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Krauthammer: Ricin Sent To Senator Creates A "9/11 Feel" To Boston Bombing
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the relationship is important and the reason that there is a 9/11 feel is as I said last night, the attacks in Boston were the first successful bombing in the United States since 9/11. Eleven-and-a-half years.
BRET BAIER: The embassy in Benghazi, obviously is U.S. soil but [you're referring to] inside the United States proper.
KRAUTHAMMER: Inside the United States, in the homeland. And the scenes that we saw, a much smaller scale, of course, but it reminded us of 9/11. The people running in the streets of a great city, the smoke and the chaos, and the, you know, and the screams and the injuries. All of that was -- remember, we've intercepted and stopped a lot of the bombing attacks, all of them until now. So it had that -- the feel. I think that's the reason there was that resonance. Now all of the sudden we have, as happened on 9/11, with a chemical attack and then it has that whole picture. Again, we have to have a caveat. Is there any connection? Nobody knows, but it could be.
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Ricin Scare at the White House: An Eerie Post-9/11 Echo
An envelope filled with the toxic substance ricin was sent to President Obama, preliminary tests by the FBI confirmed on Wednesday. The announcement comes hours after an similar envelope, laced with the deadly bio-toxin, was stopped at a remote processing location before being delivered to Mississippi Republican Senator Tom Wicker. In addition, a suspicious envelope has been reported in Alabama Senator Richard Shelby's office, prompting the partial evacuation of two Senate office buildings Wednesday morning.
A senator is sent an envelope of poison after a terrorist attack. It sounds like the anthrax letters after 9/11—but Tuesday’s foiled attempt was ricin, a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. John Avlon on the scary parallel.
The day after the first terrorist attack against civilians on U.S. soil since 9/11, an envelope addressed to a U.S. senator is found packed with poison.
Suddenly, some of the chill from the fall of 2001 feels like it’s back—the uncertainty that comes from a one-two punch, albeit on a far smaller scale.Remember that in the wake of 9/11, anthrax was mailed to U.S. senators as well as to several media outlets. The unclaimed attack killed five people and infected 17, adding to the anxiety of the time. In 2004, an envelope laced with the deadly poison ricin was caught before it reached the offices of then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
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Just like in the days after the 9/11 attacks, a politician has been sent a poison filled letter the day after a massive attack on our soil. Yesterday, just one day after the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi was sent a letter full of the deadly poison ricin. It's horrifying for so many reasons, not the least of which is the echoes of one of the worst periods in American history.
Consider this: the Boston Marathon attacks on Monday came on a great day to be a Massachusetts resident. Patriots Day is a day of celebrating America's freedom, the shot heard round the world, and one of the most storied running events in the world. The attacks changed all that. They changed the sense of safety we get in a crowd at an event like a marathon. This isn't the kind of place one expects to be attacked. Then the letters started.
The weeks and months following 9/11 were a truly terrifying time to be living in the United States. The attack itself was horrifying and scary, but the anthrax attacks that followed made it feel like there was a terrorist on every corner. Is this going to be the same?
The thing about terrorist attacks that makes them different from other crimes is that they feel so random. Although whoever perpetrates them usually has some kind of insane "purpose" for what they have done, to most sane people, it just feels like things can happen anytime, anywhere. That's why they call it "terror."
The letters, in particular, feel like such a violation. We aren't even safe at home or at the office where an innocent act like getting the mail could get us killed.
The fear now is that this will just keep on happening. It's pretty terrifying.
Just after 9/11, anthrax was mailed to U.S. senators and also several news stations. Five people were killed and 17 were infected. This also isn't the first time ricin has been used. A package addressed to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in 2004 also contained the toxin.
These are scary times. There isn't much else to say. We are lucky we have checks in place that can catch such attacks and that's the best we can really hope for. The rest is up to chance. But we can't stop living our lives out of fear, even when we want to. If we do that, the terrorists really have won.
Do you feel on edge after the attacks?
Is everyone scared yet? It's nearly time to wheel out the heroic President to stand in front of the flag again! God bless America, my fellow Americans!
