Perry Letter Bomb?
Earlier this afternoon, the AP reported that Governor Perry was one of several governors this week to receive some sort of incendiary letter bomb:
No quite sure how exactly a letter can be rigged to ignite, or what it would accomplish. And the selection of governors seems odd, as do the postmarks. Weird.Gov. Rick Perry's office received a letter rigged to ignite when opened, the sixth such letter sent to governors this week.
The office's mail screeners identified the booby-trapped letter Thursday before it was opened, spokesman Robert Black said Friday.
"It is now in the hands of the (Department of Public Safety) and an investigation has begun," Black said. He would not specify how mail screeners determined that matches were rigged to ignite.
Governors in Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Washington and Utah also received rigged letters. A suspicious letter sent to the Massachusetts governor also was being investigated Friday. There were no reports of injuries, although the letter prompted the evacuation of a part of the state Capitol in Montana.
Black and DPS officials would not say where the letter was postmarked, but the others were postmarked from the Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev.
Glen Whorton, assistant director for the Nevada Corrections Department, said two inmates whose names are on the envelopes were being questioned at the prison in eastern Nevada, and the FBI is involved.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/10/04 18:13 | Texas | Technorati
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