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                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Wednesday, January 15, 1997            TAG: 9701150109
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-6  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS

NEWSPAPER GETS FOURTH LETTER BOMB FBI ASSUMES `THERE ARE MORE OUT THERE'

Following the discovery early Tuesday of a fourth letter bomb sent to an Arabic-language newspaper here, FBI agents and the police bomb squad began surveillance of local post offices and the New York City plant that prints the U.S. edition of the besieged paper.

Like the three bombs discovered Monday, the fourth was addressed to the U.N. bureau of Al-Hayat, a Saudi-owned, London-based newspaper, and postmarked in Alexandria, Egypt. All were discovered and defused.

But a bomb exploded Monday at the paper's London headquarters, injuring two, one seriously.

Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak suggested that the postmarks were fake and that the bombs originated elsewhere.

James Kallstrom, director of the FBI's New York office, said Tuesday that the FBI is ``working closely with law enforcement in Egypt'' to track down the bombs' source.

``Make the assumption there are more out there,'' he said.

In the past two weeks, 12 letter bombs have arrived in the United States postmarked Dec. 21 in Alexandria. Five were addressed to Al-Hayat's Washington, D.C., office; four to its U.N. bureau; and three to ``Parole Officer, Pwnitentiary [sic], Leavenworth, Kansas 66048-1000,'' according to the FBI.

The letter bombs, contained in plain white envelopes measuring 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches, with computer-generated addresses but no return addresses, have been arriving in the United States since Jan. 2.

- Newsday

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