Middle Easterners try to sneak into the Port of Miami.
A strong smell of natural gas covers lower Manhattan.
Dead birds are found in downtown Austin and officials are trying to determine if a gas of some kind killed them.
Are our defenses being probed? Officials in Miami were quick ? too quick, if you ask me ? to give a benign explanation:
Three
Middle Eastern men in a cargo truck sparked a brief terrorism scare at
the Port of Miami until officials determined their freight was harmless
and the incident had stemmed from a simple misunderstanding.
The port’s cargo area was shut down Sunday and a bomb squad moved the
truck away from public areas to scan it for radioactive materials.
Nothing unusual was found, officials said.The men in the truck – two Iraqis and one Lebanese national – were in
local police custody, but authorities said no federal charges were
expected. Officials initially said the men, all permanent U.S.
residents, had been caught trying to slip past a checkpoint at the
port’s entrance.
