UPDATE AT END. Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay posted a tweet with an interesting observation: the mail bomb addressed to former Obama CIA Director John Brennan in care of CNN’s New York City bureau on Wednesday appears to bear an image of the flag of the Islamist terrorist group ISIS.
“This looks like an ISIS flag on the pipebomb sent to CNN/Brennan”
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1055153997823336448
Images:
(Note there are several different images of the Brennan/CNN mail bomb being published.)
Different vantage point of device posted by CNN.
This is a photograph of the suspicious package sent to the CNN building in New York City earlier this morning. Police say it appeared to be a live explosive device. https://t.co/aG9JsTfwhx pic.twitter.com/tcICHJErda
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) October 24, 2018
Image:
Also, the lack of a postmark on the package was explained as it was delivered by courier, reported CNN’s Kate Hinman.
“Law enforcement sources tell @ShimonPro the package sent to CNN was delivered by courier, not mailed.”
Law enforcement sources tell @ShimonPro the package sent to CNN was delivered by courier, not mailed.
— Katie Hinman (@khinman) October 24, 2018
More clues for investigators to pursue.
UPDATE: Voice of America reporter Jeff Seldin, “Latest from US CT official on the suspected bombs sent to @BarackObama @HillaryClinton, other high-profile Democrats & @CNN: “It’s early…We don’t have any indication that there’s a nexus to international terrorism”…”US counterterrorism officials aware of what looks like it could be an #ISIS flag on suspected bomb sent to @CNN-as tweeted out in this photo from CNN-and is looking into it. BUT official say the early assessment of no indication of a nexus to international terror remains”
Latest from US CT official on the suspected bombs sent to @BarackObama @HillaryClinton, other high-profile Democrats & @CNN:
"It's early…We don't have any indication that there's a nexus to international terrorism"
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) October 24, 2018
US counterterrorism officials aware of what looks like it could be an #ISIS flag on suspected bomb sent to @CNN-as tweeted out in this photo from CNN-and is looking into it. BUT official say the early assessment of no indication of a nexus to international terror remains pic.twitter.com/Vne5z1LSZ5
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) October 24, 2018