Posted on 09/17/2007 8:21:43 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Police Release 9 Threatening Postcards
OCALA, Fla. -- Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words 'Jihad-Boom" and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside.
Investigators released the postcards with the threatening drawings on them Monday in hopes of generating leads in the case.
Officials said that the postcards are made up of various and traditional themes, and each one has a distinctive hand-drawn cartoon on it. Several of the threats arrived on postcards featuring Walt Disney World.
Detectives said the threat-maker crossed his or her No. 7s and attached a suffix to the address. Six of the nine postcards spell the word "Jihad" correctly, while the others are incorrect.
The U.S. Postal Service said that the postcards were all mailed to the schools from the Ocala-Gainesville mailing district before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A $10,000 reward has been issued to anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for using the postal service to mail the threatening postcards to schools.
[See site for pictures of the postcards.]
Actually, Europeans tend to cross sevens. In fact, in the United States, Amateur radio operators also cross their sevens and zeros, because when you’re copying morse code traffic (or even voice) it helps to differentiate between Oh and Zero. And a lot of people make a ONE that looks like a Seven.
It’s a hoax
A couple of Disney postcards in there too.
October 10 surprise or just a kid’s prank?
Bump to save my place.
A handwriting analyst could probably tell a lot about the characteristics of the person who sent them.
BTTT!
Thanks for the ping velveeta.
geez.
Yes, it was on an Egyptian Calendar.
StillProud, do you have that picture scanned in?
while we were asking what our schools are doing to protect from this sort of thing. Apparently.. nothing
No they are making sure NOBODY has a weapon anywhere on school grounds, makes it easier for the cops to wait until everything is over to go in and clean up after the criminals. Us dumb citizens might accidentally shoot someone other than the terrorist if we were trusted to protect ourselves and children while the police hide behind trees as with VA Tech.
Oh, thank you. Never mind, Vel had it!
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10-10-680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
10-10-732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
10-10-1933 - United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
10-10-1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
Angry white male. Possibly Methodist. Owns gun.
The crossed sevens could mean they went to school in Europe or they just copied European writing. I cross my sevens and was born and raised in the U.S. No. I am nowhere near Florida and I have no reason to make bomb threats.
10-10-680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi’a Muslims as Aashurah.
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I looked this up. It’s a day of fasting, Iran, Pakistan. Makes it less likely to be just a bunch of Beavis and Butthead kids writing these.
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