Stardate 20011019.1607 (On Screen): You know, with all the reports of places being evacuated because of powdered sugar, and confetti, and stuff like that, it's almost refreshing to hear a report of an evacuation which was really justified. Almost, that is, but not quite: what the fuck was someone in Philadelphia doing with
five ounces of C4? It was checked into a locker in a bus depot on September 29, and declared abandoned and removed on October 3. It was opened today as part of a routine process of dispensing with unclaimed luggage. Of course, today's quiz is "Foreign, or domestic?" I think it will turn out to be foreign, not domestic. While I don't think the anthrax attacks are associated with al Qaeda (though I have no particular basis for that) I suspect this
will turn out to be linked to them. But unlike the anthrax, it should be possible to trace this. They put markers in explosives when they're manufactured for precisely this reason.
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