Investigators look for clues about bomb maker at Florida mail facility

The packages were removed Thursday morning from Delaware's postal facilities, law enforcement officials said.

Earlier Thursday, a suspicious package addressed to Trump's actor and critic legend, Robert De Niro, was reportedly reported in Manhattan, where his production company is located.

The security forces treat the bombs as a matter of internal terrorism.

Bombs sent to the FBI laboratory for further examination

The 10 packages were all mailed by the US Post, according to several law enforcement officials with the fact of the investigation.

The one that was delivered to the CNN office in New York was delivered by a courier, said one of the law enforcement officials.

George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who supported the Democrats, also uses a courier service that retrieves his mail at a post office, passes and delivers the filtered items to his home, the source said. It is possible that the private company engaged to manage his mail was the one who delivered the parcel to his home.

Some parcels would have been sent by first-class mail, said another source close to the investigation.

The bombs were transported to an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, officials said.

A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said that a suspicious powder of a package had been tested and that it had been initially considered to be unhealthy. being neither anthrax nor a known agent. The source added that there will be more tests in the coming days.

Questions about the bomb maker

One of the key issues of concern to the authorities is why no apparent bombs have exploded, a police source said, raising questions about the skills and motives of the bomb maker.

The FBI called them "potentially destructive devices" – so the bomb maker was strong enough to make sure no one would get away and never blow them up, or they were badly built.

The presence of what is believed to be a pyrotechnic powder is one of the reasons why the authorities consider it to be potentially destructive even though it seems that they have been manipulated by the postal system – where they were jostled and displaced – without any explosion.

External experts pointed out the lack of trigger mechanism, suggesting that they had never been designed to explode.

"All those who are doing it are simply trying to create fear or disrupt something," said Ryan Morris, founder of Tripwire Operations Group, a company providing explosive training for forces of the United States. order and the army. He had examined images of the devices sent to Soros and CNN offices in New York.

"There are a multitude of more sophisticated methodologies that would have worked if they really wanted it to work," he added.

The devices included very common components, which made it more difficult to obtain signs of the bomb's signature. But the components could still provide clues, like the clock and the band used.

The motive is unknown, but the recipients are all important targets of right-wing criticism and, in many cases, of Trump himself.

Authorities do not trust the information on an image of the ISIS flag on the aircraft, the source said, suggesting that they did not believe in international terrorism. The image appears to be a parody of an ISIS flag widely circulated on the Internet, an image that essentially parodies the ISIS flag, the source added.

A reporter, James O'Neill, police commissioner of the state of New York, asked a reporter when he had more bombs left to discover.

"But with the postal services present, we are doing our best to make sure to identify them quickly, if necessary," he said.