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.
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Senator: Police have suspect in ricin mailing
By Henry C. Jackson
Associated Press
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Washington — Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130417/NATION/304170387#ixzz2Qih4CstS
Why Wicker? What is he to the jihadists? Why not Peter King? He is a real stone in the jihadists path. I know nothing about Wicker, except he is one of the Republicans proposing "dialog" on gun control. It may well be an "extremist" on the other side of the spectrum. This one could well be domestic.
As for Boston, I pray IT IS a jihadist attack. The "cooking" instructions are apparently available to everyone. If it´s not a jihadist plot, and happens to be someone else, it would be a deadly blow to our cause. We would have handled them victory on a silver plate.
The clearing of the Saudi guy is already a minus. CAIR will scream Islamophobia until they turn blue.
Anonymous,
The Saudi guy was cleared as a suspect, but labeled a "Witness".
If this turns out to be a "right wing nut", as the media puts it, then I'm afraid conservatives in America should say buh bye to the Constitution along with their rights.
Conservatives will be ridiculed and prosecuted and targeted worse than Al Qaeda (I can guarantee that right now) because Al Qaeda is just "freedom fighters" to these leftist bastards but you are the real enemy.
You'll do well to read up on Argentina's own history with the rise of Peron and the de-legitimization (if that's even a word) of the conservatives.
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