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| Alarming cost of false alarms, anthrax hoaxes |
| 2009-03-09 |
| Among the recent targets: • Nearly all 50 governors' offices • About 100 U.S. embassies • 52 banks • 36 news organizations • Ticket booths at Disneyland • Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles • Town halls in Batavia, Ohio, and Ellenville, N.Y. • A funeral home and a day-care center in Ocala, Fla. • A sheriff's office in Eagle, Colo. • Homes in Ely River, N.M. The FBI has investigated about 1,000 such "white-powder events" as possible terrorist threats since the start of 2007. In the past two fiscal years, records show, U.S. postal inspectors responded to more than 5,800 reports of letters and packages containing suspicious substances. Only a few-dozen cases have resulted in arrests. |
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