Posted on 03/07/2008 3:57:24 AM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
AP 'We Did It' letters eyed in NY bombing
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill offices received letters Thursday containing a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and including the claim "We Did It." ADVERTISEMENT
The manila envelopes contained a photo of a man standing in front of the recruiting station before it was bombed. The photo was the kind commonly sent as a holiday greeting card, according to a Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is under investigation.
The message on the card: "Happy New Year, We Did It."
The envelope also contained a packet of approximately 10 sheets of paper that seemed to be a political manifesto railing against the Iraq war and a booklet. The aide didn't know what the booklet was. A second aide, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said similar letters arrived in as many as 10 offices.
Capitol Police, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service were investigating. In an e-mail to lawmakers, Capitol Police said the envelopes went through the standard security process. That process, which involves radiating incoming mail, can easily take a week or more, making it likely the letters were mailed well ahead of the bombing.
The small bomb caused minor damage to the New York military recruiting station before dawn Thursday and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video pedaling away.
Each envelope was stamped with two $1 stamps and contained a white label with a return address, which the police did not identify in the e-mail. Police said the letters were safe and did not contain threats to lawmakers.
The man in the photo was thin, white with graying hair, wearing a striped flannel shirt and jeans, the Democratic aide said. A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing, confirmed some of the contents of the letters as described by the aide.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of an e-mail sent from the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to other lawmakers Thursday that reads:
"A few offices on the House side have received a letter today addressed to 'Members of Congress' with a picture of a man standing in front of the Times Square recruiting station that was bombed in New York today with the statement 'We did it.' He is standing in front of it with his arms spread out and he's attached his political manifesto."
The blast left a gaping hole in the front window and shattered a glass door, twisting and blackening its metal frame. No one was hurt, but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the device, though unsophisticated, could have caused "injury and even death."
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Associated Press writers Erica Werner and Devlin Barrett contributed to this report.
Re your statement in your Homepage about the Marines not having a football team.
As a matter of fact, the Marines used to be big in football. My best friend’s older Brother played for the reknowned San Diego Marines in the early 60’s prior to Vietnam.
LearnsFromMistakes, You might want to confirm that was a joke...or, perhaps, have that comment removed. No sense in spreading misinformation.
“Officials: Letters not linked to NY bomb”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/times_square_blast_letters;_ylt=AnO6Kr0Hwfgl69JhqvIXy8ys0NUE
Obombies are really the most intolerant of all the ideological idiots out there.
"It was just an incredibly unbelievable coincidence," said one of the law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation in New York is continuing.
Unbelievable? Quite.
Police said the letters were safe and did not contain threats to lawmakers.
So as long as there was no threat to "lawmakers", that it's ok then? Or somehow a "lesser" crime? :-/
Fox & FRiends mentioned that they now believe the letters did NOT go through the US postal service, but directly into the Congressional mail.
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The same group that went through my mind when I learned that dems were the recipients.
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill were startled to receive the letters in their office mail Thursday afternoon, just hours after the early morning New York bombing, and turned them over to the Capitol Police.
One law enforcer said the "We did it" referred to the Democratic wins. The Democrats gained control of Congress in 2006.
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I do not believe in "incredibly unbelievable coincidence"! Nor do I believe that 100 identical letters can get to 100 congressional offices on the same day, from 3000 miles away if they went through all the supposed security..
“I don’t like the way the investigation is going. Already saying the letters to the Dems had nothing to do with it.
Sure is strange, way too many dots already connected.”
Sounds like the crack FBI investigators from the anthrax case were assigned to this one. Guess we can all rest easy knowing the keystone cops are on the case. Clue to the FBI- look at the left-wing freaks...
“Happy New Year. We did it.”
Sounds like the homegrown idiot congratulating Congress on loosening up security measures.
Wow. What an evil bunch of moonbats!
Is this the same SDS as was active during the Vietnam war?
My first thought exactly!
I don’t think so. This group calls itself the “Student Democratic Society”, whereas the old SDS was, as I recall, “Students for a Democratic Society”.
LOL.
We should ask the USPS if the Congressional Post Office checks outgoing mail too.
The name ‘David Karn’ was reported as the person who signed the letter.
Some interesting finds on a ‘David Karn’ (although we obviously have no way of knowing if this is the same person)
Someone at Huffington Post is looking at a ‘David Karn’ who donated to the republican party...LOL
Anyway..here it is for what it is worth:
http://libertopia.webdever.net/
http://www.aboutus.org/WebDever.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/webdever.net
Since the letters were mailed so far in advance, it seems to me there’s a bit more planning involved than a simple junior high schooler would be capable.
IMO, the investigation should be focusing on that fact; it should help narrow the list of suspects. I didn’t know that mail would take that long to get to the congressional offices. Is that common knowledge? Am I just slow in that regard? I can’t see your usual peacenick hippie type knowing that, or planning that carefully.
Pay attention to the second link..it was cached this morning. He has already removed his name from his article on his updated page. Not sure why he would do this, but it was on his page this morning and now it is not.
Going to post the page here, so there is a record:
Archive for the ‘Library’ Category
“Why I am an Anarchist, by Benjamin Tucker”
By: David Karn, on 11:00 am
Why am I an Anarchist? That is the question which the editor of the Twentieth Century has requested me to answer for his readers. I comply; but, to be frank, I find it a difficult task. If the editor or one of his contributors had only suggested a reason why I should be anything other than an Anarchist, I am sure I should have no difficulty in disputing the argument. And does not this very fact, after all, furnish in itself the best of all reasons why I should be an Anarchist – namely, the impossibility of discovering any good reason for being anything else? To show the invalidity of the claims of State Socialism, Nationalism, Communism, Single-taxism, the prevailing capitalism, and all the numerous forms of Archism existing or proposed, is at the same blow to show the validity of the claims of Anarchism. Archism once denied, only Anarchism can be affirmed. That is a matter of logic.
more…
Also from his site:
When you salute the flag you stand in blood. When you praise the military, you stand in blood. When you praise a politician, when you join a political party: you stand in blood, you wade in blood. When you say the government should do this or the government should do that: you stand in rising blood, and it is almost covering our mouths by now.
link
The person of interest has been interviewed. Not related to the bomb incident.
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