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Old Aug 25, 2006 | 1:55 pm
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alamedaguy
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
The news stories on this incident make little sense. Was it dynamite or simply residue?
from http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/25/jet....ap/index.html right now:

Federal authorities are investigating why the student, who got off the Continental plane in Houston before it continued to Newark, New Jersey, had the explosive residue and what he intended to do with it, FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said.
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