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The Bomb Squad Missed the Bomb

March 26, 2008 7:44 AM

Whenever there is a suspicious package, a suspicious pickup truck or a man carrying a gun and a sword near the U.S. Capitol, the bomb squad swings into action, streets get shut down, there is traffic chaos and the cable networks go nuts!

That's what happened last January 18th when Capitol Hill police spotted an armed Michael S. Gorbey near the Capitol and his pickup truck parked a couple of blocks away.  But when the bomb squad was called in to take a look at the truck, they missed something---THE BOMB! 

That according to WASHINGTON POST reporters Mary Beth Sheridan and Keith L. Alexander who say the crude device, "a can of gunpowder duct-taped to a box of shotgun shells and a bottle containing buckshot or BB pellets" was not discovered until FEBRUARY when the police took a second look at Gorbey's truck that had been sitting in a government printing office parking lot since being seized THREE WEEKS earlier. 

A source told the POST reporters that because the incident happened on a Friday afternoon just as the long Martin Luther King Holiday weekend was about to begin, and drivers and residents were complaining about street closures, "BOMB SQUAD TECHNICIANS WERE URGED BY THEIR SUPERIORS TO HURRY AND THEY MISSED THE DEVICE that was rolled up in old clothes behind the driver's seat."   

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