CEREDO, West Virginia  — A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated Thursday after a female passenger's water bottle twice tested positive for explosives, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman said.

"The bomb squad is on site and the woman is being interviewed by the FBI," Amy von Walter said.

Security checkpoint screeners got a positive test on a machine that uses swabs to find traces of explosives, von Walter said. A bomb-sniffing dog also reacted to the water bottle.

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BREAKING: West Virginia Airport Evacuated Due to 'Suspicious Liquid'
Mary Katharine Ham

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McKinley said the luggage belonged to a female passenger who was traveling on a US Airways flight departing at 9:17 a.m. for Charlotte, N.C.

In response to reporters’ questions, McKinley confirmed the woman was of Middle Eastern descent. She said the woman was not treated any differently because of her nationality.

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The WV reporter says TSA employees at the airport told him there was a "strong possibility" there's explosive material involved, but the TSA proper has not confirmed that. The passenger in question is a 28-year-old woman of Pakistani descent who lives in West Virginia, according to CNN.

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Ace has more here.

Allah's on it here.

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Light dawns on Mt. Bill: Any bets she wasn't just trying to take Mama some 'shine?

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Dan Riehl: "What the hell is going on with this stuff?"

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Comments

Posted by: The Gray Dog

Tri-State Airport is almost literally in my mother's back yard. Just a couple of large hills separates the two locations. That area first obtained national prominence when the entire Marshall Univeristy Football Team crashed into thos hills while on approach to Tri-State in the late fall of 1970. I was in tech school at Sheppard AFB at the time, but felt the shock and sadness shared with those in my hometown. Then this past April, while I was back home visiting my mother on her birthday, the entire area was agog with star fever. A movie was being filmed in Huntington about that football team and the fateful crash. You couldn't move in town without people telling you that they saw Mathew McConnaughey. What a great moment for Huntington. But this latest news ought to shock the entire country. This isn't New York, LA or Chicago. This is little Huntington WV. This is not the kind of news I want to hear from my childhood home.

Posted by: The Gray Dog | Aug 17, 2006 5:11:28 PM

Posted by: Zero Ponsdorf

About 200 or so miles from here, BTW. Pittsburgh is closer for reference. And I've been without power until a few minutes ago.

Missed all the fun.

Posted by: Zero Ponsdorf | Aug 17, 2006 6:20:50 PM