mo4ch:>US Embassy employee brings MORTAR SHELL to Moscow’s main airport | Mo4ch News

Security at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow was stunned to discover a mortar shell in the luggage of a US Embassy employee heading to London. The Foreign Ministry said the incident was a “provocation” and demanded explanations.The eyebrow-raising discovery of “an object resembling a mortar shell with a fuse” was made on Saturday morning and a bomb squad was immediatly even called in.The specialists could breath a sigh of relief, however, as it emerged that the shell had no explosive compound inside. Only small traces of a blasting agent remained, officials confirmed.Making the situation even more bizarre, the person who tried to smuggle the forbidden cargo has been identified as an employee of the US Embassy in Moscow, who was traveling to New York.Trying to cool things down, the US citizen explained that he bought an empty mortar shell without an explosive compound for his "private collection,” according to the Russian side. His immediate problems with law enforcement apparently …