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Fox TV is confirming that the substance has now tested positive for ricin and U.S. Senators have just finished being briefed on this.
No one is saying this is connected to Boston BUT coming the day after Boston. . .
Politico:
Letter sent to Roger Wicker tests positive for ricin
An envelope sent to an office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say.
It was not immediately clear when the envelope was received or whether it was sent to his Washington, D.C., office or a field office.
CNN:
Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
Washington (CNN) -- An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.
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- Police Smash White Supremacist Terror Plot To Poison Ethnic Minorities With Ricin
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UPDATE: Police also found an "anarchist type textbook" in the same room where the ricin was discovered. The book was tabbed at a spot with information about ricin. If the man was using, for instance, The Anarchist's Cookbook, then it is highly unlikely...
- Texas Poison 'em
Ricin discovered in University of Texas dorm:AUSTIN - A University of Texas student found a substance that has tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, in a roll of quarters she was using to do laundry in her dormitory, officials said....
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Attempted Ricin Attack on Senator Roger Wicker
Fox TV is confirming that the substance has now tested positive for ricin and U.S. Senators have just finished being briefed on this.
No one is saying this is connected to Boston BUT coming the day after Boston. . .
Politico:
Letter sent to Roger Wicker tests positive for ricin
An envelope sent to an office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say.
It was not immediately clear when the envelope was received or whether it was sent to his Washington, D.C., office or a field office.
CNN:
Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
Washington (CNN) -- An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. After the envelope tested positive in a first routine test, it was retested two more times, each time coming up positive, the law enforcement source said. The package was then sent to a Maryland lab for further testing.
Senators were briefed on the matter Tuesday evening and told the congressional post offices would be temporarily shut down.
"It was caught in the screening facility. That's why we have an off-site screening facility for mail," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri.
Ricin is a highly toxic substance derived from castor beans. As little as 500 micrograms -- an amount the size of the head of a pin -- can kill an adult. There is no specific test for exposure and no antidote once exposed.
It can be produced easily and cheaply, and authorities in several countries have investigated links between suspect extremists and ricin. But experts say it is more effective on individuals than as a weapon of mass destruction.
Ricin was used in the 1978 assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. The author, who had defected nine years earlier, was jabbed by the tip of an umbrella while waiting for a bus in London and died four days later.
- Uk Muslim Bought Ricin To Kill 1,400 People, Faces Light Sentence: “no Evidence That He Was Planning Any Sort Of Terrorist Attack”
He Wasn't Planning a Terrorist Attack - Instead, He Rolled His Boyfriend Around In a Pile of Ricin, and Then Stuck His Nose Up Said Boyfriend's Ass - Weird, Perhaps, But Certainly Not Terrorist Activity From Jihad Watch: Shocking pictures...
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Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen 'planning deadly ricin attack' on US, Obama warned I've been out of town a few days. This story came out yesterday, or the day before, but I don't think it has been posted here, and it needs to be. (DailyMail).Intelligence...
- Police Smash White Supremacist Terror Plot To Poison Ethnic Minorities With Ricin
from The Daily Mail h/t LGF Police smash white supremacist terror plot to poison ethnic minorities with ricin By Paul Sims Last updated at 9:29 AM on 06th June 2009 Police have smashed a global terror plot by white supremacists aimed at poisoning ethnic...
- Wmd In Las Vegas - Updated - Probably Not Related To Islamic Terrorism
UPDATE: Police also found an "anarchist type textbook" in the same room where the ricin was discovered. The book was tabbed at a spot with information about ricin. If the man was using, for instance, The Anarchist's Cookbook, then it is highly unlikely...
- Texas Poison 'em
Ricin discovered in University of Texas dorm:AUSTIN - A University of Texas student found a substance that has tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, in a roll of quarters she was using to do laundry in her dormitory, officials said....