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Pipe Bomb in Mail box...
gskyhawk
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If you haven't heard about this please read!!!
Sunday, May 5, 2002
Sixth Pipe Bomb Found in Nebraska
OHIOWA, Neb. (AP) - Rural carriers planned to deliver mail as usual on
Monday despite the discovery of six mailbox pipe bombs in Nebraska that
brought to 14 the total number of the weapons found across the Midwest
in recent days, authorities said Sunday.
No arrests had been made in the case Sunday, as officials renewed pleas
that whoever planted the bombs contact them and make their grievances
clear.
``I hope whoever is responsible would respond,'' said Thayer County Sheriff
David Lee, whose department received a call on one bomb found in a rural
mailbox near Davenport on Saturday.
Six people were injured by explosions in Illinois and Iowa on Friday. None
of the six bombs found Saturday in rural areas of Nebraska went off. They
were later detonated harmlessly by authorities.
An anti-government note found with the bombs warned of more ``attention
getters,'' and federal authorities described the bombs as an act of
domestic terrorism.
``We're still trying to get this thing put together. We are aggressively
investigating,'' said FBI spokesman Pete Sakaris in Omaha.
Among the six people injured Friday, only a 61-year-old woman remained
hospitalized Sunday. Doris Zimmerman, who lives near Anamosa, Iowa,
was listed in fair condition.
No widespread inspections of rural Nebraska mailboxes were planned,
and rural carriers intended to deliver mail as usual Monday, said Dave
Margritz, a postal inspector in Omaha.
Rural carriers will be on heightened alert, Margritz said Sunday.
Mail carrier Lyle Bartels of Ohiowa said he'll be cautious when he returns
to his route. Two of the pipe bombs found Saturday were in his delivery
area.
``I'm just going to try to look the boxes over a little bit before I open them,''
Bartels said. ``It's kind of scary.''
No decision had been made by early afternoon Sunday on deliveries in
Iowa, said Richard Watkins, a Postal Service spokesman in Des Moines.
``Postal Service is working with regional offices and local folks to
determine what the next step should be,'' Watkins said.
In Illinois, Carroll County Sheriff Rod Herrick said Sunday that most
residents seemed to have gotten over their shock, although some people
were asking him to use fishing line to remotely open their mailboxes as a
precaution.
``It's a typical Sunday. People are on the golf course. People are fishing,''
Herrick said.
One mail carrier injured by a bomb even took his wife to dinner later Friday
night ``to celebrate his survival,'' Herrick said.
Lee, the Thayer County sheriff, said the message conveyed by the bombs
is that terrorism can happen anywhere.
``Thayer County is just a rural, farming community, and I think that's just
showing that these kind of acts are going to reach everyone - not just
large metropolitan areas,'' the sheriff said.
Lee's request on Sunday that the bomber contact authorities followed a
similar message from the FBI on Saturday.
``You have gotten our attention. We are not certain we understand your
message. We would like to hear from you. We are listening,'' said
Weysan Dun, assistant special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Omaha office.
``You do not need to send any more attention getters.''
Postal officials said the bombs found Friday were accompanied by
typewritten notes in clear plastic bags that said, in part:
``If the government controls what you want to do they control what you
can do. ... I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can. More info is
on its way. More 'attention getters' are on the way.''
Officials described the bombs as three-quarter-inch steel pipes attached
to a 9-volt battery, and said they appeared to be triggered by being
touched or moved.
Two bombs found Friday in Iowa and the six found Saturday in Nebraska
didn't go off, even though at least two were picked up or moved by people
reaching for their mail. Five of the Nebraska bombs were in rural roadside
boxes; the sixth was in a mailbox in a residential development outside
Seward.
The FBI and Postal Service urged residents and mail carriers to be
cautious.
``We are asking postal patrons to keep their mailboxes open. We would
recommend they tape it open,'' said Rick Bowdren, inspector-in-charge of
the Midwest division of the Postal Inspection Service. ``That way the
carrier making a delivery can look in and patrons can look in and that
anxiety factor will be alleviated.''
Sunday, May 5, 2002
Sixth Pipe Bomb Found in Nebraska
OHIOWA, Neb. (AP) - Rural carriers planned to deliver mail as usual on
Monday despite the discovery of six mailbox pipe bombs in Nebraska that
brought to 14 the total number of the weapons found across the Midwest
in recent days, authorities said Sunday.
No arrests had been made in the case Sunday, as officials renewed pleas
that whoever planted the bombs contact them and make their grievances
clear.
``I hope whoever is responsible would respond,'' said Thayer County Sheriff
David Lee, whose department received a call on one bomb found in a rural
mailbox near Davenport on Saturday.
Six people were injured by explosions in Illinois and Iowa on Friday. None
of the six bombs found Saturday in rural areas of Nebraska went off. They
were later detonated harmlessly by authorities.
An anti-government note found with the bombs warned of more ``attention
getters,'' and federal authorities described the bombs as an act of
domestic terrorism.
``We're still trying to get this thing put together. We are aggressively
investigating,'' said FBI spokesman Pete Sakaris in Omaha.
Among the six people injured Friday, only a 61-year-old woman remained
hospitalized Sunday. Doris Zimmerman, who lives near Anamosa, Iowa,
was listed in fair condition.
No widespread inspections of rural Nebraska mailboxes were planned,
and rural carriers intended to deliver mail as usual Monday, said Dave
Margritz, a postal inspector in Omaha.
Rural carriers will be on heightened alert, Margritz said Sunday.
Mail carrier Lyle Bartels of Ohiowa said he'll be cautious when he returns
to his route. Two of the pipe bombs found Saturday were in his delivery
area.
``I'm just going to try to look the boxes over a little bit before I open them,''
Bartels said. ``It's kind of scary.''
No decision had been made by early afternoon Sunday on deliveries in
Iowa, said Richard Watkins, a Postal Service spokesman in Des Moines.
``Postal Service is working with regional offices and local folks to
determine what the next step should be,'' Watkins said.
In Illinois, Carroll County Sheriff Rod Herrick said Sunday that most
residents seemed to have gotten over their shock, although some people
were asking him to use fishing line to remotely open their mailboxes as a
precaution.
``It's a typical Sunday. People are on the golf course. People are fishing,''
Herrick said.
One mail carrier injured by a bomb even took his wife to dinner later Friday
night ``to celebrate his survival,'' Herrick said.
Lee, the Thayer County sheriff, said the message conveyed by the bombs
is that terrorism can happen anywhere.
``Thayer County is just a rural, farming community, and I think that's just
showing that these kind of acts are going to reach everyone - not just
large metropolitan areas,'' the sheriff said.
Lee's request on Sunday that the bomber contact authorities followed a
similar message from the FBI on Saturday.
``You have gotten our attention. We are not certain we understand your
message. We would like to hear from you. We are listening,'' said
Weysan Dun, assistant special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Omaha office.
``You do not need to send any more attention getters.''
Postal officials said the bombs found Friday were accompanied by
typewritten notes in clear plastic bags that said, in part:
``If the government controls what you want to do they control what you
can do. ... I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can. More info is
on its way. More 'attention getters' are on the way.''
Officials described the bombs as three-quarter-inch steel pipes attached
to a 9-volt battery, and said they appeared to be triggered by being
touched or moved.
Two bombs found Friday in Iowa and the six found Saturday in Nebraska
didn't go off, even though at least two were picked up or moved by people
reaching for their mail. Five of the Nebraska bombs were in rural roadside
boxes; the sixth was in a mailbox in a residential development outside
Seward.
The FBI and Postal Service urged residents and mail carriers to be
cautious.
``We are asking postal patrons to keep their mailboxes open. We would
recommend they tape it open,'' said Rick Bowdren, inspector-in-charge of
the Midwest division of the Postal Inspection Service. ``That way the
carrier making a delivery can look in and patrons can look in and that
anxiety factor will be alleviated.''
Comments
-- Life NRA Member
If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
This last batch was planted right in the boxes. The mail carriers found four of the six I believe when they went to deliver the peoples mail. The fifth and sixth were found by the home owners.
Do not mistake my kindness for weakness.
IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.