Another Suspicious Package Ignites at Washington, D.C. Post Office
- Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:53pm by
Meredith Jessup
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4:58 p.m. UPDATE: The package which ignited Friday at a Washington, D.C. postal facility looked “similar” to the book-sized envelopes that detonated in Maryland on Thursday, police officials said.
Workers at the V Street postal annex are not allowed to open packages. But the package ignited after another package was thrown on top of it, USPS spokesperson Joanne Veto says.
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4:22 p.m. UPDATE: Fox News is reporting that the suspicious incendiary package was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Additionally, an FBI spokesman has confirmed to WTOP that the package is similar to the two incendiary devices that were opened in Maryland on Thursday.
Postal Service spokesperson Joanne Veto says the suspicious D.C. package was discovered after another package was thrown on top of it. She said the labels, postmark and stamps were similar to the Maryland parcels.
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WTOP in Washington is reporting that at least one package ignited at a D.C. postal distribution facility Friday afternoon. Police say one or two packages ignited at a post office in the 3300 block of V Street, NE shortly after 3 p.m.
Photo: Google Maps
There have been no immediate details available as to whether anyone has been injured or how many people were in the facility at the time the package was discovered. The facility has since been evacuated.
“We are working aggressively to determine whether the situation is related or involved to anything else that we’ve been working on in the last two days,” Postal Inspection Service spokesman Mike Romano told the Washington Post.
The location screens and handles mail and packages mailed to federal government agencies. It was set up in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and anthrax scare.
Authorities are taking precautions after a “lone wolf” sent incendiary packages to government buildings in Maryland which ignited and injured two mail workers Thursday.
The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the suspect behind Thursday’s threats was upset about electronic traffic signs which ask motorist to report suspicious activity.
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GoingBeck
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:23pmI suspect Obama of staging this to implement martial law.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:22pmTSA’s new slogan ” Show us your package!”
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:22pmDid anyone check to see if this was just an ordinary package from “Bomb of the Month Club”? I mean those terrorists must be getting those devices from someplace.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:35pmThe hell of it is the package was from big sis’ FAN CLUB. It‘s gettin’ tough out there.
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:10pmOverwhelm the system.
Report Post »Lonescrapper
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:22pmAnarchists. They see the opportunity and it is their time.
Report Post »WhatsUp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:09pmIt‘s Bush’s fault! Actually, wouldn’t put it past Homeland Security to have created this incident–never waste a crisis and take advantage of the fear to take away more of our freedoms!
Report Post »clipper
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:09pmTHEBLAZE., I posted earlier with what I felt was an unoffensive comment and you flagged me.Please explain.New editing now?FALSE FLAG.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:02pmYa…this situation smells pretty stinky… especially when Janet Nappy is hopping off the plane back from Israel..and saying somehting retarted about how easily things can be built with everyday houshold chemicals… WTF? Did she have a flash back to a highschool chem class..and get confused that may be a fact of life…or was she TELEGRAPHIING..? I say she was telegraphing..what is to come.. They are going to lower the hammer..on consumer proudcts..and probably make mailing a package like going through a TSA fullbody scanner and pat down.
They need to obliterate our methods of communication on a domestic scale so they can put all the other pieces in place..
Report Post »johnnyfive
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:54pmOh boy, get ready for more forced police statism. $10 bucks this is all linked and planned for legislation that is already drawn and ready to implement after much, ahemmm..debate.
Want finger prints and SSNs to send a package? How about police getting to have sex with your wifes? When will you say stop?/?
Report Post »Johnnyp1958
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:50pmThe CIA plants the bombs and HomeLand Security takes more freedoms away
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:46pmI still think it is one of Ayers’ students that could not stay awake in class at the right time to realize he needed to include the main charge.
Report Post »butchcoolidge
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:34pmhahahahahha, it was addressed to Janet Nepalitanoreno…
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:40pmJanet’s staff probably sent it .. try to get our minds off the border. You know what they say the smokey package gets the grease.
Report Post »clipper
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:32pm3….2….1 It must be those old,white,teabagging,birther,Republican,Beck loving,conservative,racists.
RightUnite
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:31pmYeah, can we all say plants? Not enough to really cause damage or injury, just big enough to make
Report Post »the citizenry think we’re all so much safer now!
butchcoolidge
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:31pmI wonder where they got the info it was a “Lone wolf?”
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:43pmMaybe ’cause they already know who it is?
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:28pmI know of some suspicious activity… I know this guy who is here illegally. Who has changed his name and has paid millions of dollars to suppress all of his records since he has been in this country and his life abroad. This person is conspiring with his Communist and Marxist friends to bring down this country as fast as he can. Not to mention a liar cheat and thief. FBI / CIA please pick this person up and deport him. He has residences in Chicago and Washington DC. Please hurry our country’s fate is at stake!!!!
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:29pmYou have that backwards…he gets to be king as you well know….the suspicious ones, are citizens that work hard, pay taxes and obey the laws…..just ask any lib!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:34pmIs it the guy that Billy Clinton pardoned HOURS before leaving office—–MARC RICH?
Report Post »warmac9999
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:26pmThese attacks seem to be probing attacks. Small injuries but you get a sense of readiness. In addition, what better than to disturb an already fragile freight and mail transport system. These mail devices might be similar in intent to the ones used recently overseas in printer cartridges.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:22pmNo what is going to happen is there will be several people in your neighborhood (block captains) that will be assigned to pat down you, your wife, and your kids as you exit the house… TSA has announced they have a new required “tent” that shall be placed on each property at the front door so that the TSA can do a strip search before you go out into public… If you elect to not have the approved TSA pat down/strip search… then you will be taken to a local holding facility (not jail, although it will be a jail like location but only in appearance… but it is not really jail). that is where you will stay and the THUGS (The Happy United Government of the States) also known as the TSA will provide you with plenty of “work” to do while you are provided with safe settings to do your “work” for the People!!!
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:14pmYou tell me – after the ones in Maryland, why isn’t EVERY government in the country looking for these things? Surely, if they find one unopened, undisturbed package and manage to get some info off the package (like the frigging POST MARK of where it was mailed) MAYBE the cops could begin to really investigate.
(These things re burning up as they’re opened right? They’re not spontaneously flaming up are they??)
Report Post »Crewbot
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:09pmThere’s nothing to worry about. According to liberals, this is only a man-made disaster. Not a terrorist attack!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:15pmWould that – according to the liberals own definition – make Chernoble a ‘small, irrelevent experiment in making the earth glow in the dark for many millenia to come.
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:39pmI think that would be a good analogy SnowLeopard3200.
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:08pmCould this be a copy cat?
Report Post »racialcoward
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:58pmWE WILL NOT LIVE IN A NATION WERE DEMOCRATS CAN GET AWAY WITH ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND MURDERS WHEN THEY ARE DEFEATED IN ELECTIONS.
I do not want to have to listen to their threats of violence and using Labor Unions like the Nazis used theri Black Shirts. The nation is finished and the 50 states must band together and work to determine how to dismantle the Federal Government and create a new certralized government or to divide up the nation like the Soviet Union.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:06pmI wonder what left wing nut job is doing this. Is this supposed to incited americans, or to hurt/kill postal workers?
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:58pmSweet now TSA will be at the post office to give me a feel up before I send a letter.
Report Post »Where is our communist and chief ??? Did he go on vacation again? Is anyone checking to make sure that the handwriting matches Pivens?
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:06pmIt will most likely be the new duties of the TSA-KGB Inc. to both pat us down and screen us via a total strip search at the postal office, in addition to opening each and every one of our letters and the parcels we receive or mail. They will also confiscate any valuables or suspicious items such as a teddy bear card, or a gift certificate intended for someones birthday; for reasons of ‘state security’ as it goes into their own pockets.
And of course to declare anything bad or evil about their methods will only make you another listed enemy of the administration and the state as well; except if you are a muslum, or a dedicated and declared terrorist – then you will get the full red carpet treatment.
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:10pmIf anyone doesn’t believe we are at war and the war is also at home, they have their heads up their butts.
This animated web movie exposes the insanity of the Progressives with big time humor. It also gives Americans a new symbol (weapon) to use against the Progressives — the “head-up-the-butt” person. Please feel free to save the “no head up the butt person” logo from the movie link page to your desktop.
http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:39pmI’m wondering if now we need to check who is working at the post office. I know with most govt jobs the lowest bidder usually gets the work. It would be very easy for somone to pass a dangerous package through if they are working for the other side.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:40pmFalse flag.
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:54pmDollars to doughnuts these are all from leftist.
The vast majority of political violence in the past 100 years has been from the hopelessly ignorant left.
Report Post »Aldo_the_Apche
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:55pmpivon is probably trying to frame right wing conservatives
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:08pmNaked body scans for everyone in Washington DC NOW !
Report Post »Let’s start with the White house then Congress, CIA and so on
jzs
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:18pmI am enjoying the posts. Whether this is an act of domestic terrorism or foriegn, all the comments here direct anger not toward the terrorists, but toward the US government. As long as Obama is President, it’s pretty obvious you guys are siding with the terrorists. Nice.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:47pmMaybe because we are tiered of being False flagged to death
Report Post »http://911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html
http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag
so this attack could be real, but there will always be doubt.
racialcoward
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:06pmDEMOCRATS ARE SENDING OUT THESE BOMBS TO KEEP CHAOS GOING. AMERICA WILL NOT FALL FOR THIS DEMOCRAT TRICK.
The Uni-Bomber who sent letter bombs to CEOs in Gore’s book was an Al Gore Democrat. Man who crashed his plane into Dallas IRS office building was Obama radical, the Moslem DC snipers Melbo and Mohammad were Democrats. Look for a Democrat and you will find your new letter bomber.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:11pm@JZS
Report Post »I think your looking for the Bush bashing site. It’s still at msnbc, cbs, abc, ny times, huffington post, la times or straight out of the Dems mouth.
Or is what your saying is that not siding with BO makes you a terrorist. Sounds like something that his czars or cabnet would say.
Drink the kool-aid bro it will all be ok.
racialcoward
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:07pm2011 MUST BE THE YEAR WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL OFF OF THE US FLAG
If Democrats are going to be allowed to get away with their acts of treason, violence, and murder then the States must begin to work at pulling their star off of the Flag. The American people have a 300 year heritage of the Rule of Law and we are faced with imprted aliens who only want to join with the Democrats to destroy us. Its our destiny;
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 4:54amJZS – the gov’t is as equally dangerous as terrorists
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:22pmI believe that 90% of you who are cheering on the terrorists, provided their actions take place when a Democrat is President, are probably not a threat to our country. But I estimate that 10% or so of you are probably contemplating terrorism against the United States. I am glad the CIA is monitoring this site so that they can head of potential violence against our country.
The Unibomber was a Democrat… That’s rich.
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