Hotel Evacuation In Washington - CNN Breaking

[Podface]

Cnn reporting that the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in DC, not far from the White House is being evacuated. Officials say they have credible info that a bomb is in the basement. Local Police and FBI is on the scene.

Reported at 2:12 PM on CNN.

Fox is reporting that they are indeed working on a bomb. They have blockied off a much larger area than would normally be expected. 3 Block s that surround the hotel.

Faux now reporting that is was a fake bomb. OK, I call BULLSHIT!

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Don't see a thing about that on the home page.

Hmm...

[IndianaGreen]

8. Faux is the only network with any sort of news on weekends

CNN and MSNBC are doing their weekend imitation of Entertainment Tonight.

[nothometoday]

51. Love the cat

Lokks just like ours...:)

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. CNN doing Jon Voight bio?

Guess the advertisers paid for that, not a bomb in DC.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby.24186960

[MODemocrat]

45. Oldtime dfl_er, that a great looking T-shirt

for a great leader. Is that available on the Avatars?

[oldtime dfl_er]

47. No idea how to even begin to do that

but thanks for the compliment!

[SoCalDem]

63. avatar.. a bit hard to read..but

[Rainscents]

3. Ok, I'll wait and see........... another make believe treat?

CNN reporting is always WRONG!!!

[auntAgonist]

4. None of my news feeds have reports of this

???

[Casandra]

5. Wrong hotel!

Just heard on 'Faux', it's the Mayflower Hotel, and yes this is considered to be an explosive device...AKA bomb! That's all there is, for now!

[Podface]

7. Yup

Renaissance Mayflower Hotel

[niallmac]

6. When I saw what the price of a room there was

I evacuated the lobby a long time ago. Hope this is just homeland security boosting our poor chimps morale.

[onehandle]

9. Stayed there a few years ago.

Nice room. Incredible brunch.

Nice staff. Hope this news turns out to be untrue.

[grytpype]

10. A bomb in the basement...

.... tsk tsk tsk, they're gonna lose a star for that.

[Roland99]

11. Don't they know to have these terruh 'lerts during the week?

[cal04]

12. Suspicious Package Evacuates Hotel

Suspicious Package Evacuates Hotel
Updated: Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005 - 2:28 PM

WASHINGTON -- About 300 people have been evacuated from the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington because a suspicious package in the basement.
A bomb squad from D.C. Fire and EMS is on the scene. Spokesman Alan Etter says the incident is being handled as a credible threat.

D.C. Police and the FBI are also at the scene.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=553973

[alarcojon]

16. No explosives, device has been disrupted

is what your link says now.

[cal04]

23. Updated at 2:48

Bomb technicians have disrupted a suspicious package found Sunday afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel. About 300 people were evacuated from the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington because a suspicious package in the basement. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department spokesman Alan Etter says a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department bomb squad blew up the package which investigators say was deliberately made to look like a real bomb.

It did not contain any explosives.
The Mayflower Hotel remains evacuated. About 350 staffers and guests are being kept out of the building while bomb technicians and police handlers with bomb sniffing dogs check the entire building.

D.C. Police and the FBI are also at the scene.

[Horse with no Name]

32. It was probably someone's misplaced laundry

:rofl:
Fucking keystone cop morons.

[rox63]

13. Gotta ramp up the fear factor

'Cause Cindy Sheehan's protest is getting too much attention. :sarcasm:

[jobycom]

27. You know, things do just happen sometimes

If they wanted to distract, it wouldn't be fake bomb.

[jillan]

42. Repugs = If you don't like the news, CHANGE IT!

Can't spend the whole weekend on Sheehan, can we???

[rateyes]

14. Just "google earthed" it..

it's 4 blocks north of WH. Hope it's nothing more than a sick prank, and that the pranksters are caught. (even if it is somebody in administration!

:o

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. CNN TV reporting it was a hoax n/t

[niallmac]

20. GOOD! Bad, but good. n/t

[maddezmom]

21. here's a link...no explosives found

Suspicious Package Evacuates HotelUpdated: Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005 - 2:41 PM

WASHINGTON -- Bomb technicians have disrupted a suspicious package found Sunday afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel.
About 300 people were evacuated from the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington because a suspicious package in the basement.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department spokesman Alan Etter says a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department bomb squad blew up the package which investigators say was deliberately made to look like a real bomb.

It did not contain any explosives
more:
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=553973

[niallmac]

17. Link?

[Whoa_Nelly]

18. Am watching CNN--no online link that I know of

[maddezmom]

24. here is a link

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=553973

[TahitiNut]

19. What happened to the 'roomful of explosives' theory?

It wasn't that long ago that the hysteria was fed by 'reports' that (so-called) terrorists had a plan to take rooms in hotels and pack them with explosives. So, how did they get to the basement?

[soothsayer]

22. Who would blow up the mayflower? That old dump.

[Warren Stupidity]

33. Hey I stayed there on my high school DC trip

back in the 60's. We were stoned or drunk or both every night. Nothing but fond memories for that dump.

[Samantha]

54. Please don't say that

The Mayflower is a beautiful, historic place. It's a one of a kind. I cannot stand the thoughts someone would even think about blowing it up.

This is where John F. Kennedy used to meet his trysts and the Secret Service would stand guard. No one publicly talked about his "meet-ups" there and no one threatened to impeach him over these trysts. I told you it was historical!

It's really a grand old place, and DC would not be the same without it.

[soothsayer]

61. Threw my best friend's baby shower there (sniff sniff) but really--

it's a waste of a terrorist's time....

I myself like, it like you kids do.

[dogday]

25. Faux is now reporting a hoax

or one way to try to get the media attention off of Cindy... Expect more Terra warnings....

[Podface]

26. Come ON!

If they disabled a real bomb, wouldn't it be better to say it was fake? Tourism would suffer and some people would freak if it was real. The idea of terrorism once again being actively pursued on American soil is not a good thing for the American comfort level.

I find it hard to believe that it was a hoax. What would it possibly achieve?

If something else pops up soon, I'm sure the story will change.

[TheWatcher]

39. You're adorable.

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. They blew up a lunch box that belong to a City Commissioner

down here in FL the other day. Apparently he left it in the Commissioners' chamber and someone saw it and called in the bomb squad. The funny part is that the Commissioner who owned the lunch box is a Unitarian minister who is one of the gentlest people you would ever want to meet. LOL.

[1monster]

44. I hope that whoever called the bomb squad had goodness to buy the

City Commissioner lunch. Or, at least, take up a collection from all involved in blowing up his lunch so he could buy his own...

[cal04]

29. AP:Fake Bomb Found, Destroyed at Mayflower Hotel

Sunday, August 14, 2005; 2:54 PM

Bomb technicians have disrupted a suspicious package found this afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department spokesman Alan Etter says a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department bomb squad blew up the package which investigators say was deliberately made to look like a real bomb. It did not contain any explosives.

The Mayflower Hotel remains evacuated. About 350 staffers and guests are being kept out of the building while bomb technicians and police handlers with bomb sniffing dogs check the entire building.


The F.B.I is also at the scene in the 1100 block of 17th St., NW.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081400549.html

[Gregorian]

31. Kaczynski's ghost?

Look at us jump! You know, had we not created the environment that nurtured terrorism, we wouldn't have to jump. When will people ever learn to think about the results of their actions? The answer lies in the media. We were never informed about the things that were being done by corporations, around the world, in our name. Boo! Jump!
Let's turn it around. Let's have a kindler and gentler new world order, for real this time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

46. Sure...but Kaczynski's not dead.

:shrug:

[Fovea]

34. Would someone explain why you have to

destroy a fake bomb?

It would be enough to take it to the police station and dust it for prints.

You cannot disrupt a fake device, merely, render it unable to provide evidence.

[havocmom]

41. good points

hmmmmm

[Olney Blue]

50. I'm not an expert, but I understand that there is a protocol

that the bomb squads follow when they find a suspicious package. After checking the package with non-invasive methods and finding evidence for a timer or other devices, they often detonate it. The trade-off for blowing it up is that they destroy evidence (like finger prints, etc). However, its too risky to pick up a suspicious package to transport it.

Anyway, that's my understanding, and if someone knows better jump in.

[lovuian]

38. Interesting Location 17th Street

Was it was a false alarm or a dry run thats the question?

[flordehinojos]

30. okay ..... here we go with reinforcing for the sheeple the need for the

invasion and occupation of IRAQ, the need for our giving up our rights to privacy and increased POLICE STATE, the showing off that bush is GOTHIC CITY's ENEMY #1... except that we have become GOTHIC CITY, he is not BATMAN and he is PUBLIC ENEMY #1 a la JOKER: SPREADING FEAR, FEAR, FEAR while going on with the rest of his life.

have you noticed how callously similar his statement that a PRESIDENT MUST GO ON WITH HIS LIFE, i.e., biking, hiking, clearing brush ...whatever etc, WHILE HIS SBUJECTS GIVE THEIR BLOOD FOR BUSH'S OIL OCCUPAITON OF IRAQ, is so similarly narcissistic in nature to his mother's "Why should I worry my pretty little mind ... etc?"

there is only one message for the bushes and it is this:

CINDY SHEEHAN, LECH WALESA, CINDY SHEEHAN, LECH WALESA... and the people's voice will be heard--and the people will rise--and the dictators will be swallowed away by the rising powerful wave of the people's voice!

[Podface]

35. I'm no expert but...

How do bomb sniffing dogs find a fake bomb that doesn't have contain explosives?

Maybe that was incorrect information but that's how it was initially reported.

[wli]

48. probably attracted by the ham sandwich in the lunchbox n/t

[formercia]

36. Fake bomb for fake news

so where was Faux News on this one?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

37. Fox Breaking: Bugging device found in Karl Rove's Office...

...planted by Karl Rove.

:grr:

THANK YOU, President Bush, for keeping us SAFE from the fake bomb found in the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.

:grouphug:

[cal04]

40. Things are getting back to normal at the Mayflower Hotel

Things are getting back to normal at the Mayflower Hotel after a suspicious package was discovered in the basement of the facility.

Bomb technicians and an FBI terrorism task force were called in around 1:30 p-m after investigators declared what they described as a "credible threat." About 350 guests and staffers were evacuated.


A small explosive charge was used to blow open the package, which D-C Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department spokesman Alan Etter says was made to look like a real bomb.

Although it turned out to be a hoax, bomb technicians and police officers accompanied by bomb sniffing dogs were checking the entire building before allowing people back inside.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081400549.html

[TechBear_Seattle]

43. Twenty bucks says...

... the "threat" of a bomb came either from someone within the Administration or from someone on the Administration's payroll. This was to give the "liberal media" some fodder other than Cindy Sheehan, the growing national discontent against the pointless war in Iraq and Bush's ever falling ratings. If I'm right, I have an additional $20 that says the trail leads to Karl Rove.

[wli]

49. no bet; it's guaranteed n/t

[NCPatriot]

53. I'll see your $20 - Raise an additional $20

That Rummy says there is irrefutable evidence it came from within Iran!

[alarcojon]

52. It's going to take a lot more that this

to call attention away from Cindy Sheehan. Unfortunately for the human race, Bushco is fully capable of a lot more.

[blogslut]

55. CNN: The 'suspicious package' that wasn't /"Bomb was SS Training Tool"

link:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/14/hotel.package/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service agent at a Washington hotel was the "suspicious package" that prompted a building evacuation Sunday afternoon, law enforcement sources said.

The FBI and Secret Service sent teams of investigators to the Mayflower Hotel, a few blocks from the White House, after the package was found.

It was a hotel employee who discovered it, said Debbie Weierman, an FBI spokeswoman.

< snip >

[truthisfreedom]

56. explosive levels of confidence they inspire, huh?

buffoons. what an embarrassment to America.

[meganmonkey]

57. You've got to be kidding me

:wtf:

If this is just a bad cover story for some bizarre event, well, it's just pathetic.

If they DID 'mistakenly' leave it there, that's even worse! What the fuck - this is the freaking secret service. Why are they training in a hotel basement, and WHY ARE THEY FORGETTING THEIR FAKE BOMBS??

This makes NO SENSE TO ME! :crazy:

[MADem]

62. They were probably training there because VIPS stay there

...and ya gotta take care of the "important folk" before you take care of the peons.

But it does seem as though they take their training rather cavalierly--maybe they need to get themselves a little before-and-after checklist that includes the notation: Don't forget to retrieve all training materials, to include bomb sniffing dogs, decontamination equipment, sensors, geiger counters, surveillance equipment and FAKE BOMBS!!!

Dunces, a confederacy of DUNCES!

[Malikshah]

58. MMghhshrrhhrhr....aaahhhh. It took a while to get the duct tape off

of the windows and to finish cavity searching the cat and small woodland creatures in the backyard.

Too bad it was all futile.

;)

[alarcojon]

60. Unbelievable

What a bunch of clowns. The whole lot of them.

[Hapameli]

59. Evacuation YESTERDAY at LAX, too! False alarm as well.

Saw it on my local Fox affiliate, who covered our rally in support of Cindy Sheehan, very well I might add.

[WilliamPitt]

64. I like that place

[MetaTrope]

65. Breaking...hotel surveillance camera image released