LONDON, Feb. 9, 2007
Man Says He Sent British Letter Bomb
U.K. Police Arrest Man Who Called Radio Show Claiming To Be Wokingham Bomber
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(AP / CBS)
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The man was arrested Thursday after he attempted to appear on a radio call-in show, said Assistant Chief Constable Anton Setchell, the national police coordinator for domestic extremism.
The man specifically claimed to have sent a device to Vantis PLC in Wokingham, 40 miles southwest of London. Two employees suffered minor injuries in an explosion there Tuesday.
"At lunchtime yesterday a man claiming to be the Wokingham letter bomber called a national radio phone-in program. He wanted to go on air and claim responsibility and set out his reasons for doing it," Setchell told a news conference.
Instead, a British Broadcasting Corp. employee contacted police, and the 48-year-old man was arrested later in the day.
Setchell said police were investigating whether the suspect was responsible for the attacks. He said the man was being held under the Mental Health Act.
Here in the United States, the FBI is concerned about an escalating series of threats in the mail, addressed to companies and financial institutions, from a shadowy figure who calls himself "the Bishop," CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. It started with threatening letters. Now, "the Bishop" is mailing out bombs.
Police have said seven devices have been mailed in the U.K. the past three weeks, causing minor injuries to eight people.
The three most recent attacks were on offices that have some connection to motorists.
Police said Vantis' clients include Speed Check Services, which provides traffic monitoring technology. On Wednesday, a parcel bomb exploded and injured three women at Britain's driver and vehicle licensing agency.
Two days earlier, a woman was injured by an exploding parcel at the head office of Capita Group PLC, which has a number of government contracts, including setting up and running a system to enforce the $16 congestion charge on vehicles in central London.
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- This had bugger all to do with Blair & Bush & everething to do with excess road tax, congestion charge, dodgy speed cameras, 60% fuel VAT, traffic wardens, F@*`g civil servants etc!! ps I don't drive & don't even have a driving license! I just hate sniping on any one group & calling it justice!
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- These bombs are contained by paper. Paper is made from trees, right? Why not go back to the area the tree was taken from and do something nice for the environment. In most cases the sender is not going to be so inept. God is not mocked. whatsoever a man sows, that also shall he reap.
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- fascistusa
The most obvious thing about you,is that you must have hidden behind the door when brains were distributed.
Posted by rheola
THE MEDICAL TERM IS 'TETT'
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- A guy who is angry at the Brit DMV. Imagine that.
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- fascistusa ,
If you don't like it here and complain all the time, then get the hell out. - Reply to this comment
- fascistusa
The most obvious thing about you,is that you must have hidden behind the door when brains were distributed. - Reply to this comment
- The "CASH FOR HONORS" scandal was about to hit Lord Blair.
Oh, WAIT!!! A BOMB!!!!
Better change the HEADLINES!!! Don't worry about the scandal. Worry about the mad bomber.
BRITAIN IS FASCIST. AMERICA AND BRITAIN. ONE BIG FASCIST FAMILY. HEIL BUSH & BLAIR. - Reply to this comment
