Mall of America, U.S. presidents among long list of bomb threats in one man's yearlong campaign
For nearly a year, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies probed scores of threatening letters from the same source promising to kill elected officials and bomb targets across the country, including the Mall of America.
One wave of letters sent to a Minneapolis resident and to multiple former presidents last year vowed to copy the Oct. 1 mass killing of 58 people in Las Vegas: "MORE COMING YOUR WAY ….."
"Better watch out for these people," read another note sent to the White House a week later in one of the writer's frequent references to a network he called the Unstoppable Force. "They are planning to do it for the next concert, just like the Las Vegas shooting … big gun and pipe bomb."
But by then investigators had closed in on a 34-year-old man who recently moved from Minnesota to the Sacramento area, where he worked long hours at a distribution center for a cracker company. Before agents arrested him, Kao Xiong allegedly wrote more than 150 letters, some of which contained white powder later tested to be flour.
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