Following the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan, President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials warned that even if al Qaeda was not poised to launch a major retaliatory attack, an increased threat from “homegrown extremists” exists.
That threat seems to have caught the public’s attention with almost a dozen suspicious packages reported across the nation since the news of bin Laden’s death was announced late Sunday.
