Man Arrested Over Sending HIV-Inflected Blood To Obama
Sky News: Saad Hussein, an Ethiopian refugee in his late 20s, sent a number of items to the offices of the Illinois government in the weeks before the US President’s inauguration, according to court documents.
One envelope contained a letter with reddish stains and an admission ticket for Mr Obama’s election night celebration in Grant Park, Chicago. Court documents claim Hussein told FBI agents he is “very sick with HIV” and cut his fingers with a razor so he could bleed on the letter.
Hazardous materials teams were called in after the envelope addressed to “Barack Obama” was opened. Days after the first letter was sent, Hussein allegedly placed two more letters in the mail, one addressed to “Emanuel”, an apparent reference to the President’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. The two letters contained what appeared to be dried blood, the court documents said.
Hussein, who is being treated for a mental illness, was arrested last month. An affidavit filed at the time accused him of “knowingly” posting letters “containing HIV-infected blood, with the intent to kill or injure another.”
