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News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government

News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government
17 Apr 2013
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Breaking: Series of explosions in West, Texas --As many as 10 buildings are on fire 17 Apr 2013 (West) News Channel 25 has learned of a series of explosions in West, north of Waco. Witnesses believe a fertilizer plant on the 1400 block of Jerry Mashek Dr. exploded and cause multiple fires. An unconfirmed report of as many as 10 buildings are on fire including the West Middle School. There are injuries and possible entrapments of people. A triage area has been set up to treat injured. One woman called News Channel 25 as she was on the interstate going through West, and the explosion blew her car from one lane into the next.
 
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion, Numerous Injuries Reported 17 Apr 2013 (Waco) Emergency crews from throughout Central Texas responded Wednesday night after a major explosion at a burning fertilizer plant in West north of Waco. West firefighters were dispatched to the plant earlier in the evening after an earlier fire rekindled. The explosion was reported at around 7:50 p.m. in a frantic radio call from the scene of the fire at West Fertilizer at 1471 Jerry Mashek Dr. just off Interstate 35. Numerous injuries were reported and multiple ambulances were requested. Several buildings were reported destroyed and a nearby nursing home was damaged. 
 
Possible Boston bombing suspects 17 Apr 2013 (Photos)
 
Arrest Is Made Over Letters Believed to Carry Poison 17 Apr 2013 Federal agents arrested a man on Wednesday who is suspected of sending letters believed contaminated by the poison, ricin, to President Obama and a Republican senator. The F.B.I. identified the suspect as Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss. The arrest, days after the letters were intercepted in mail-sorting facilities for the White House and the Capitol, was based on information collected "very early on" about who had sent the letters, an official said. Earlier in the day, with reports of other suspicious letters and packages turning up in Senate offices, the Capitol Police evacuated parts of the Hart and Russell Senate Office Buildings, shouting to clear the hallways and leaving staff members to peer nervously out their windows.
 
U.S. takes step toward possible military intervention in Syria 17 Apr 2013 The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure [alleged] chemical weapons arsenals or to prevent the 2-year-old civil war from spilling into neighboring nations. Troops from the 1st Armored Division will establish a small headquarters near Jordan's border with Syria to help deliver humanitarian supplies for a growing flood of refugees and, to plan for possible military operations, including a rapid buildup of American forces if the White House decides intervention is necessary, senior U.S. officials said.
 

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