Anthrax Threats Mass Mailed to Abortion Clinics

Los Angeles Times ^

[Asmodeus]

November 9, 2001 Anthrax Threats Mass Mailed to Abortion Clinics By MEGAN GARVEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER Security: More than 200 facilities receive FedEx packages, while more are intercepted en route to West Coast.

WASHINGTON -- FedEx packages containing a white powder and the threat: "This contains anthrax. You're going to die," arrived Thursday morning at more than 200 abortion clinics in the Midwest and along the East Coast.

[newzjunkey]

The directors of Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority on Thursday asked for a meeting with Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Director Thomas J. Ridge.

I see no reason needed for a meeting.

[fod]

Charming.

gotta wonder about these god squads

which come less than a month after more than 250 similar letters were sent to abortion clinics through the U.S postal system.

I missed this one. Was it publicized at all?

[fod]

hmmm, should the "army of god" fall under auspices of the new "patriot act" as a terrorist organization?

[Dane]

Yep news comes out that the anthrax mailings may come from a Ted Kaczynski(i.e leftist, pro-abortion, anti-human) wannabe, and all of the sudden packages from FedEx(i.e overnight deliveries) show up at abortion clinics.

Planned Parenthood probably sent them out themselves to muddy the waters, IMHO.

[Asmodeus]

Please delete. Already posted here but did not come up in Search prior to posting.

[wideawake]

(1) If you honestly believe that these packages were sent by a Christian group, you're way too gullible. PP couldn't buy this kind of publicity.

(2) The first mailing was news coast-to-coast. It was featured on my local news three times in one week.

[EllaMinnow]

Desperate for attention, sympathy, and more federal funding (for security!)...I better shut up before I become a suspect.

[evilsmoker]

They don't really want a meeting, they just want a reason to bitch when Ashcroft says no. But I don't think their little plan will work. I think most Americans realized the AG is just a little busy right now.

[harpseal]

Whoever sent these packages via Fed Ex had to pay Fed Ex last I checked they did not deliver packages for free. For an underground group to have accounts suitable for mailing all these packages via Federal Express is beyond credulity. If this is unsolved within hours then one must presume that the group behind this is also the package recipients.

In any case anyone committing an anthrax hoax should be spending the next twenty years as the guest of the government.

My guess is that it is is PP itself doing the mailings and when someone gets caught they will argue that it was necessary to bring attention and security.

Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - yorktown

[fod]

(1) If you honestly believe that these packages were sent by a Christian group, you're way too gullible. PP couldn't buy this kind of publicity.

I never said anything of the sort, please don't put words in my mouth.

I like to think I have a good grasp of Christianity, and the "army of god" don't qualify IMO, .

(2) The first mailing was news coast-to-coast. It was featured on my local news three times in one week.

Crazy, can't believe I missed it, must have coincided with my last trip out of country...

[Blackyce]

"Anthrax Threats Mass Mailed to Abortion Clinics" Kind of redundant aint it... You know the really ironic thing is, less people probably died today because of Anthrax.

[TommyDale]

Watch for this theory to come out shortly by the FBI: In an effort to "save face", they will claim ERIC RUDOLPH did it. And the reason the writing slants downhill is because he is still hiding on the side of a mountain in North Carolina.

[toenail]

Frank Mendiola

[LoneGOPinCT]

You know the really ironic thing is, less people probably died today because of Anthrax.

Point well taken.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is the "Army of God" an underground organization with no known members, address, or web site? I assume so, otherwise it would be insane for them to openly take responsibility for illegal acts. But I still think it needs to be proven that they are in fact responsible; I would not put at past PP to send these threats to themselves.

[ravinson]

The Army of God has a website and a mailing address in care of "Rev. Donald Spitz" in Chesapeake, VA. All of the anti-abortion zealots who assert that "abortion is murder" give aid and comfort to abortion clinic attackers.

[ikanakattara]

Notice that no anthrax has ever been found in any of these abortion clinic threat letters or packages. Meanwhile, people have died of anthrax from letters that seem to have been sent from Islamofascist strongholds like Trenton, NJ.

[Steve_Seattle]

If the "Army of God" has a website and known members, would they be so stupid as to sign the name of their organization to terrorist letters? If they did so and the FBI still can't find evidence to arrest them, the FBI is beyond hope. But if there is no evidence linking the "Army of God" to those letters, then PP is itself a suspect and should have left a trail. What is going on with the FBI?

[lowbridge]

How does one spell "Reichstag"?