In an odd
incident in Boston on the 22nd, emergency personnel converged on Kerry/Edwards HQ in response to receipt of an envelope containing a white powder.
Field tests ultimately determined the substance to be simple garlic powder.
This time it turned out that what appeared to be an possible terrorist attack was an expensive and frightening prank, but it suggests how the pervasive fear of terrorism could be used to disrupt the Presidential campaign.
Who might be interested in disrupting the Kerry/Edwards and have the requisite desperation, means, and ruthlessness to use terrorist attacks is an open question.
This diary is to point out the incident, which in the scheme of things isn't all that important, and use it to prompt consideration by inventive and well-informed Kosians of who might follow on this example with real attacks, and what the best means of harming a campaign politically or logistically with terrorism might be. The first line of defense in counter-terrorism is threat identification: go to it!