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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Wed May 16, 2012, 10:47 PM May 2012

FBI: Hundreds of letters with white power likely the work of someone in Texas

FBI: Hundreds of letters with white power likely the work of someone in Texas; $150,000 reward

The FBI says it suspects the mailings of hundreds of envelopes containing white powder over the last four years are the work of someone in Texas.

The FBI released a statement Wednesday saying the letters contain postmarks from North Texas and similar references to subjects such as al-Qaida and Nazis. A $150,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction in the case.

More than 380 threatening letters in envelopes containing white powder have shown up across the U.S. and overseas since 2008. Last week, more than 20 were mailed to daycare centers, elementary schools and an aerospace-related business in Texas and other states.

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The letters also have been sent to government offices, churches, schools, restaurants and U.S. embassies overseas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-hundreds-of-letters-with-white-power-likely-the-work-of-someone-in-texas-150000-reward/2012/05/16/gIQAnT6vUU_story.html
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FBI: Hundreds of letters with white power likely the work of someone in Texas (Original Post) cal04 May 2012 OP
Maybe the only job bushitler could do is stuff envelopes and sprinkle them with talc, but 380, nagh lonestarnot May 2012 #1
Freudian Headline O' The Decade!!! KamaAina May 2012 #2
where's tom delay? spanone May 2012 #3
Sure Bush didn't give the wrong address to his coke dealer? Taverner May 2012 #4
380 letters -- I hope they weren't handwritten. JDPriestly May 2012 #5
 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
1. Maybe the only job bushitler could do is stuff envelopes and sprinkle them with talc, but 380, nagh
Wed May 16, 2012, 11:00 PM
May 2012

with the attention span of a gnat, that would be too many.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Freudian Headline O' The Decade!!!
Wed May 16, 2012, 11:07 PM
May 2012

"White power", indeed. Wouldn't it be something if the perp actually did turn out to be a white supremacist?

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. 380 letters -- I hope they weren't handwritten.
Thu May 17, 2012, 02:57 AM
May 2012

Can you imagine. That's a whole novel -- 380 pages.

Doesn't this person have better things to do with his life?

There's hiking, listening to music, spending time with friends, knitting, etc., gardening, working at a job, watching TV or people, the internet, reading, making stuff -- furniture, fixing up old cars, body-building, what do I know????

Surely this person has some interests other than writing letters. There are millions of things more interesting than writing threatening letters.

What a crackpot.

It should be easy to find this person. By this time, he should have shown up in a doctor's office with writer's cramp.

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