Suspicious Packages Found At Military Installations Around D.C.

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Source: NPR

The FBI responded to multiple government facilities in the Washington, D.C., area on Monday after reports of suspicious packages. The bureau said each package was collected for further analysis.

NBC News reports that one of those facilities was the National Defense University at D.C.'s Fort McNair, which received a package at 8:30 Monday morning and evacuated the building. Officials at Fort McNair told the network that the package tested positive for black powder, an ingredient in some explosive devices. An X-ray showed what looked like GPS and a fuse. The package was rendered safe.

Two other packages were sent to sites at Virginia's Fort Belvoir, southwest of Washington. One of those packages contained a vial of liquid and a circuit board, and was also rendered safe, NBC reports.

Other suspicious packages were found at D.C.'s Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, mail processing facilities for both the CIA and the White House, and a Naval base in Dahlgren, Va.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/27/597239347/suspicious-packages-found-at-military-installations-around-d-c

[lagomorph777]

1. Putin's ramping up vulnerability testing.

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2. Not a lot of info there - by what carrier(s) were they sent?

The mailer knows something about such facilities, should be a narrow population and hopefully quickly apprehended.

Is the world going crazy?

[ancianita]

3. Exactly. Testing the FBI's capacity.

[Eugene]

4. Man arrested for wave of package bombs around Washington

Source: Reuters

U.S. MARCH 27, 2018 / 11:43 AM / UPDATED 32 MINUTES AGO

Man arrested for wave of package bombs around Washington

Reuters Staff
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Washington state man has been arrested for allegedly sending package bombs that did not explode to U.S. military sites and a CIA mail office in the Washington, D.C., area, the FBI said on Tuesday.

The suspect, Thanh Cong Phan, 43, was arrested on Monday at his home in Everett, Washington, by federal agents and sheriff’s deputies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. He was scheduled to appear in federal court in Seattle on Tuesday afternoon.

Suspicious packages were received on Monday at mail processing sites at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, which is a Navy-Air Force facility in the District of Columbia; and Fort Lesley J. McNair in the U.S. capital, the agency said.

The packages also turned up at mail facilities at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, and the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-bases/man-arrested-for-wave-of-package-bombs-around-washington-idUSKBN1H3298