While You Were Voting: Explosive Packages Sent To Leaders In Europe

Here is one measure of how completely yesterday’s election dominated the big headlines. While the nation and the media (probably more that latter than the former) were focused on the Midterm results last night authorities in Europe were scrambling to intercept packages containing bombs that had been sent to leaders in Germany and Italy. From CNN:

A package containing explosives was found at the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday and was handed over to police, her spokesman said.

The package had been shipped via cargo plane from Greece, said Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. Greece has seen a wave of attempted bombings in the past day….In addition, two other parcels containing explosives were discovered in the cargo section of the Athens airport on Tuesday, police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis said.

They were addressed to the European Union law enforcement agency (Europol), based in The Hague, Netherlands, and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, Kokkalakis said.

In Bologna, Italy, police said they found a package containing an explosive device addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

All this follows last week’s discovery of suspicious packages on separate UPS planes bound for Newark and Philadelphia, which at the time officials speculated might be part of a larger attack.

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