炭疽菌攻击？美联邦大楼接获白粉信函

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中央社    2010-06-15 06:20:18

　　台湾中央社引述美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，FBI在华盛顿州西雅图的代表葛特（Fred Gutt）表示，FBI已参与调查，所有现场都有探员工作。

　　葛特表示，西雅图市中心的联邦办公大楼以及FBI的办公室等，都收到可疑信函。


　　FBI女发言人柏特兰 (Debbie Dujanevic Bertram)在犹他州盐湖城（Salt Lake City）表示，在爱达荷州的联邦检察官和FBI等办公大楼也收到类似信函。

　　柏特兰表示，现场检验并未发现粉末有毒，但样品仍送回实验室进一步检验。

　　据报道，警方一名女发言人表示，在西雅图的贝尔维尤（Bellevue）地区，一名雇员打开信封，粉末喷溅出来后，4层楼的国税局（IRS）大楼立即撤离人员。她表示，大楼将保持净空，直到当局确认粉末性质后。

　　在爱达荷的波伊西 (Boise），警方发布声明表示，在邮寄给当地联邦检察官办公室的信封中发现粉末后，消防当局仅撤离大楼内该办公室人员，并在检验确定粉末无威胁后，让撤离人员返回办公室。

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White powder mailed to federal buildings in Northwest

By the CNN Wire Staff
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    * NEW: At least seven buildings received letters with white powder, FBI says
    * NEW: Three in Washington, four in Idaho
    * Bellevue, Washington, IRS evacuated while state lab tests substance
    * U.S. attorney's office in Boise, Idaho, cleared

RELATED TOPICS

    * Federal Bureau of Investigation
    * Washington
    * Idaho

(CNN) -- The FBI is investigating letters containing a white powder that were mailed to at least seven federal offices in the states of Washington and Idaho, FBI representatives said Monday.

"We are involved," the FBI's Fred Gutt said in Seattle, Washington, adding that agents were "still on the scene of all of them."

Gutt said letters had been received at the downtown federal building in Seattle, the FBI office at the Rockpointe Building in Spokane, and IRS offices in Bellevue.

FBI spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic Bertram in Salt Lake City, Utah, said similar letters had been found in Idaho at the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI office in Coeur d'Alene, at the FBI office in Pocatello and the U.S. Attorney's office in Boise.

Bertram said field tests indicated the substances were not toxic, but samples were sent back to labs for further testing.

In Bellevue, the four-story IRS building was evacuated when an employee opened a letter and the white powder "poofed out," Bellevue Police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate said. The building will remain empty until authorities identify the powder, she said. A state laboratory will conduct those tests, she said.

In Boise, the police department issued a statement saying the powder was found in an envelope mailed to the U.S. attorney's office. The Boise Fire Department evacuated only that office in the building, and allowed the employees back in when tests determined the substance was not a threat.

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