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Amtrak train seached after threatening note found
Associated Press | July 22 2004
Comment: Idiot left-wing anarchists said they would pull these kind of tricks ten days ago in a New York Daily News article. So-called 'anti-establishment' groups who are actually helping the establishment by giving them the justification to enact police state measures like checkpoints, ID checks and police dogs.
NEWARK, N.J. -- A threatening note found by a passenger aboard a Washington-to-New York Amtrak train prompted police to detain it at Newark Penn Station for 90 minutes Thursday morning.
Officers asked each passenger for identification, videotaped them and searched the cars with bomb-sniffing dogs.
The note contained "pro-Muslim, anti-Jewish rhetoric," according to a source familiar with the investigation. It included the phrase, "You're all sitting ducks."
Amtrak spokesman Dan Stessel said the note was attached to the mirror in a restroom of the train's cafe car. The passenger who found it notified the train crew. They called dispatchers, who had police waiting for the train at its next scheduled stop in Newark.
"The passenger did exactly the right thing," Stessel said.
He said police did a thorough search of the train, and determined it was safe.
Passengers, however, were not told what was going on. Over a cell phone from a passenger on board the train, an unidentified railroad or police worker could be overheard telling passengers, "This is an unusual situation."
Terry Taylor, The Associated Press' sports editor, boarded the train in Philadelphia, and said it was held in the Newark station shortly after 8 a.m.
The train was permitted to leave the station at 9:30 a.m. Taylor said no explanation was given to passengers, but an announcement was made thanking them for their patience.
Transit police officers came down the aisle of each car, asking to see each passenger's identification and checking the information with small hand-held computer devices, Taylor said.
Police swept overhead luggage compartments with a metal wand, and at least one police dog was brought aboard the train.
While the search was under way, police did not allow anyone on or off the train, and the platform was cordoned off with yellow police tape, she said. Passengers were told that anyone with a medical condition who needed to get off the train should speak to authorities.
The FBI's Newark office sent two agents to the station to help with the investigation.
The note was to be sent to a crime laboratory to be checked for fingerprints or other identifying evidence, Stessel said.
New Jersey State Police and railroad police stepped up patrols on trains and in stations in the aftermath of the deadly train bombings in Spain in March that killed nearly 200 people and injured 1,600.
Rail officials said last week that even more security measures would be imposed on New York-bound trains in preparation for next month's Republican National Convention in New York.
Commuters on NJ Transit trains won't be allowed to use overhead luggage racks, trash cans will be sealed and some train car restrooms will be closed during the convention.
