White people beware:

1. (FOUO) TEXAS: Bomb Threat, Alleged Explosives Transported on an AFB. Background: According to Texas State Operations Center (SOC) reporting, on 10 January, in Del Rio, Laughlin AFB received a bomb threat. Security Dogs alerted to a truck entering the base; base security isolated and searched the truck with negative results. Reportedly, the truck and the driver, who was possibly of Middle Eastern descent, were subsequently released after the truck was cleared. Update: According to an 11 January Phone conversation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in Del Rio, the truck driver in this incident was not of Middle Eastern descent. Reportedly, the truck driver was a white male U.S. citizen who is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran with psychological problems. He was taken to a local hospital for evaluation and subsequently released. The man returned to the base security gate where authorities arrested him as a public nuisance. The local sheriff’s department and the federal authorities were notified. (Phone call Del Rio USAO, 11 Jan 05; HSOC 0109-05)