Suspicious Powder Sent to NYC Consulates

French, Austrian, Uzbekistan Offices Receive Envelopes; Anthrax Test Negative; Letters Postmarked from Dallas

(AP)  Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the mailings were a hoax, police officials said.

A field test done on the powder sent to the Uzbekistan Consulate came back negative for anthrax or any other dangerous substance, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Brown said.

Envelopes containing a powder were also sent to the French and Austrian consulates.

All three envelopes had Dallas, Texas, postmarks, and at least one contained a note referencing al Qaeda, Brown said.

The potential threat prompted an emergency response from federal and local authorities, including hazardous material units that decontaminated employees of the consulates who handled the envelopes.

"The FBI is working with the NYPD to determine the origin of these letters," said Richard Kolko, spokesman for the FBI's New York Office. "Our field office will follow all leads to locate the sender."

Telephone calls to the consulates went unanswered or were not immediately returned.

[hungry1968-17]

by unbanable November 10, 2009 10:46 AM EST
The government has no problem filing false accusations against you, incarcerating you, costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, costing you your job, costing you your reputation and costing you your family. And, some prosecutor will knowingly do it just to make a name for himself or to advance his career. It happens all the time in america. Can you understand why someone might do something like this now? "Stupid SH*T" starts at the top and rolls downhill.






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Huh?

I'm asking why some moron in Dallas did this as a practical joke or political statement, costing the US government hundreds of thousands of dollars, and your response to my post is some completely unrelated rant?

[stn_sage]

I would say...bring in the FBI and CIA directors, give them shots of sodium pentathol, and find out what's REALLY going on!

If they come up 'clean', expand the inquiry to department heads of those same organizations who have the 'unofficial' title of domestic dirty tricks operations in their job descriptions, repeat the shots, and questioning!

In all likelihood, you'll solve this mystery and determine the source!

But, the results should all be positive...either you will prove the FBI/CIA personnel are 'clean' or you will find the source!

You can't lose!

[hungry1968-17]

Some moron probably sent this as a joke or a redneck racist thing, and the government is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for "an emergency response from federal and local authorities, including hazardous material units", and the resulting investigation.






Why don't people stop and think before they do stupid SH** like this?

[docpeter1953]

From the above article, "The FBI is working with the NYPD to determine the origin of these letters," said Richard Kolko, spokesman for the FBI's New York Office. "Our field office will follow all leads to locate the sender."

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So tell me again why are we working with the NYPD if the letters were mailed from Dallas?

Why are we not working with the US Postal Inspector and the Dallas PD and Dallas DHS?