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11/13/09

FBI received letter warning that Roeder was threat to Tiller by Judy Thomas from the Kansas City Star

FBI received letter warning that Roeder was threat to Tiller


The month before Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down, the FBI received a letter warning authorities that Scott Roeder was a threat to Tiller and other abortion providers, agency officials said Friday.

The letter, written in April and sent anonymously to the Kansas City FBI office, said that Roeder “has the potential to be a domestic terrorist” and that “given the right opportunity he would do physical harm to Dr. Tiller and any other abortionist he would come across.”

But FBI spokesman Joel Sealer said Friday that the agency determined that the letter contained no specific or credible threats.

Tiller was killed May 31 while ushering in his church. Roeder of Kansas City was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 11.

The Pennsylvania man who wrote the letter said he did so because he was hoping the FBI would question Roeder and put him on a “no-fly” list for terrorists. That allegedly was done to prevent Roeder from making visits to see a child Roeder fathered with a woman the Pennsylvania man later married. Roeder had been in a custody dispute for years over the child.

The man provided his letter to The Kansas City Star, and the FBI confirmed its existence.

| Judy L. Thomas, jthomas@kcstar.com

Posted on Fri, Nov. 13, 2009 10:39 PM
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