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WHO IS MAILING LETTER BOMBS TO AMERICA?

When Dana Sandarusi began opening the mail in his newspaper office at 9:15 last Thursday morning, something about one of the letters struck him as a bit strange. The envelope, which bore several Egyptian stamps and was postmarked from Alexandria on Dec. 21, ostensibly contained a holiday greeting of some kind. But unlike most Christmas cards, the envelope seemed oddly "heavy and kind of bumpy." So instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted a green wire...

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