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Article: Bomb hoax at JW Marriot following terrorist attacks
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- September 14, 2001
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New Straits Times
09-14-2001
Bomb hoax at JW Marriot following terrorist attacks
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: National
Memo: U.S. attacks.
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - There was a bomb hoax at the JW Marriott Hotel today, presumably by a prankster taking advantage of the terrorist attacks in the United States.
City police chief Deputy Commissioner Datuk Meor Che Hussein Mahayuddin said the hotel telephone operator received a call at 3.05pm from a man who said there was a bomb in the hotel's basement carpark.
"A bomb disposal squad was dispatched to the scene and they combed the area tooth and nail for two hours without finding any bomb," he said today at the Police Training Centre in ...