I don't buy either of those scenarios. It was said that they contained Semtex.
http://boingboing.net/2008/08/07/swat-team-raids-mayo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid
Here’s a case where someone was supposed to intercept the delivery, to a “safe” recipient. Things didn’t work out that way. The mayor was put on the address label probably because he’d be considered ‘safe”.
The radical Rabbi was a joke.