Miami Airport Reopened After Security Closure
Source: AP / CBS News
A spokesman for Miami International Airport said four of its six concourses were evacuated as a police bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious item. (AP Photo)
A government official says a scientist has been detained in Miami after screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb.
The official says the FBI and Miami Dade police are interviewing the 70-year-old man.
CBS Station WFOR correspondent Sharrie Williams reports the passenger, a U.S. citizen, arrived on an international flight from Brazil.
“He’s being very cooperative,” FBI agent Michael Leverock said at a news conference in Miami. “He’s not under arrest at this time.”
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Karzai’s Brother Calls For U.S. To Guarantee Kabul Bank Deposits Amid Bank Run
Source: Andrew Higgins and Ernesto Londoño / The Washington Post
Dubai – As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan’s biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
“America should do something,” said Karzai in a telephone interview, suggesting that the U.S. Treasury Department guarantee the funds of Kabul Bank’s clients, who number about a million and have more than a billion dollars on deposits with the bank.
Kabul Bank handles salary payments for soldiers, police and teachers. It has scores of branches across Afghanistan and holds the accounts of key Afghan government agencies. The collapse of the bank would likely spread panic throughout the country’s fledgling financial sector and wipe out nine years of effort by the United States to establish a sound Afghan banking system, seen as essential to the establishment of a functioning economy.
Action by the United States, said Mahmoud Karzai, would prevent a run on Kabul Bank and protect other banks, too. He said Kabul Bank is “stable and has money” but cannot withstand a stampede by panicked depositors.
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Sphere: Related ContentGOP Claims Iraqi Success Despite Obama
Source: Dana Bash / CNN
Washington – In twin speeches laced with heavy doses of “I-told-you-so,” Republicans leaders in the House and Senate tried to convince voters Tuesday that America’s success in Iraq is not because of President Barack Obama, but in spite of him.
“Some leaders who opposed, criticized, and fought tooth-and-nail to stop the surge strategy now proudly claim credit for the results,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, in prepared remarks before the American Legion convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“One lawmaker rejected the idea that the surge would reduce violence in Iraq, saying – and again I’m quoting – ‘in fact, I think it will do the reverse.’”
The lawmaker Boehner is referring to is then-Sen. Barack Obama. Boehner aides said he was reluctant to criticize the commander-in-chief by name in front of a room of veterans, but insisted it would be clear who he was talking about.
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Sphere: Related ContentObama Aide: Iraq Speech Not A victory Lap
Source: Dan Lothian / CNN
When President Obama steps into the Oval Office to deliver his prime-time address on Tuesday, he won’t be taking a victory lap and won’t utter the words “mission accomplished, a top aide says. Instead, the president will have a “change of mission” moment, where he explains the way forward in Iraq and thanks U.S. troops for their sacrifice.
The address, which is expected to last between 15 and 20 minutes, will mark what the White House is calling an important “milestone” and a campaign promise accomplished.
While the president’s remarks have not been released, top aides say Americans will hear about the end of the combat mission in Iraq, about the challenges of forming a unified and stable government, and about the new role for the fewer than than 50,000 U.S. troops remaining to advise and assist Iraqi security forces.
“We will be their ally, but the responsibility of charting the future of Iraq first and foremost belongs to the Iraqis,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNN’s “American Morning.”
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Sphere: Related ContentABC News Exclusive: Two Men on United Flight from Chicago Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam
Source: Richard Esposito, Christine Brouwer and Brian Ross / ABC News
Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, left, and Hezem al Murisi, were taken off a United Airlines flight in the Netherlands and have been charged by Dutch police with "preparation of a terrorist attack," according to a U.S. law enforcement official. (ABC News)
Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed “mock bombs” in their luggage. “This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” said one senior law enforcement official.
A spokesman for the Dutch public prosecutor, Ernst Koelman, confirmed the two men were arrested this morning and said “the investigation is ongoing.” He said the arrests were made “at the request of American authorities.”
Officials said, al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives. Officials said there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O’Hare.
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