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I DONT TRUST THIS AT ALL !
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So you think this is a trick so that the other agencies will open their suitcases too, but then their cases WILL be dangerous and perhaps release something toxic?
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link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
Poisoning scare hits U.S. Embassy in Paris PARIS — Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Paris were examined for suspected poisoning on Friday after opening a suspicious envelope, but
preliminary results indicated it was not harmful, the embassy said in a statement.
"The Embassy confirms that a suspicious envelope was received. Per Embassy security procedures, the two employees who were exposed to it were evaluated by medical professionals and the envelope is being analyzed by a laboratory," the statement said.
"Preliminary results indicate that the envelope was not harmful." French police officials said the two people involved were feeling "unwell" and that the incident was being investigated. A mobile laboratory was deployed at the site to test for poisonous substances.Elizabeth Detmeister, deputy press attache at the embassy, said in a statement: "The embassy confirms that a suspicious envelope was received. Per embassy security procedures, the two employees who were exposed to it were evaluated by medical professionals and the envelope is being analyzed by a laboratory."
"Preliminary results indicate that the envelope was not harmful," she added.Mailroom workers
She told msnbc.com that the two employees concerned worked in the mailroom at the embassy.
"They thought there was something suspicious [about the envelope], they reported it and our normal procedure is to have them treated or looked at by medical officials just in case," Detmeister said.
She said she was not aware of what caused the workers to be suspicious but added there was "no powder."
Embassy spokesman Paul Patin added: "We have no indication that anyone is in danger or hurt."
Reading this above does my inner allarmbells rinkle even more .. I dont know why. In my FEELING it is contradictory.
First of all today is FRIDAY. It is 15:45 in holland and Paris. Did all that happen today ? or last week ?
If it was TODAY why dont they say today in the article ?
OP (and girlfriend) talked about BRIEFCASES, NOT LETTERS !
How could the 2 in the mailoffice see and know this letter was SUSPICIOUS ??? AND WHY WOULD THEY OPEN A SUSPICIOUS LETTER with risking lethal-powders or virusses ???? I like to believe that mailroom-employees are instructed how to handle "suspicious mail" ... and that such mail SHOULD NEVER BE OPENED at OWN initiative, but should follow a security protocol which handles the letter/envelope to an investigation agent !
Why did they feel UNWELL if prelimanary results show that the enveloppe is unharmfull ??? Were they feeling UNWELL of GUILT for doing something they were not allouwed according to safety protocol ???
In stead of putting all in quarantine, all kinds of people already had contact with the 2 employees and the enveloppe : police, medical personel, lab-personel, ...
This sentence does not ring well :
"They thought there was something suspicious [about the envelope], they reported it and our normal procedure is to have them treated or looked at by medical officials just in case,"WHO in the hell did they thought to have the clearance and authority to OPEN UP mail ??? SUSPICIOUS MAIL !!!! They had no RIGHT doing that !!
This is not logic peepz !!This is also not according security standarts !!!!
I DONT BUY THIS WHOLE STORY !!!!I believe OP, but not this bullshit story in the media.
How come this Elisabeth
deputy press attache does not know what made the 2 employees think that made the envelope suspicious ??? That is 1 of the first things you ask those employees !!!!!! Maybe they do not want to tell it to the public ... but this does not make sence at all !!!
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Embassy spokesman Paul Patin added: "We have no indication that anyone is in danger or hurt.""Not having an indication" is not the same as "NO ONE IS" ... if this is
a time-released technology that could indicate that the THREAT could come out in 24 hours or 18 hours or 13 hours, whatever activates that time-release ...
My thought is -also coz it happened in an US-EMBASSY and not an other country's, that it is A WARNING SIGNAL !!!
My guts tell me this is a SET UP ! 
