Officials investigating suspicious powder at postal facility

Newsday/AP ^ | February 3, 2004 | NA

[Dog]

Officials investigating suspicious powder at postal facility

WALLINGFORD, Conn. -- State environmental officials and federal agents are investigating the discovery of unidentified white powder at a Wallingford postal distribution center.

February 3, 2004, 5:57 AM EST

[Dog]

Hmmmmmm.

[Indie]

Just ze beginning of a trend, perhaps?

[Dog]

Can you clean this up...the auto excerpt didn't work...or I messed it up.

[Dog]

Thanks AM..

[OXENinFLA]

Not good.

[Catspaw]

Dog, I found this at the Tampa Trib's breaking news section. Didn't an elderly woman from Connecticut die from anthrax in 2001?

Officials Investigating Suspicious Powder at Connecticut Postal Facility
The Associated Press
Published: Feb 3, 2004

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (AP) - State environmental officials and federal agents were investigating the discovery of an unidentified white powder at a postal distribution center.

Department of Environmental Protection officials say an employee found the powder in an envelope Tuesday morning. The facility remains open, and officials say they've isolated the area where the powder was discovered.

The Wallingford facility is the same postal center at which investigators found anthrax spores in 2001. The substance found Tuesday has been taken for testing, DEP officials said.

The discovery of the powder comes a day after a suspicious white power that tested positive for ricin was found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office.

The powder was apparently delivered to the Republican senator's office through the mail system. More definitive tests were expected later Tuesday.

AP-ES-02-03-04 0614EST

[Indie]

Does all this mean that the odds on EOM's posts being real [countdown clock, jihad posts, et al] just went up?

[leadpenny]

Pete Williams on Imus:

It sounds like Capitol Hill is in Lock Down. Only essential personnel. (No tourist, etc.)

[Dog]

What else did he say?

[leadpenny]

I was only half listening to the rest of it. The way they keep closing off streets on the Hill, I can see a day when you will have to go through security to even get in the zone. Every time I go downtown it seems there are more guard shacks and Jersey barriers.

[Dog]

I can understand them closing buildings....but why are they closing down streets?

[leadpenny]

I jumped on your thread thinking it had to do with the substance they had found in the Majority Leaders's office. Gonna get some coffee.

[leadpenny]

It appears to me to be an ongoing thing.

[Catspaw]

Fox News' Kelly Wright is now reporting that the envelope with the white powder found in Connecticut was addressed to the Republican National Committee.

[Dog]

A big Hmmmmmmmm.

[mewzilla]

So, it's not just traces, they've found another envelope?

[Dog]

See Catspaws post 14..

[mware]

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.

[17th Miss Regt]

Hillary?

[mware]

Hey Jim send me your address please I want to mail your golf shirt and book. Only reason I wouldn't would be because of iced up roads in the afternoon.