wrote (262435)	8/21/2008 8:37:19 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793911

WA State: Bomb found near Lewis County power plant The device was made from a propane tank Story Published: Aug 21, 2008 at 11:53 AM PDT Story Updated: Aug 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM PDT komonews.com By KOMO Staff CENTRALIA, Wash. - An explosive device with the potential to deliver "an incredible amount of destructive power" was found alongside tracks leading to Lewis County's Trans Alta mine on Wednesday, officials said. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office said the device was found by a Trans Alta employee who did not recognize it as a bomb and transported it in a rail truck to turn over to the supervisor. The stretch of tracks where the bomb was found is shown above. The company then alerted sheriff's deputies, who secured the scene and then called in the Washington State Patrol's bomb squad. The device was a five-gallon propane tank with green and yellow wires coming out the tank. The wires were similar to those used in electrical blasting caps. After arriving at the scene, the bomb squad x-rayed the tank, and removed a blasting cap from the device. The blasting cap had been activated but the powder inside the tank for unknown reasons had not detonated. The state patrol secured the device for further processing and the incident is still under investigation by both agencies. "This investigation is concerning for a couple obvious reasons, one of which is the damage and possible loss of life that could have occurred if the device had detonated at the mine or near somebody," said Lewis County Sheriff Steve Mansfield. When asked whether he believed a coal-fired power plant about a mile away could've been the target, Mansfield said investigators have not ruled out any possibilities. "There is a mine out there. It is a potential target. It burns coal there are people that are unhappy with that." he said. Investigators believe the bomb fell off of a train, but it is not known whether the train was heading to, or coming from that plant. Mansfield urged anyone who sees a suspicious item not to move it or touch it, but to stay a safe distance away and call 911 immediately. "A device such as this, made of common material like a propane tank, is extremely dangerous and can deliver an incredible amount of destructive power for its size," he added.