Two Middle Eastern truck drivers acting suspicious & carrying radioactive cargo

Around 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 20, 2006, an alert employee working the fuel desk at the Travel America of America Truck Stop on Interstate 80 in Brookville, Pennsylvania noticed that several things were “wrong.” Two men, both of Middle Eastern origin, speaking Arabic and broken English and operating a tractor trailer, with the trailer bearing radioactive cargo placards, provided the travel center false information: fraudulent registration information and a false vehicle identification number.

While one of the men was at the fuel desk, the other purchased a heavy-duty lock used to secure the rear cargo door of the trailer from the general store within the travel center. The men were observed as one used bolt cutters to cut the existing lock from the cargo door, after which both men entered the trailer. After being inside for a short time, both men exited the trailer and secured the cargo door with the newly purchased lock.

The men then proceeded to travel west on I-80 through Pennsylvania and into Ohio where they were stopped by the Ohio Highway Patrol inside Ohio. The Northeast Intelligence Network continues to investigate the incident, and any specific details developed will be contained in the upcoming issue of our HQ INTEL-ALERT Private Intelligence Report.

Source: Northeast Intelligence Network

This terrific web site also carried the following story yesterday:

18-Wheels of Mass Destruction in America By Sean Osborne

I have learned from a confidential source that at the present time the Federal Bureau of Investigation has this specific threat on their front burner. The FBI believes this specific threat is very real and of imminent concern.

At a time when most of our attention is focused upon near-miss terrorist plots involving commercial aviation, disturbances onboard in-flight aircraft by a single woman or groups of Arab men, and mutinies of paying commercial passengers refusing to board aircraft when suspicious persons are in their midst… we risk overlooking a another current and very real threat right here in the continental United States – the thefts of commercial vehicles which potentially may be utilized by terrorists as Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).

Vehicles such as these were used in the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Those two attacks killed 174 innocent American citizens and wounded over 1,800. The 1993 WTC mass-murder attempt also was an attempt at terrorist chemical warfare with the release of quickly lethal sodium cyanide.

I have learned from a confidential source that at the present time the Federal Bureau of Investigation has this specific threat on their front burner. The FBI believes this specific threat is very real and of imminent concern.

My source has stated that what most concerns the FBI are between 20 and 25 commercial semi-tractor trailers which have recently been stolen from parking yards around the country. Additional, and in direct support and conjunction with this information, I also learned from yet another source that within the past couple of days another pair of 18-wheelers have been gone missing, one from Barstow, California and another from Gastonia, North Carolina. The threat specific locales being mentioned by anonymous sources regarding this threat are as follows – Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Las Vegas, Nevada and Miami, Florida.

The Northeast Intelligence Network has long been in the vanguard in reporting the thefts of such commercial vehicles – to include the never recovered 9,200 gallon gasoline tanker stolen between 8-12 April 2004 from the TK Transport Terminal yard in Pennsauken, New Jersey to the more recent 24-foot box truck carrying 485 gallons of hypochlorite solution stolen from Savol Bleach in East Hartford, Connecticut on June 8, 2006.

The threats to America are very real, from above and from ground level. This is no time for complacency at home. Every US citizen’s vigilance is warranted – our enemies smell blood – let us all endeavor to ensure that it is not ours which is spilt.