Posted on 02/24/2009 11:52:38 AM PST by Justice Department
Investigators are trying to determine who sent a suspicious letter to a Boca Raton publishing company that was targeted in 2001 in a deadly anthrax attack.
Friday the offices of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Inquirer, the Sun, Star magazine and other grocery store tabloids, were evacuated for about 45 minutes after a letter containing a white powder arrived at the company. Police were able to determine the powder was harmless.
Sun photo editor Bob Stevens, 63, died in October 2001 was the first fatality from the anthrax attacks that killed four others and harmed 17 from Florida to Connecticut. The letters containing anthrax powder were sent on the heels of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and turned up at congressional offices, newsrooms and elsewhere, leaving a deadly trail through post offices on the way. The powder killed five, sent numerous victims to hospitals and caused near panic in many locations.
The man suspected of sending the anthrax laced letters, former Army scientist Bruce Ivins, committed suicide in 2008.
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It looks like the beginning plot of a "pay me (us)" shakedown.
I keep thinking of the pattern of the DC snipers.
The creepy kid had just begun classes in Florida but was a no show at school on the day that Steven's death was announced....and his whereabouts appear to be "unknown" for about the next two weeks. The next thing we know, he's in California.
Why so?
It’s curled at the end.....no straight bar. I don’t know anyone who does that. I might guess “not educated at an early age in America” and hold it as a “big clue”.
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