It wasn’t just New Mexico’s governor that was a target for the white powder that was sent to his office. As scary as it was, this incident was not confined to New Mexico. White powder (found to be harmless) was sent to “more than 40 U.S. governors offices and at 15 U.S. embassies in Europe” according to Agence France Presse (AFP):

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State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said the envelopes were mailed to embassies in Berlin, Berne, Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Luxembourg, Madrid , Oslo, Paris, Riga, Rome, Stockholm, Tallinn, and The Hague.

In the New Mexico case, twelve people were quarantined when the white powder was discovered.

The first thought, of course, is anthrax after the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people. Those attacks happened in a similar fashion but were sent to the offices of several news media outlets as well as two Democratic U.S. senators.