SHARPEDGENEWS.COM, Kansas City – It was a day of drama in downtown Kansas City, in the heart of
Midwestern United States on Friday where an anti-bomb robot was deployed to take apart a vehicle suspected to be harboring explosives devices detected by a police canine.
A man who was said to be on a government terror watch-list allegedly walked into the Federal Building located on the 600 Block on the 12th and 13th streets announced himself a terrorist and prompted local and federal agents to order prompt evacuation.
The police dog, trained to detect explosives, was said to have “hit” on a suspicious device inside the car driven by the suspect. By 3pm local time, (1700 GMT), the Federal Bureau of Investigation had taken full charge of the situation.
The federal building that was evacuated on Friday bare close similarity in design and structure as the Murrah Federal Building in Okhlahoma City, Oklahoma, which was destroyed in an attack by the infamous Timothy McVeigh in the 1990s, who was later tried and executed by the federal government for the attack.
The Federal Aviation Authority immediately clamped a no-fly order over the vicinity on Friday.
It was later gathered that the suspected had contact the local newspaper, The Kansas City Star, to whom he allegedly identified himself as the well-known fan of the local football team as ‘The Helmet Man’. His real name was Waheed Moharan, born in Egypt in 1964, who immigrated to the United States in 1978.
Moharan was said to have arrived the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Kansas City where he had demanded to know why he was on a terror watch-list.
It was said that he was on witness protection program, having testified in the trial of the suspects in first World Trade Center bombing. The authorities baned him from local games so that he would not be murdered by hitmen.
“Everything’s okay, FBI wants me to drop the phone, I can’t tell you where I am now,” he said in his phonecall to the Kansas City Star on Friday, ending a day of intense drama on what was thought to be an actual case of terrorism.
As at press time, there entire saga appeared to be “a little misunderstanding “ between security agents and a rabid football fan who wanted to know why his pass to the game had been revoked.