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Planned parenthood lies again, my title, WND's is: Abortion Rights Group Gets Suspicious Letters
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Posted on 10/16/2001 7:50:26 AM PDT by Alas

Abortion Rights Group Gets Suspicious Letters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. abortion rights group said on Monday that 90 of its clinics and offices in at least 13 states had received envelopes containing threatening letters and an unidentified powdery substance.

Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) Federation of America said some of the letters included messages from a group called the Army of God, a militant anti-abortion group that has advocated violence against medical personnel who perform abortions.

A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, who asked not to be quoted by name, said the letters were delivered to the organization's national offices and numerous local offices and medical facilities those offices operate. Abortions are performed at many of those facilities, as well as various health services for women.

The group said there have been no reported injuries and that law enforcement officials, including FBI (news - web sites) investigators, were conducting tests on the powdery substance to determine whether it was anthrax bacterium spores.

The news comes amid a nationwide scare involving the potentially deadly bacteria that could be used as a biological warfare agent. The spokesman for the group said initial field test on the substance in letters received at two locations had come back as negative for anthrax. One of the letters had been sent to offices in Greensboro, North Carolina. The spokesman said he did not know the location that received the second letter that tested negative.

Planned Parenthood said the envelopes were mailed to Planned Parenthood offices bearing postmarks from four cities: Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio; and Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. The spokesman said he believed all the letters were received on Monday. The offices and clinics receiving the letters are located in the East Coast and Midwest, the group said. ``All of them are in the hands of various authorities around the country. As far as we can tell, they all came today in regular mail,'' the spokesman said.

Planned Parenthood said the letters had pre-printed return addresses from the U.S. Marshall's Office and the Secret Service. Some had a message stating, ``Time Sensitive -- Urgent Security Notice -- Open Immediately.'' The spokesman said he could not provide a copy of any of the letters.

``With this many incidents and with the similarity of all of the letters, this is clearly a coordinated effort that was designed to terrorize our staff and affiliates. And people have the right to know about it,'' the spokesman said. In a statement, Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt said: ``It is perverse that these individuals here at home, who are themselves terrorists by virtue of their actions, would seek to capitalize on the events of the last days and weeks to further their own extremist agenda. But this will not deter us from our mission of providing essential health services to women in this nation.''

``Whether a hoax or not, these are intolerable acts of terror, and every effort must be made to apprehend the perpetrators,'' Feldt added. Eric Robert Rudolph, the man charged with carrying out the fatal bombings at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and at a Birmingham, Alabama in 1998, among other bombings, has been linked to the Army of God. A spokeswoman for the FBI national office had no comment on the investigation and referred calls to the agency's field office that handles Washington. Calls to that office were not returned.


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The spokesman said he could not provide a copy of any of the letters. Kind of hard to show hard copies of something imaginary isn't it. Why would anyone take the word of a baby killer about anything? these baby killers are so adept at lying, that like their president Bill Clinton, they seem incapable of telling the truth.

that 90 of its clinics and offices in at least 13 states had received envelopes containing threatening letters and an unidentified powdery substance.

But,

...could not provide a copy of any of the letters.

Right

1 posted on 10/16/2001 7:50:26 AM PDT by Alas
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To: Alas
The spokesman said he could not provide a copy of any of the letters. Kind of hard to show hard copies of something imaginary isn't it.

Perhaps the reason they cannot provide a copy of any of the letters was because the FBI was performing tests on them, as stated in the article?

2 posted on 10/16/2001 7:53:45 AM PDT by Cu Roi
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To: Alas
We are trying to track down terrorists who killed thousands and Planned Parenthood is playing PR games.
3 posted on 10/16/2001 7:53:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Alas
How do you KNOW this is "imaginary"? I can think of lots of reasons why they wouldn't have the letters. For example, the FBI has them.

This is entirely plausible. Terrorists--including this execrable "Army of God," akin to the Taliban in many ways--work exactly this way. Probably the powder is nothing, but it seems perfectly reasonable that fanatics jerk-offs like the "Army of God" would do something like this.

Just because they're "your fanatics" doesn't mean they're "okay."

4 posted on 10/16/2001 7:55:04 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Alas
Why make statement like that if you couldn't back it up. If you thought letters were covered in anthrax, would you wave them around in front of the press. I don't find it too hard to believe that some wackos on both the left and right are taking advantage of the current hysteria, to the detriment of their respective causes.
5 posted on 10/16/2001 7:57:07 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: Illbay
This is entirely plausible. Terrorists--including this execrable "Army of God," akin to the Taliban in many ways--work exactly this way. Probably the powder is nothing, but it seems perfectly reasonable that fanatics jerk-offs like the "Army of God" would do something like this.

Just because they're "your fanatics" doesn't mean they're "okay."

I agree wholeheartedly with your post. That said, it seems "convenient" that the offenders put their name right there in the enevelope.

6 posted on 10/16/2001 8:00:17 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Illbay; Cu Roi
Get real, would you turn anything over to the fbi without making copies?

To trust them with the only copy is dumber than claiming that it happened in the first place.

But, if you want to trust the fbi and take the word of the baby killers down at planned parenthood, well I guess that's your right.

7 posted on 10/16/2001 8:00:22 AM PDT by Alas
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To: AppyPappy

But, what is human life to them? When they kill millions a year, do you think for even a moment that lying to get a little free publicity for their slaughter houses would stop them?

What's 6,000 more or less dead to a group that kills millions of innocent babies each year, babies trapped in the womb.

8 posted on 10/16/2001 8:03:02 AM PDT by Alas
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Would I make copies of a letter I suspected had anthrax spores on it? That would be *madness.* You would contaminate the copy machine and risk spreading it to everyone else in the office. Those letters are probably long sealed in canisters awaiting testing at some FBI or other lab.

I hate abortion and think it should be illegal, but this is over the top. People who pull this kind of stunt, even if the letters contain no anthrax, are taking up the haz-mat teams' time and resources. They are just as much terrorists as Al-Qaeda, and should be treated as saboteurs in time of war.

9 posted on 10/16/2001 8:03:44 AM PDT by ikanakattara
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To: Alas
I hate to burst your bubble, but one of the offices in my town was hit, and it is only a few doors down from mine. Our mailman (who is also a patient of mine) is the one who delivered the letter. The powder probably isn't anthrax, but that doesn't make it any less serious.

For a hoax, these people are pretty shook up.

10 posted on 10/16/2001 8:03:45 AM PDT by TomB
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That means at least 90 PP people, and 90 post offices handled these letters. If they are suspected of being tainted with anthrax, then all persons in contact with these letters should be getting tested. Why is that fact left out of this article? Probably because it is pure BS.
11 posted on 10/16/2001 8:07:54 AM PDT by Critter
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Get real, would you turn anything over to the fbi without making copies?

To trust them with the only copy is dumber than claiming that it happened in the first place.

When you open a letter and it contains something suspicious, the best thing to do is put it down, get away, and call law enforcement, not go to the copy room before the police show up.

There is also the possibility that law enforcement does not want the details of the letter disclosed to the press because it might compromise an open investigation.

Look, if you think this is a hoax by Planned Parenthood, call the FBI for confirmation. If PPFA is behind this, I can't see them actually turning over the letters. But until you provide some actual evidence that they did this, you just sound like those crackpots in the Middle East who go on about how there were no Jews in the WTC on Sept. 11.

12 posted on 10/16/2001 8:08:34 AM PDT by Cu Roi
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To: Illbay
I agree with your post. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if:
A. A pro-abortion person mailed these letters, or
B. These were just amongst the tons of hate mail they probably get all the time, but the PP people freaked and called the FBI to have them tested.

Of course, there is no proof of this, I am just saying that I wouldn't put it past them.

13 posted on 10/16/2001 8:09:51 AM PDT by Rodney King
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To: Alas
Would the "Army of God" really put their name on the letters. This is sounding more and more like the PP people themselves did this. Very much like Hillary trying to use a national tragedy to make herself a victim of the VRWC.
14 posted on 10/16/2001 8:09:51 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: Alas
Here take this suspicious powder covered letter over to the Xerox and make a couple of copies.
Still can't figure out why they did not make copies ?
It seems quite obvious.....use your head.
15 posted on 10/16/2001 8:11:07 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS
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To: TomB
For a hoax, these people are pretty shook up.

I am not saying that it is or is not a hoax. If it is, however, not everybody would be in on it. It would be the work of a couple of hairy feminazis. I am not saying that this is what happened, but their is ample precedent to suggest that it is possible.

16 posted on 10/16/2001 8:15:22 AM PDT by Rodney King
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To: Illbay
This is entirely plausible. Terrorists--including this execrable "Army of God," akin to the Taliban in many ways--work exactly this way.

Er, how do you know that the "Army of God" is not al-Qaeda?

Perhaps it really was an anti-abortionist group. But it could just as easily be a terrorist group, masquerading as something else, in an attempt to set Americans against each other.

17 posted on 10/16/2001 8:16:32 AM PDT by okie01
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To: Alas
Get real, would you turn anything over to the fbi without making copies?

If there were a chance the suspect letters contained Anthrax I wouldn't touch them to make copies nor would I want them in my possesion. And if I were a reporter I damned sure wouldn't want to touch an original.

Your comments are very irrational!

18 posted on 10/16/2001 8:19:33 AM PDT by FreeLibertarian
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To: FITZ
Would the "Army of God" really put their name on the letters. This is sounding more and more like the PP people themselves did this.

The Lebanese "Army of God" (Hezbollah) claims responsibility for terrorist attacks all of the time...it's part of the mystique. Occam's Razor is useful here. There are religious fanatics with means, motive, and opportunity to carry out these attacks. Eric Rudolf, ``Atomic Dog'', and that scumbag that runs the Nuremburg Project all come to mind.

19 posted on 10/16/2001 8:22:20 AM PDT by Cu Roi
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To: Alas
Divide and conquer.
20 posted on 10/16/2001 8:24:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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