© Wikimedia CommonsCharles De Gaulle airport.
Employees of the American courier service at Charles de Gaulle airport were shocked to find a pressure cooker filled with nuts and bolts inside a package in transit from the US to Tunisia.
On further inspection they discovered a container of other similar devices, along with what appeared to be detonators, said Frederic Petit, who represents the company's employees for the CGT union.
The staff alerted authorities of "imminent danger," and officials arrived to test the device using sniffer dogs and X-ray machines.
A security source at the airport said the devices were actually decoys bound for the US embassy in Tunisia that were being used for a training exercise.
"This type of delivery is not common, but sometimes takes place," the source told AFP. "This is just the first time that a package has been opened."
But Petit slammed the exercise as "irresponsible," given the heightened security concerns since the Paris attacks in November, when jihadists killed 130 people.
"Nobody was aware of this cargo," he said, adding that FedEx employees want to see such parcels banned from transit through France.
Source: Agence France-Presse
OK. I'm sure they are telling the truth.
But who were they training?
Perhaps they were going to train their pet ISIS thugs on how to set off pressure cooker bombs in Paris or Brussels?
Why would they need live detonators and actual nuts and bolts for a "training exercise"?
So that the forensic teams in Paris could identify the pressure cookers and nuts and bolts as originating in America?
This makes the Boston Marathon bombing more suspicious than ever!
Was THAT one a "training exercise" too??
Bet you don't hear a whisper about this event in the US media.
- LG