NYT: Powder Sent to The Times Not Anthrax

[DeepModem Mom]

Powder Sent to The Times Not Anthrax
By AL BAKER
Published: July 14, 2006

Police and environmental workers responded to The New York Times offices today after an employee in the postal services department opened a letter addressed to the newspaper and saw a powdery substance he believed to be suspicious, the police said.

The incident unfolded at about 12:35 p.m. on the eighth floor of the newspaper’s West 43rd Street offices as the mailroom worker opened the white, business-sized envelope with no return address and saw what he later described as a white powder, the police said.

The letter had a postmark from Philadelphia, the police said, and contained an editorial published by The New York Times on June 28 titled “Patriotism and the Press,” with a red “X” written across it, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. Mr. Browne said the substance had yet to be identified but that it was later deemed to be beige in color, not white.

Shortly before 5 p.m. an announcement was made over the Times public address system saying that the powder had been found to be “nonthreatening and nonhazardous.” According to field tests conducted by the Department of Environmental Protection, the substance was preliminarily identified as corn starch, though further analysis will be done at the city Health Department’s laboratory, as the protocol requires....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/nyregion/14cnd=powder.html?ei=5094&en=43753d0711cc932e&hp=&ex=1152936000&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1152916557-bIFRUrS5hzB/O4bfJA0WPg

[Guaranteed]

1. Well, that's good. nt

[bbernardini]

2. What's the freeper reaction to this? nt

[tridim]

3. It doesn't matter, it's still homegrown (Freeper/Coulter/RW) terror.

And it still doesn't hide the fact that real Anthrax was sent 3 years ago.