Suspicious package and note found at Ft Benning

There’s a link on Drudge to a short article on Breitbart about a suspicious note and a package that were discovered at Fort Benning yesterday.

Bob Purtiman says a soldier found the note and package Thursday morning in an outdoor gazebo. The soldier immediately told a supervisor, who called 911.

Purtiman would not say what was in the note or what was in the package.

He said authorities are investigating whether there is a viable threat against Fort Benning. He says security measures have been heightened in the meantime.

UPI quotes an unidentified source;

The unidentified source said the box, with 20 bullets, and a handwritten note were found in a motor pool area on the Army base Thursday, the Times reported Saturday.

“The note said, ‘Tell the commanding general to call off all charges or there will be a re-enactment of Fort Hood,'” the witness told the newspaper.

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer says General Petraeus is in town, too;

Discovery of the package came on the same day Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Columbus for Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School graduation of 152 new second lieutenants at the Columbus Convention Center.

Of course, this also happens to be the weekend that School of the Americas Watch has camped outside the gates of Benning to protest the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as “School of the Americas”.

The members of SOAW are the biggest freaking liars on the face of this planet along with all of the rest of the sheep who buy into their lies. I don’t put it past the little drama queens to make threats against soldiers stationed at Benning to cultivate a little attention. The IVAW is also known to participate with these protests at Benning along with the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military issues