[Khan Noonian Singh]

<< It's possible the mailers said (of Stevens' murder): "That ought to get their attention !" >>

Looks like they were waiting for media reports of the Florida attack before mailing the letters to the Senators. The letters to Leahy & Daschle were mailed as soon as practical after the 5 October news reports of Stevens' death.

Whosoever did them, the anthrax mailings were a two-phase covert op. Phase One: AMI, also New York Post, NBC, CBS, ABC. Phase Two: Leahy and Daschle.

Phase One in a 2-stage op is a set-up phase, and AMI was crucial in that set-up. It put people in a certain frame-of-mind desired by the mailers.

The mailers waited for that frame-of-mind to be established before launching Phase Two. Their aim: the weaponised anthrax of Phase Two was to be interpreted in the context construited by Phase One.

[genefromjersey]

This brings up an interesting question: Did the mailers know in advance about 9/11 -and launch this attack as part of a second strike.....OR Did the mailers have anthrax (stolen from a US lab ??) on hand at the time of 9/11,and decide to take advantage of 9/11: further disguising their true motivation* by incorporating "Islamic-sounding" letters ?

*Some possible motives: Punishment of the administration for refusal to sign a BW limitation agreement;destabilization of the administration for political reasons,etc.,etc.

[John Faust]

Phase One in a 2-stage op is a set-up phase, and AMI was crucial in that set-up. It put people in a certain frame-of-mind desired by the mailers.

Is this just a general comment or are you thinking of something specific? What frame of mind do you mean?