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President Obama is sent letter laced with deadly poison ricin

President Obama is sent letter laced with deadly poison ricin
The US Secret Service intercepted the suspicious letter - which tests show contained poisonous ricin - before it reached the White House
Tests: A firefighter dressed in a protective suit walks into a mail facility
Barack Obama has been sent a letter laced with the deadly poison ricin, it was revealed today.It immediately sparked fears that the incident could be linked to the Boston attacks, but officials urged people to wait for the full facts before jumping to conclusions.The Secret Service said it had intercepted the envelope before it reached the White House. Spokesman Brian Leary confirmed: “A letter addressed to the president containing a ­suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility.”Earlier this week a letter sent to senator Roger Wicker also tested positive for ricin, which is twice as deadly as cobra venom. The letters both contained the message: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.”Both letters were signed: “I am KC and I approve this message.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the letter to Senator Wicker, of Mississippi, had a postmark from Memphis, Tennessee.
They have now been sent off to laboratories for extra testing.
On the possibility the poisoned notes could be linked to the Boston bombings, Jay Carney, White House spokesman, insisted: “Before we speculate, before we make any connections that we don’t know exist, as the FBI has said, we need to get the facts.”
The letters arrived at a White House screening centre that was set up after a number of anthrax attacks in 2001.
In the attacks, which came shortly after 9/11, several letters with white powder in them were delivered to political figures in Congress at Capitol Hill.
There were 18 cases and five people were killed by the poison.
Targeted: The poisonous letter was addressed to President Obama Ricin was used in the 1978 assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.The author, who had defected nine years earlier, was jabbed with the tip of an umbrella while waiting for a bus in London and died four days later.Ricin, a white powder derived from the waste made by processing castor beans, is a highly potent toxin that can kill an adult human in amounts as small as a few grains of sand.It is poisonous when inhaled, injected or ingested and symptoms - including fever, breathing difficulty, vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration and blood in the urine - can take anything from a few hours to a full day to appear.

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