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	UPS info for UPSers - Discuss: Bomb squad sent to local parcel service
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		The Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad was sent to a parcel delivery business in Maumee yesterday to investigate a suspicious package that ended up being an empty briefcase, police said.
	www.browncafe.com /forum/latest_ups_headlines/68073-discuss_bomb_squad_sent_local_parcel_service.html (253 words)

	Turin, Italy: Bombs attributed to anarchist groups \| Anarchist news dot org
		Two days earlier the bomb that was sent to the director of "Turin Chronicle", Beppe Fossati, exploded in his hands, wounding his hands and one eye.
		There is a strategy behind the parcel bombs that arrived these days in Turin: the first to the director of "TorinoCronaca", then to the constructors of a temporary shelter for immigrants, yesterday and today to the mayor of Turin, Sergio Chiamparino.
		The parcel bomb sent yesterday to temporary shelter Brunelleschi was claimed by someone using the acronym "Fai.Rat" in a handwritten note.
	anarchistnews.org /?q=node/562 (364 words)

	World Briefing \| Europe: Italy: Parcel Bomb Injures 3 Officers - New York Times
		A parcel bomb exploded and wounded three police officers in the central city of Perugia in the latest of a series of similar incidents.
		The parcel had not been mailed to the police but to someone else, who apparently deemed it suspicious and turned it over to them.
		Parcel bombs have recently been sent to politicians and journalists in Italy, and police have said that local anarchists might be responsible.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E3DF1F3DF932A15751C0A9629C8B63 (81 words)

	4th parcel bomb to EU office
		The Hague - A fourth parcel bomb sent to a European Union institution from the Italian town of Bologna was discovered Tuesday at the Eurojust headquarters in The Hague, a spokesperson for the European crime fighting organisation said.
		Dutch authorities are investigating the two parcel bombs sent to The Hague headquarters of EU policing organisation Europol and Eurojust, spokesperson Evert Boerstra said.
		On Monday parcel bombs arrived at the European Central Bank in Germany and at the European police organisation Europol in the Netherlands.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-10-1462_1464605,00.html (462 words)

	bomb incident news from scanna bomb and x-ray package screeners
		The discovery of two bombs in the past week is evidence that the threat from dissident republicans remains high, Northern Ireland's chief constable has said.
		The Derry bomb was found in a van which was being driven suspiciously on the Foyle Bridge.
		Police and bomb disposal experts were called to the scene, and police officers arrived and staff working in an exclusion zone of 100m in all directions around the package were moved.
	www.scanna-msc.com /news_mayjun2003.htm (2426 words)

	Security plan for suspected letter and parcel bombs
		Since all organizations receive mail, a letter and parcel bomb security plan is an essential component of this process.
		In preparing the Postal Bomb Security Plan, it is generally more advantageous to formulate it as an annex to the basic bomb security plan already in existence, if any.
		If identification/verification cannot be accomplished within a reasonable period of time, notify the police bomb squad that a suspect postal item has been detected by the mail screening process and has been placed in the holding container in the isolation area awaiting their arrival.
	www.usps.com /websites/depart/inspect/bombcorp.htm (2071 words)

	bomb incident news from scanna bomb and x-ray package screeners
		Bomb Found In Trunk Of Woman's CarOfficials Sunday were trying to find out why explosives were left in the trunk of a woman's vehicle at her Naperville home.
		A pipe bomb along with a shoe box full of a white, powdery explosive substance was found in the trunk of the car in a residential parking lot in the 1600 Block of County Lake Road in Naperville Saturday, according to Illinois State Police Tollway District Trooper Doug Whitmore.
		A bomb exploded in the mailbox of a school in France on Thursday, the third attack in what is apparently a campaign to intimidate a man appointed as the first prefect in France who is both foreign born and Muslim.
	www.scanna-msc.com /news_janfeb2004.htm (9919 words)

	Bomb Threats - Crimecrushers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whenever a bomb threat is received, it should be reported to local law enforcement immediately.
		When bomb threats are made, an initial search of the building should be conducted in one of three ways.
		During a bomb threat, the decision to evacuate is made by the owner or the manager.
	www.sonoma-county.org /crimecrushers/bomb_threats.htm (682 words)

	EPIC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is because the sender of the letter bomb will not want it to be weighed and inspected at a post office so he will usually affix more stamps than necessary.
		There are also instances in which the name of the addressee and his postal address are not directly typed or written on the envelope containing the letter or the parcel, but on a piece of paper, which is then pasted onto the envelope or the wrapping material of parcel.
		If an unexpected or unrequested parcel is received, check with the senders and addressee on what contents are expected in the letter or parcel.
	www.spf.gov.sg /iwitness/identification.htm (999 words)

	The Truth Seeker - EU chief Prodi unhurt after opening parcel bomb (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BOLOGNA, Italy - A parcel bomb has exploded in the hands of EU Commission President Romano Prodi at his Bologna home but he was not hurt.
		The former prime minister said he opened the parcel very carefully after "recent warnings", apparently in reference to two small home-made bombs that exploded in rubbish bins near his Bologna apartment on December 22.
		Several parcel bombs were sent to Italian police stations in October and one wounded a policeman in November when it blew up in his hands.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /print.asp?ID=1376 (478 words)

	Iran News - Parcel bomb in west Iran kills child, wounds two (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TEHRAN, Aug 18 (AFP) - A 10-year-old boy was killed Sunday in the Hamadan region of western Iran when a parcel bomb exploded, IRNA said.
		The parcel exploded in front of a house in the Ansar al-Emam village, near the city of Hamadan, the news agency said quoting police.
		On August 6, a policeman was slightly hurt when he attempted to defuse a parcel bomb in the northeastern pilgrimage city of Mashhad.
	www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=11629&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs (228 words)

	EU chief survives parcel bomb - www.theage.com.au
		The parcel was sent to his home address in Bologna, northern Italy.
		Preliminary investigations showed that the parcel had contained a nine-volt battery and an inflammable powder which ignited when Prodi opened the package.
		Bologna was the scene of one of Italy's and Europe's worst terrorist attacks when a neo-Fascist bomb killed more than 80 people at the main railway station there in 1980.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/12/28/1072546396316.html?from=storyrhs (635 words)

	Parcel bomb fails to hurt head of EU Commission \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Parcel bomb fails to hurt head of EU Commission
		ROME - European Union Commission President Romano Prodi opened a booby-trapped parcel at his home in Bologna on Saturday but was not hurt when the package, containing a book packed with explosive powder, burst into flames.
		Those bombs consisted of a cooking pot, a gas cylinder and a timer.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/3700 (443 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Turin hit by parcel bomb campaign
		Three parcel bombs have been sent to targets in the Italian city of Turin in the past week - believed to be linked to the city's policy on immigration.
		The first parcel bomb injured the editor of a local newspaper, which had been campaigning against plans to reserve a neighbourhood for immigrants.
		A day later, a bomb was delivered to the construction company contracted to renew a temporary reception centre for illegal immigrants, La Repubblica newspaper reports.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/5158716.stm (189 words)

	IFEX :: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After discovering the first parcel, the police interrogated the shipper, who told them that two other similar parcels were sent by the same sender, each recognisable by distinctive stickers of Confebask, the Basque employers' union, on each parcel.
		The third parcel was sent to Guerrero, who lives in Leioa and is in charge of the Antena 3 television station in Spain's Basque Country.
		The parcels contained a quantity of dynamite comparable to that which seriously injured journalist Gorka Landaburu on 15 May 2001 (see IFEX alerts of 17 and 16 May 2001).
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/15498 (776 words)

	Parcel bomb kills 1 in Pakistani port city \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Parcel bomb kills 1 in Pakistani port city
		KARACHI, Pakistan – A parcel bomb exploded at a container terminal in the port of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi yesterday, killing one person and wounding four, officials said.
		Police deputy superintendent Shahnawaz Khan said the parcel bomb exploded about 100 yards inside an area used for security checks on container trucks.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040526/news_1n26port.html (293 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		The parcel bomb was delivered to the house of Mohammad Sayeed Kakroo, a driver by profession, in Bijbehara about 45 km from here around 2230 hrs last night.
		Kakroo and his son, Mohammad Rafiq, were killed immediately on opening the parcel while his daughter, Shahzada, was injured in the blast and died in hospital this morning, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Anantnag range) Shiekh Owais said.
		In a similar incident in 1994-95, a photojournalist Mushtaq Ali was killed after a parcel bomb was delivered at the BBC office in Srinagar.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/001200505131410.htm (216 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Second parcel bomb addressed to Iberia found (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MILAN, Italy (Reuters) — A parcel containing explosive material addressed to the Milan office of the Spanish airline Iberia was deactivated at Milan aiport on Saturday, airport police said.
		It was the second parcel bomb in as many days addressed to to an office of the Spanish airline in Italy.
		Police sid the parcel, a large envelope, contained explosive powder and a fuse.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2002/2002-12-14-iberia-bomb.htm (116 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Italy has launched an anti-terrorist investigation after a parcel bomb exploded in the hands of EU Commission President Romano Prodi, but the former Italian prime minister brushed off the incident and urged calm.
		Prodi was not hurt on Saturday when he opened a letter bomb sent to his home in the central Italian city of Bologna.
		The parcel bomb, which was planted inside a book and burst into flames when Prodi opened it, was sent less than a week after home-made bombs went off in rubbish bins in the street near his apartment, also without hurting anyone.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/6C2F316E-804C-4782-9AF3-51DE0CEF90BB.htm (403 words)

	Bomb Threats
		Bombing incidents can cause the loss of human lives as well as damage to assets and infrastructure.
		If you are not sure of the origin of the letter/parcel but have reason to suspect that it is a bomb, treat it like a bomb and alert the Police.
		Otherwise, it is almost impossible to recognise a dirty bomb attack from a conventional bomb explosion.
	www.scdf.gov.sg /Community_and_CD_Volunteers/Learn_Civil_Defence/Terrorism/terrorism05.html (1458 words)

	Police defuse a parcel bomb at El País : print (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The parcel contained a book and a letter in Italian signed by an anarchist group calling itself "The Five Cs" (Cell against capitalism, prisons, their jailers and their prison cells).
		The police attribute several attacks to the "Five Cs," including a parcel bomb that exploded at the Italian television network RT4 on 18 July 2001, inflicting minor injuries on one person.
		In 2000, a total of seven parcel bombs were sent to newspapers or journalists in Spain.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=4532 (521 words)

	Bomb Detection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His company also makes sure that bomb threa t forms are readily available so that personnel can immediately record the information, such as the details of the threat and the way the caller sounded.
		Consequently, twelve "Christmas card" letter bombs postmarked from Alexandri a, Egypt, and sent to several locations in the United States (and one in London) in late 1996 and early 1997 will all be counted as part of the agency's fiscal 1997 incident report.
		Vandalism and revenge were the primary motives for the 387 pipe bomb cases where motives were known; thirteen were for robbery, three were related to labor unrest.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/000354.html (2528 words)

	Guardian \| Parcel bomb murder suspect could return to UK from Spain
		One of Britain's most wanted men learned yesterday he had lost his appeal against extradition from Spain and could soon be returning to the UK to face trial for a parcel bomb murder 18 years ago.
		Kent police want to question Keith Cottingham, 71, over the killing of Barbara Harrold, a 53-year-old who died six days after a gift-wrapped package full of pellets and nails exploded at her home in Ightham, near Sevenoaks in Kent.
		They discovered Cottingham had left England for Spain on a night ferry hours after the bomb was posted.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4472756-103690,00.html (419 words)

	Quantum - Bomb Sniffer
		Parcel bombs can be hard to detect, and there are some explosive devices that cannot be picked up by regular scanning techniques.
		And it was reading about the NCA bombing that spurred them into action.
		Remarkably, not only can it directly detect explosives in a parcel, it can identify as little as 50 grams of explosive - about the weight of your average letter.
	www.abc.net.au /quantum/stories/s112369.htm (682 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Bomb blast at the Indonesian embassy in Paris
		According to the TvNz, a small parcel bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris before dawn on Friday, slightly injuring 10 people and shattering windows, but officials said they had no clues to the motive.
		The bomb, left on the pavement next to a thick outside wall of the elegant 19th century building, caused only minor damage to the embassy, but shattered windows in nearby buildings and cars.
		Bomb blasts have hit three Egyptian Red Sea resorts used by vacationing Israelis, killing at least 35 people in attacks that Israeli security sources say bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
	newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2004/10/09/56519.html (1611 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Parcel bomb sent to Kumaratunga
		Police in Sri Lanka say they have intercepted a parcel bomb addressed to President Kumaratunga, who was injured in a suicide bomb attack last month.
		The parcel was put through an X-ray machine and when a clock mechanism was spotted, a bomb disposal squad was called in.
		This is the first reported instance of a letter bomb being sent to the president - although some have been received by members of the security forces in previous years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/606758.stm (303 words)

	Parcel bomb kills Ethiopian policeman, injures seven others (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The parcel bomb was reportedly delivered as a gift to a manager of Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) in Addis Ababa western region.
		The manager, who was suspicious of the parcel decided to take it to the nearby police station for inspection and police on realising it was an explosive called in their expert to diffuse it.
		According to the government spokesman, who asked for anonymity, the ETC manager told the police the deadly parcel was probably sent to him by someone "linked to the illegal use of mobile phones" in the country.
	www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng094481&dte=29/09/2005 (191 words)

	KARACHI: Eight injured in three Karachi blasts
		The police detected a parcel bomb from among them, which was addressed to DSP Mazhar Mashwani.
		Two more parcels bombs similar to those exploded on Wednesday in Tughlaq House, the DIG operations' office and the CID office, Civil Lines, were handed over to the police investigation branch on Thursday.
		The explosive devices in the parcels were neutralized at the Hill Park by bomb disposal experts of PNS Himaliya on the request of the police.
	www.geocities.com /sipahisahaba/2002/16102002.htm (1103 words)

	CNN.com - Anarchist group blamed for parcel bomb - October 19, 2000
		An Interior Ministry official said a little-known anarchist group, which has claimed responsibility for two similar parcels sent to the paper, was believed to be behind the action.
		Security guards discovered the parcel, sent to a society page editor of La Razon, a conservative daily newspaper in Madrid, during a routine scan of incoming mail on Thursday.
		The sub-director of the society section, Alfredo Semprun, said the package contained a small bomb stuffed inside a video tape and had arrived with his name on it.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/19/spain.explosive (344 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Karachi, May 25 (Reuters): A parcel bomb exploded at a container terminal in the port of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi today, killing one person and wounding four, officials said.
		We are determining whether or not it was a deliberate act of terrorism,” provincial police chief Syed Kamal Khan said.
		Police deputy superintendent Shahnawaz Khan said the parcel bomb exploded about 100 metres inside an area used for security checks on container trucks.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040526/asp/foreign/story_3293772.asp (331 words)

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