Showing posts with label mail bomb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mail bomb. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2018

Mail-Bomb Suspect Is in Custody

"...Authorities have a person in custody in connection with the 12 packages containing suspected explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats and outspoken critics of President Trump this week, according to a law-enforcement official. The arrest was made in Miami, the official said..."    


This Article is From: www.wsj.com
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Mail Bomb May Have Been Planted Instead Of Mailed

Tennessee man accused of killing in-laws with bomb

"...Investigators did not cite a motive for the bombing. They said they were running tests on the explosive materials, which appear to have been planted rather than delivered by a mail or package service...."    


This Article is From: www.latimes.com
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mail Bomb That Killed Retired Tennessee Lawyer and His Wife Came With Note

Police find note attached to mail bomb that killed Tennessee lawyer, wife

"...Investigators looking into the mail bomb that killed a retired lawyer at his Tennessee home Monday, and his wife days later, may have found a clue amid the debris: a note officials believe was attached to the bomb...."    Police find note attached to mail bomb that killed Tennessee lawyer, wife


This Article is From: www.foxnews.com
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Suspected Mail Bomb Kills Retired Tennessee Lawyer John Setzer

Retired lawyer killed after package sent to home explodes

"...On the Setzers' quiet rural street, neighbors were terrified about whether a bomb might arrive in their mailbox. Some told WZTV that officers went house-to-house Monday night to check mailboxes for devices...."    


This Article is From: www.cnn.com
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Another incendiary mail package ignites

Incendiary packages might be part of 'vendetta,' police say

"...An incendiary device ignited inside a package at a U.S. Postal Service processing center in Washington on Friday, a day after two similar parcels sent to Maryland officials ignited in mailrooms..."    postal news

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Mail Rooms Closed After Mail Bomb Incident in Maryland

Maryland closes government mailrooms statewide

"...two incendiary devices ignited in government offices in Annapolis and Hanover, from authorities likely mindful of past deadly letter bomb incidents as well as the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened 17...."    postal news

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Mailed bomb threat received at Upper West Side NY synagogue

"...A letter sent to an Upper West Side synagogue last week, threatening to blow it up on New Year’s Eve, arrived the same day a report was released by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services showing that hate crimes across New York jumped 14 percent in 2009...."    postal news

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Mail Bomb 17 minutes from going off

Al-Qaeda plane bomb 17 minutes from going off

"...Brice Hortefeux, the French interior minister told French TV tday: "One of the packages was defused only 17 minutes before the moment that it was set to explode.” ..."    postal news

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Parcel bomb plotters 'used dry run', say US officials

"...US intelligence officials tracked suspicious shipments in September that they now suspect were a dry run for last week's foiled parcel bomb plot, US media reports say...."    postal news

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

PETN Parcel Bombs

"...Multiple terrorist attacks, aimed at the United States were stopped by authorities on three continents. Seizure of two explosive packages, destination Chicago area synagogues..."    postal news



This Article is From: www.allvoices.com

More Info: What is PETN? According to Wikipedia, PETN is Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, penthrite (or — rarely and primarily in German — as nitropenta), is one of the most powerful high explosives known, with a relative effectiveness factor (R.E. factor) of 1.66. In addition to being used as a plastic explosive, it is also used as a vasodilator drug to treat certain heart conditions.


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Parcel bombs have hallmarks of al Qaeda: Napolitano

"...The parcel bombs sent from Yemen destined for the United States have hallmarks of the militant group al Qaeda or its affiliate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Saturday...."    postal news

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Amy Bishop at time of 1993 mail bomb investigation


"...The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe...."    



This Article is From: www.necn.com

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