Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday October 23J2003 — A5 Nation Q "TT FIBD Iroestiiigsities WASHINGTON (AP) — A vial containing the deadly toxin ricin was found inside an envelope at a South Carolina postal facility federal officials said Wednesday The FBI was investigating but terrorism was not suspected A threatening letter inside the envelope indicated some sort of an extortion plot government officials told The Associated Ptess They declined to provide details “Based on die evidence obtained so far we do not believe this is linked to terrorism but is related to threats criminal in nature” 'said Brian Roehikasse spokesman for the Homeland Security Department Postal Service spokesman Gerry McKieraan paid the suspicious envelope was discovered last Thursday by a worker processing mail at the airport in Greenville SC The letter was sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention which determined the vial contained ricin Tests on the envelope and the outside of the vial showed none of the toxin escaped McKiernan said adding it’s crnenim fleeir nirD not believed any workers or the public were exposed Officials would not say to whom the envelope was addressed or why it was sin- ’ ' gled out for inspection Ricin is derived from the castor bean plant and is tela- - ' tively easy to make When inhaled or ingested fever cough shortness of breath chest tightness and low blood pressure can occur within eight hours Death can come between 36 and 72 hours after exposure There is no antidote The FBI repeatedly has warned local police about the possibility that terrorists might use ricin in an attempt to poison people through ventilation systems through drinking supplies or in food British police earlier this year arrested seven members of an Algerian extremist group on charges of plotting use ricin to kill a small number of people and terrify the London population Instructions for making ricin also were found in an safehouse in Kabul Afghanistan according to the FBI ' : Video of Columbine gunmen released AP photo Sniper suspect John Alien Muhammad listens to proceedings during his trial at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach Va on Wednesday Muhammad ia suffering from a chronic toothache and his right cheek is swollen GOLDEN Colo (AP)— A videotape of foe Columbine High School gunmen laughing and shooting at trees and bowling pins six weeks before they killed 12 classmates and a teacher was released to the public Wednesday “Imagine that in someone’s (expletive) brain” one of the teens says f (The tape of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who committed suicide after foe rampage on April 20 1999 shows at right to represent himself just least four different weapons as opening arguments were to including automatic rifles his death penalty trial begin in shotguns and a pistol He is being tried on murder Clad in a trench coat Klecharges related to foe killing of bold at one point holds a Dean Harold Meyers who was sawed-of- f shotgun and shoots shot at a northern Virginia from the hip at a pin wedged the station gasoline during between two tree limbs He series of attacks last October and Harris then look at a bul- metroaround the Washington tree trunk 10 which in area peopolitan blows across the also Harris were killed pie ' Prosecutors complained muzzle of a shotgun like a about Muhammad’s self-reprgunslinger The homemade tape was sentation Tuesday and asked released at foe urging of the the judge to rescind iL They Jefferson County sheriff’s said Muhammad was receiv- from much office and a task force estabtoo help ing Shapiro and Greenspun whose lished by foe attorney generrole as standby counsel was al’s office both of which want to make evidence in the case supposed to be limited entered the high school cafeteria during their rampage Randy Brown a member of foe task force said he and his wife warned sheriff’s deputies more than a year before the shootings that Harris had threatened to kill one of their 9) ' sons “The videotape is Sniper suspect stops serving as own lawyer VIRGINIA BEACH Va (AP) — Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind Wednesday and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of witnesses Circuit Judge LeRoy F Mil-let- te Jr informed the jury of Muhammad’s decision after a half-hoconference at the Jonathan bench judge’s Shapiro and Peter Greenspun who had been advising him on standby since his decision Monday returned to their former roles as his defense lawyers Muhammad had stunned the judge and even his own attor- -' neys whan he demanded foe cross-examini- ng : 'I!' i'-il- ' AP photo Columbine gunman Dylan Klebold left watches as Eric Harris sets to fire a pistol in this frame grab from a videotape released by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday public The sheriff’s office earlier litlNBOW e- released surveillance video showing foe teenagers as they killers?” Also on foe tape were Philip Duran and Marc Manes both of whom were charged with providing the teens with guns Duran was sentenced in June 2000 to 4 12 years in prison Manes was sentenced in 1999 to six years in prison SIOIO GfIKDQ Ji I NOTICE - 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How many opportunities were missed to stop these two - ur impor- - tant” Brown said “What’s awfsffi 4wi 0S (MmCi : |