Bomb parts found in bag at Orlando airport
4/01/2008.
Around noon time BDO identified a man acting strangely as he approached a
ticket counter at the airport's Terminal A. When the man's bag was
checked, it was found to have two galvanized pipes, end caps, two small
containers containing BBs, batteries, two containers with an unknown
liquid, laptop, and bomb making literature. The bomb squad was called
and passengers were evacuated from a section of the airport terminal
around the Air Jamaica, Air Canada and Air Frontier ticket counters.
The man is in FBI custody. The suspect is Kevin Brown,
a Jamaican national, approximately 32 years old. He was was scheduled to
fly on Air Jamaica Flight 80 to Montego Bay at 2:55 p.m.
See the
video of bomb squad agents searching man taken into custody (there
is 15 second commercial first).