Posted on 03/30/2011 6:22:44 AM PDT by library user
CHICAGO (CBS 2) The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America.
People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureaus Chicago office is leading the investigation.
FBI Special Agent Andre Zavala said, Yes, they alarmed a lot of people.
Attorney Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail.
The letter inside said, The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs throughout the U.S. in schools, stadiums, churches, stores, financial institutions and government buildings. It also said, This is a suicide mission for us.
The writer, who claims to be Osama Bin Laden, tells the reader the nukes are remotely controlled. It was clear the writer wanted to scare me, said Rizzo, Yes, it frightened me. Rizzo was one of eight people in the Chicago area to contact the FBI.
Agencies in Oregon, California, Texas and Florida also got the letter with the Chicago postmark.
There are items in the letter that lead us to believe it is a hoax, said Zavala. There are several demands documented that arent fully coherent.
He said much of whats in the message doesnt add up, but in a post 9-11 world, the FBI cant let it go even if it does appear to be a hoax.
The FBI investigates every element. We cant take that chance, said Zavala.
So, why the threats?
The writer alluded to how families in Afghanistan have to live. The FBI said it will find that writer, and when it does, he could face 5 to 10 years in prison for each letter mailed. Anyone whos received a similar letter should call the FBI.
160 nuclear bombs is ridiculous. 160 dirty bombs is NOT.
I give you the hysteria over Fukushima "fallout" levels on the west coast.
People hear "elevated levels" and go nuts.
Imagine CNN screaming "radioactive clouds detected in every major US city...."
We are not that far apart in opinion here.
Talk is cheap - that is why they are doing it.
I still think it is a baseless threat for the reasons you outline. However this thread was talking about fission devices, and I think those (even one) are really unlikely for AQ. Way beyond their capabilities. Dirty bombs are their speed, and having multiple dirty bombs is credible, and should be taken as a real possibility.
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Depends on how close it was to Taco Tuesdays or Cinco de Mayo, I guess...
Ahem...you meant 57 state capitols...
Have no fear . . . Napolitano is on the job!!!!
If you’re referring to Claire, she wrote that in the ‘90s... Just sayin’.
“Imagine CNN screaming “radioactive clouds detected in every major US city....””
Yep. It doesn’t have to be even remotely true or a hazard and the sheeple will go nuts falling all over themselves to “Bug Out!”
yeah, I can see 160 “dirty “bombs” - bombs or IEDs contaminated with radioactive medical, lab waste etc
We have a very large 5th column of muslims in our labs and hospitals
Still, the targeted address list of these “warnings” to select attorneys and investigators should lead investigators to a source. The use of the number “160” does seem rather specific
Dirty bombs In churches? Just in time for Easter?
That should make muslime extra speshul popular in America
Just turn it over to CSI and they’ll crack the case in an hour, including commercials,
while Holder and Napolitano are looking for the tea party white extremists who did this horrible act due to hate speech from FOX news, Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck (SARC)
I've heard that claim before. Do you think there is any truth to it? You can't just put a nuke in a farm shed in 1983 and leave it until 2011. Assuming they exist at all, either the Soviets recovered them, the US discovered them or someone is successfully mantaining them right under our noses. I just can't bring myself to believe in that last option, or the option I didn't even mention: that they were abandoned. They are just to valuable and politically dangerous to simply walk away from.
Or....radioactive clouds/material detected over Midwestern farmland and US city water supplies.
Maybe Holder doesn't want to offend minorities by subjecting them to an investigation.
Besides - “Never let a good crisis go to waste!”
(I hope America can survive till the end of the 0bama Regime)
Well said, And if the nukes are in place why haven't they gone off. I am calling this one a HOAX.
Thanks. Reposting to new TM thread.
Billy Ayers is NOT going to bomb the WH when his boy toy is in it.
“Actually, I believe they are required by their religion to give several warnings.”
I don’t recall any warnings prior to 9/11 and that killed more people than any other suicide bombing attack in the world. I concur with a previous poster who stated that if they had such a capability, they would simply exercise it: why risk detection/failure by alerting U.S. authorities?
Absent some very discrete demands of a sizable nature (i.e., “get out of Iraq” as opposed to “release those 3 Al Quaeda prisoners from Gitmo”), it would be pointless to give your enemy even the slightest strategic advantage with free advertising.
Conversely, if they DIDN’T have such a capability, they might hope to precipitate a panic by intimating they had it etc.
There is speculation that Gadaffhi (sp?) has around $20 billion in gold deep inside one of his palaces. I would not be surprised if/when his last act is to set off a dirty bomb contaminating it all.
It should be easy to decontaminate?
A...c...h...phlegm.
Love to Achmed!
Do you think that Janet Napolitano Ice Cream Lesbian and Obama will update this map and clean it up?
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