You're TAGGED!

By Pakac Luteb

I'm writing this in response to the bullet (actually a cartridge) in
the post received by Tony
Pua.

This is an update to my earlier writing on this type of incident, that
earlier writing is below
in quotation marks.

I'm not writing on the merits of the excellent idea of Tony Pua, they
are obvious.

I'm writing on something that might not be widely known outside the
law enforcement community.

For a long time, law enforcement faced a difficult obstacle in cases
where explosives had been used. Obviously, a lot of the evidence had
been destroyed.

Then some genius whose name and company are not relevant to this
letter had a great idea.

They devised "taggants" for explosives. The taggants are microscopic
coloured bits of plastic that can survive an explosion. Taggants can
be added to C4, Semtex, high-velocity smokeless gunpowder, etc.

Taggants can reveal manufacturer, lot number, batch number and thus be
used to suggest a suspect.

Another way of tracing explosives is by their chemical
characteristics, such as isotope content.

Do people lick envelopes and postage stamps anymore? If they do, they
are sending the recipient of the letter a nice big fat sample of DNA.

So, ladies and gentlemen, if you get a bullet in the post, keep quiet,
the culprit may think it's

lost in the post and obligingly send you another. Then send for
testing, one at a time.

If you still keep quiet, what's the culprit gonna do? Send by courier?
Nah, there's a "paper

trail". Send by hand? CCTV will record the delivery.

I hope you read my earlier writing, below.

Pakac Luteb

The below is old, really old, but i think it's not yet basi:

"i refer to the recent news that the Honourable Karpal Singh received a
threatening letter and bullets in the post.

if I were Karpal, here's what i'd do:

the sender would not know i'd received the letter, if i kept quiet
about the matter. if i said nothing about it, the sender may assume
the letter became lost in the post.

thus i'd keep quiet about the matter, until i had:

examine the letter and envelope for DNA.

examine the letter and envelope for fingerprints.

examine the bullets for fingerprints.

kindly refer:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/21331/page1/
and also see
http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6723

determine the type (jacketed/unjacketed, hollow point, etc.), calibre
and manufacturer of the bullets, who such bullets were sold to and
what type of gun they are used in.

see who owns/uses such type of gun.

try to determine where and when the letter was posted.

try to match the handwriting to any known person.

only then would i make a police report.

if i had identified the sender of the letter, i could go after them.
the hunter becomes the hunted. the sender would be very surprised to
find me at their door!

in the case of Altantuya, perhaps the above technique of finding
fingerprints on metal objects, such as bullets and guns, could be
employed to find who fired the shots that killed her.

it might also be used on any other bullets found in the jungle
clearing, as other humans remains was found there.

shooting someone can be a messy business. certainly a car is not the
preferred venue, as the dripped and spattered blood has to be cleaned
up, because it's incriminating evidence.

the jungle clearing is a more likely venue for killing."