Posted on 03/28/2002 9:10:04 PM PST by knak
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Why do you think they need to be remailed in New Jersey?
You do know this sort of thing is normal - it happens all the time! Single-piece rate First-Class Mail pays the highest price per pound - it gets poor service.
But you knew that didn't you?
The terrorists thought this stuff would all be delivered Monday or Tuesday.
It wasn't!
I don't know, but I don't think that's relevant.
They probably would not have made reservations
too long in advance,
in order not to arouse suspicions.
(Though it is clear now,
that the authorities were not competent enough
to check up on such coincidental bookings.)
Because the letters received by Dashchle and others had New Jersey postmarks. If they had been sent from Florida they would have had Florida postmarks. The Boca Raton facility was only one post office to have been contaminated; the others included D.C. area facilities (postal worker deaths) and NYC.
I'm not following your reasoning here.
I think you are very wrong,
however,
I defer to Keri,
if she wishes
to join this discussion.
Many buisnesses in the States which have European offices use A4 paper for documents which will require fax transmission. That way their paper matches the receivers paper and reduction or compression is not required.
If you have ever purchased a first day of issue envelope, it could be postmarked for anywhere in the US, but odds are it was physically present in the salt mines at Kansas City (where they do the cancellation).
What we have here is a small mailing of a handful of envelopes simply tossed into some collection boxes in Florida on a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon (when there is very little mail entered).
USPS puts large trays called "flat trays" in the bottoms of collection boxes. The collections driver pulls them out and places them in the back of his truck as he taps the boxes for mail.
If Mr. Atta dropped the envelopes in several different boxes, we have a situation where a couple of envelopes are in a large tray. The tray is stacked on top of another tray, and another tray is placed inside it - and on and on until we get a stack of trays.
These trays look like they are EMPTY.
Since empty equipment tends to pile up in South Florida, it gets shipped back North. It's stacked up on a pallet and then shrinkwrapped to hold it together for shipment. Mostly empty MTE, or empty mail transport equipment is shipped North to Washington BMC, Philadelphia BMC and the Bulk and Foreign facility in New York Metro.
From there it is sent to large mailers or post offices needing MTE.
As the empty trays are pulled off the stack to be used for new mail to be sent to the post office, any stray Single Piece Rate First Class Mail will be found by the employees (postal or private) and sent over to the dispatch area. The mail will then travel to the post office in a tray thereby bypassing the collection boxes or letter drops at the main office or in stations and branches.
The pieces postmarked in New Jersey DID NOT CONTAMINATE any collection boxes, letter drops or mailboxes anywhere in New Jersey. That means the letters arrived at the Hamilton Twp. facility in a letter tray ready for cancellation at 010.
This also means that the letters probably were in a stack of trays sent to a large private mailer in the area. Since the letters actually were postmarked, that means the mailer happened not to have handled them on his equipment. This is a sign they were identified as "nixies" or "slugs" by his employees. This information was not passed on to the post office which is why the letters were sent through the cancellation machines. This forced some of the anthrax out through the "wings" in the envelopes and led to serious contamination.
The letter carrier there got her anthrax directly from one of the flat trays. They are used by carriers to carry or tote mail from their work stations to their vehicles for delivery. It was just a case of bad luck.
There are fewer mysteries in this than you can believe. The FBI ran after myths and rumors. They should have asked USPS mail processing system analysts what might have happened and then counseled their investigation accordingly. Instead the FBI investigators believed they knew how the USPS works, and unfortunately counseled their investigation with a layman's knowledge.
While the FBI was digging up mailboxes in New Jersey, they did nothing to pursue evidence in Florida.
Others posting here recall my story has been consistent since day one. All evidence uncovered since the attack on AMI was first reported tends to support my thesis.
And my printer is readily set to handle it, as is my photocopy machine!
Isn't this amazing - that USAian people have European size paper laying around?
I forgot about that. Mohamed Atta is said to have attempted to visit a prisoner in Tarragona Prison in northeastern Spain, in July, 2001. He also is said to have met with Islamic extremists at the nearby Mediterranean resort town of Salou. This was Atta's last known trip to Europe. I don't know who the prisoner was. I wonder if there's a connection with the Basque separatist movement and/or with Arizmendi?
There is one point of confusion about this trip. The prison visit was said to be on July 21, but his itinerary shows that he returned to the U.S. on July 19, so something doesn't quite jibe here (but it could just be a minor mistake in one of the dates).
Here are some more details on Atta's whereabouts at the time. He was in Las Vegas from June 29 to July 1. I don't know where he was for the next few days, but he might have been in Washington, DC, since there's a reference to him being in Washington sometime in July. On July 7, he flew to Spain, renting a car and driving to Salou in the northeast part of the country, One report suggests that he may also have met with Iraqi intelligence agent Habib Faris Abdullah al-Mamouri in Rome in July. He would have visited the Tarragona Prison towards the end of his trip, then driven (to Madrid?) to catch his July 19(?) flight back to the U.S.
A Czech source has been keeping tabs on a Czech Intel site in New York. He indicates that Semtex and Anthrax had been given to some of the Al-Qeada in Prague.
The source feels that Atta had gotten the anthrax in the Czech Republic. From who is the big question. Because no one is following up on the anthrax cases in the Czech Republic, a comparison between the anthrax there and the Ames strain can not be made.
The link between the anthrax case in Chile, the Czech Republic and the U.S. has to be investigated to bring more answers to the questions on the Iraq link.
He had contacts there.
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