{"id":24208,"date":"2011-06-17T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24208"},"modified":"2011-06-17T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:55:38","slug":"suspicious-vehicle-near-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24208","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious vehicle near Pentagon (Updated with suspect&#8217;s ID)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATED at 10:55 am:<\/strong> His name is Yonathan Melaku, a Muslim, and he&#8217;s a Marine Corp reservist according to Bill Hemmer on Fox News channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/06\/17\/dc.security.situation\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\">It is being reported<\/a> that one person has been arrested and two are being investigated in regards to a suspicious vehicle and perhaps some bookbags near the Pentagon; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Route 27 between Arlington Cemetery and the Pentagon and other roads have been closed as police investigate a vehicle found in the bushes on the side of the road, a Pentagon official said. The road closure will affect commuters on their way to the Pentagon, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>A suspicious person found at Arlington Cemetery tipped off police to the vehicle, the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of what I wrote above comes from a live Fox News broadcast. Steve Doocey also reports that the vehicle contained al Qaeda literature and spent 9mm shell casings. He also reports that authorities are preparing to do a &#8220;controlled demolition&#8221; of the vehicle. That ought to wake up DC.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Griffin reports that police found 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/06\/17\/suspicious-vehicle-shuts-down-several-major-roads-near-pentagon\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man arrested is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came to the country from Ethiopia, a source told MyFoxDC.com.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"video\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" data=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=8705\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=8705\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"&#038;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&#038;embed=true&#038;adSizeArray=300x240,,&#038;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewttg%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3Dsuspicious%2Dvehicle%2Dshuts%2Droads%2Dnear%2Dpentagon%2D061711%3Bloc%3Dsite%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D996787719130337200%3Frand%3D0%2E4859739927722422&#038;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxdc%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D135249182&#038;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxdc%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2FPentagonSuspiciousPRESSER%5FMyFoxDC%2DBug16x9%5F1%5Ftmb0000%5F20110617090755%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&#038;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxdc%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fsuspicious%2Dvehicle%2Dshuts%2Droads%2Dnear%2Dpentagon%2D061711&#038;category=&#038;title=PentagonSuspiciousPRESSER%2Emov&#038;oacct=foximfoximwttg,foximglobal&#038;ovns=foxinteractivemedia&#038;headline=Man%20Suspected%20of%20Carrying%20Ammonium%20Nitrate%20in%20Backpack%20Taken%20into%20Custody%20near%20Pentagon\" name=\"FlashVars\"\/><param value=\"all\" name=\"allowNetworking\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"width:500px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/suspicious-vehicle-shuts-roads-near-pentagon-061711\">Man Suspected of Carrying Ammonium Nitrate in Backpack Taken into Custody near Pentagon: MyFoxDC.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Police Department encountered this guy last night and he fled from them and when captured he wasn&#8217;t very forthcoming with answers from the police. The FBI reports that inside the backpack found on this suspect was a 5-pound sack of something labeled as ammonium nitrate but they are now calling the substance &#8220;inert&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED at 10:55 am: His name is Yonathan Melaku, a Muslim, and he&#8217;s a Marine Corp &hellip; <a title=\"Suspicious vehicle near Pentagon (Updated with suspect&#8217;s ID)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24208\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspicious vehicle near Pentagon (Updated with suspect&#8217;s ID)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}