Associated Press
Friday, August 18, 2006

SEATTLE, Aug. 17 -- Textiles were found inside two shipping containers that a bomb-sniffing dog indicated could contain explosives, officials said Thursday.

After the port terminal was evacuated Wednesday, a bomb squad used explosive charges to cut into the containers and then searched the contents at Terminal 18 south of downtown, a Port of Seattle spokesman said.

All they found were clothing, bedding and material intended to be used as rags, said Mike Milne, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman.

It was not immediately clear what caused the dog to flag the containers, which were from Pakistan. By early evening, the port had restored normal operations, port spokesman David Schaefer said.