The Suspicious Package Fairy Has Come to Atlanta [Updated]

The suspicious package fairy has dropped a present at the Israeli Consulate in downtown Atlanta today. Atlanta commuters are advised by local media to avoid Spring Street between 14th an 10th–which as a Metro area resident I can tell you is often a pretty heavily travelled zone.

What’s interesting about the location of the mysterious parcel (which could be some Georgia Tech student’s forgotten backpack, for all we know) is the Israeli Consulate here has been in the news lately, condemning the incendiary words of Atlanta Jewish Times owner and publisher Andrew Adler, who published a column that included a hypothetical situation in which the Israeli Mossad might assassinate the U.S. president in order to protect Israel’s right to defend itself from Iranian aggression.

Adler’s column was pointed out by Gawker and it was all downhill from there. He has quit the paper and is seeking to sell it, stating in an email obtained by another paper that he was “relinquishing all day-to-day activities” involving the AJT’s publication. Though Adler has made it clear he regrets his words, he is also under Secret Service investigation.

All that said, the suspicious package, like nearly every suspicious package found in the United States each day (one was found in San Francisco earlier today), is probably nothing at all. I hope so–my wife teaches at a Jewish school so if someone maniac was targeting Jewish locations in Atlanta, that’d make me pretty tense.

[UPDATE: As I suspected would happen, there are reports coming across Twitter that the package is, uh, no longer suspicious, as in no big deal.]

[11alive.com]

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