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bREAKING NEWS_Apparent major terrorist attack thwarted at big US base in Florida
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Apparent major terrorist attack thwarted at big US base in Florida
Two heavily-armed individuals, a man and a woman, were stopped at the Bayshore Gate of MacDill Air Force Base outside Tampa, Florida early Tuesday, June 15. When searched by a robot, their sports utility vehicle was found packed with military-style uniforms, rifle-type weapons and ammo - but no explosives. Air Force spokeswoman, Elizabeth Gosselin said the pair was in custody and being questioned in what was described as an "on-base incident" indicating an attempted terrorist attack - without further details.
The US Central Command headed by Gen. David Petraeus runs the Afghanistan and Iraq war from this base, as well as well as Special Operations Command for the Middle East.
debkafile's counter-terror sources add: Had the couple gained entry to MacDill base,donned the uniforms and used the rifles they brought with them, they could potentially have carried out the biggest attack ever on a US military facility inside America.
Their names or information suggesting their identity have not been released as yet. The incident recalls the deadly attack in Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, in which a US army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik "AbdulWali" Hassan murdered 13 US servicemen in the name of jihad.
So stringent are security precautions at MacDill Air Force Base that a man involved in a violent altercation on May 19 was shot dead when he resisted arrest and tried to escape on a motor bike after being challenged to surrender. No more information about this incident was released excepting that it was not terror-related.
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