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  • noun Alternative form of letter bomb.

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Examples

  • If you recieved a letterbomb, would you consider yourself the victim of a ‘protest’ or ‘terrorism’.

    Police Need Intelligence Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • So if Dr. Brazen Hussy and Geeka are brave enough to email me their real addresses, a letterbomb postcard will be soon be on its slow and international way to each of you.

    Thus spake Geekman StyleyGeek 2007

  • So if Dr. Brazen Hussy and Geeka are brave enough to email me their real addresses, a letterbomb postcard will be soon be on its slow and international way to each of you.

    Archive 2007-06-01 StyleyGeek 2007

  • National Party leader F W de Klerk was morally responsible for the letterbomb which severely injured anti-apartheid activist Father Michael Lapsley on the eve of historic talks between the ANC and the government in April 1990, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • National Party leader FW de Klerk must take political responsibility for the near-fatal letterbomb attack on cleric and anti-apartheid activist Michael Lapsley in Harare in April 1990, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was told on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Former anti-apartheid activist Michael Lapsley, who lost both his hands in a 1990 letterbomb explosion, will be among the first to testify when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reconvenes in Kimberley on Monday after a two week break.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Lapsley lost both hands to a letterbomb posted by South African security agents when he was chaplain to the African National

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • "That we have come this far is the fruit of the tremendous sacrifices that so many people have made," said Lapsley, who lost his hands and one eye to a letterbomb sent by agents of the apartheid government in April 1990.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Topics included "how to make a letterbomb" and "how to enter countries illegally".

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • But to be truthful my wife has gone to bed this evening dreadfully worried that we're going to end up with a letterbomb or something from some hatefilled atheist.

    Pharyngula 2008

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