1 taken into custody after suspicious vehicle found near the Pentagon

Source: Washington Post

ARLINGTON, Va. — One person was taken into custody early Friday in connection with an investigation into a suspicious vehicle near the Pentagon, authorities said.

In addition, Pentagon police spokesman Chris Layman said one or two other people may have been involved. The car was in bushes near the Pentagon’s north parking lot, Layman said.

Police were investigating a suspicious package in the vehicle, said a U.S. official familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still underway. The official said police found a suspicious person near Arlington National Cemetery and the person led them to the vehicle, off the road between the Pentagon and the cemetery.

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He led them to the car, apparently. Roads around the Pentagon were closed for the past hour, and I-395 is an absolute parking lot.

The Pentagon can't defend itself. Hell on 9/11 they never even closed the highways around the Pentagon even after the second tower was hit. I guess the "car bomb" wasn't invented yet. LOL!

in the "official" 9/11 narrative, of which there are probably thousands. :evilfrown:

The traffic reports on WTOP about the mess around the Pentagon sounded awful.

WTOP, of course. I usually take the DASH bus from Alexandria to the Pentagon and transfer to Metrorail there. Not today. I took the Yellow Line all the way from Braddock Road. The Pentagon station platform usually has a few hundred people on it. I saw maybe three when our train got there. I left home a few minutes early and got to work fifteen minutes early.

Coworkers who do come up I-395 or also transfer at the Pentagon were late. They must not have heard in time.

"Traffic and weather together on the eights."

I had to backtrack, and cross the Roosevelt bridge, making my way through town.

Just another boogah boogah performance.

I have to get back there again sometime.

And you can take your bike on the Metrorail and buses, too.

Color me afraid. Not.

Let me ask this: how long does it take to investigate a suspicious package? Was there a bomb in it? If not, then move on.

Most DUers have heard of compassion fatigue. Well, I'm suffering from fear fatigue. Nearly 10 years, now. It gets old. x(

So we need to gin up another one, complete with scary dark-skinned foreigner, references to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and that scary, scary fertilizer.

One thing I notice is that whenever they get around to mentioning fertilizer or ammonium nitrate, the ever-helpful news readers never quite explain why ammonium nitrate fertilizer is bad. For some reason, the destruction of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City never quite makes it into the liturgical recitation of terrorist attacks on our country.

it doesn't fit the script. Just like the anthrax attacks - when it turned out it was a type that came from Ft. Detrick, MD, it might have engendered inconvenient questions about homegrown terrorists (for instance, Cheney/Bush).

So they hung it on some poor schlump who obligingly committed suicide IIRC. It's all good.

edit> typos. I really need a new keyboard.

It's a GOOD thing these incidents/suspicious people are looked into b/c Washington IS a target, no matter what skin color a suspicious person may have.

FYI, DC is full of people from other countries of all nationalities, ethnicity and colors. People in DC are not just hauled off the street or out of a national memorial because they "look" different, or half the population would be investigated. The white population is barely a majority, I think at last census 54%---and a lot of "whites" are mixed race.

Your post shows your ignorance of what DC is all about, and what good people who live here every day must deal with. DC IS a target and I for one am thankful we have policemen and park police patrolling and investigating suspicious people and packages. Maybe it's nothing, but better be safe than sorry.