[Bobby777]

does anyone recall how soon after 9/11 the anthrax mailings started showing up? ... I was so engrossed with the WTC, Pentagon and Flight 93 that I don't remember ...

the reason I ask is I'm wondering if somebody capitalized on 9/11 or whether there were additional links ...

[flamefront]

I believe it was seven days after 9/11/02. Certainly no more than 2 weeks.

[flamefront]

The four recovered anthrax letters were postmarked on Sept. 18 and Oct. 9 in Trenton.

[John H K]

There is no evidence that any letters were mailed prior to 9/18, a week after the 9/11 attacks. The earliest known letters (2) all have 9/18 postmarks. Prior to the mailing of the letters it had already been made known in the media where many of the hijackers lived in Florida.

Contrary to the claim of the article, the J Lo letter is largely considered a red herring. It seems the actual AMI letter was probably lost, as were the letters to a few other places in NYC.

Actually, it turns out the first people to have anthrax symptoms were from 9/18 letters sent to NYC, cutaneous symptoms that were unrecognized, BEFORE Stevens got sick in Florida.

And, of course, does one really think that AQ would go out of its way to kill as FEW people as possible with the letters? In envelopes with warnings that anthrax was contained in them? The same people that had killed as many people as they could in the 9/11 attacks? (And that's leaving aside the issue that dead men can't mail letters; of course some mysterious co-conspirator that didn't participate in the attacks could have mailed them.)

[Wolfstar]

Does anyone recall how soon after 9/11 the anthrax mailings started showing up?

Actually, contemporaneous news reports said AMI employees recalled that the first anthrax letter arrived about the 8th of September 2001. The man who was the first fatality (from AMI in South Florida) began feeling sick around the last week of September — or about two weeks after 9/11.

In addition, there is solid, if circumstantial evidence that connects Atta and his gang to AMI and possibly the anthrax. They rented an apartment from the real-estate-agent wife of the head of AMI. They took flight lessons in the same vicinity as AMI. Atta and one of the other hijackers sought medical help for symptoms that appeared to be chemical burns. One sought treatment for a black lesion on his leg. The doctor who treated him believed the lesion was caused by an anthrax infection.

There is no question that someone continued the mailings after Atta and his known gang died in 9/11 attacks. But it is not unreasonable, given the known evidence, that Atta's gang began the mailings in South Florida just days before the hijackings. It would mean that there is at least one unknown member of Atta's gang who finished the mailings and who, in all likelihood, is still alive; possibly even still in the U.S.