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When Dana Sandarusi began opening the mail in his newspaper office at 9:15 last Thursday morning, something about one of the letters struck him as a bit strange. The envelope, which bore several Egyptian stamps and was postmarked from Alexandria on Dec. 21, ostensibly contained a holiday greeting of some kind. But unlike most Christmas cards, the envelope seemed oddly "heavy and kind of bumpy." So instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted...
...officials from the Washington police department and the FBI uncovered four additional envelopes addressed to the offices of Al Hayat, the Arabic-language newspaper Sandarusi works for. The second was found Thursday morning among unopened letters that had been delivered the previous Tuesday; the third and fourth arrived at 3 p.m. with the afternoon post; and the fifth was plucked from a regional mail center before it was sent on. All five closely resembled three identical letter bombs, also postmarked from Alexandria, addressed separately to "parole officer" at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Late last week U.S. intelligence officials...
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