Posted on 10/13/2006 3:46:10 PM PDT by Shermy
You will find one or more such boxes in every commercial district. No one is watching them after hours. Besides, no one is going to be concerned if a carload of Arabs pulls up to a street collection box and drops in a letter (before 9/11).
The Freeper you refer to was probably The Great Satan.
Personally, I think he may have been right. He got a lot of opposition for his ideas on FR, and eventually might have lost his temper over it. I never read the posts that got him banned, but I thought he brought a lot interesting ideas to the table.
The FBI (and the U.S. government as a whole) would certainly not have wanted to panic the U.S. population, so they would have had a motive to insist it was a home grown source.
The best argument AGAINST Saddam's involvement is that the spores were supposedly not that difficult to make. The FBI seems to have reversed itself and now says it was "simple", so the odds that it was "home grown" have gone up (unless you believe the FBI is lying). But even if it was "simple", it does not rule out Saddam. I remain skeptical.
Plus, major mail generation (and mail collection) operations occur BEFORE 7 PM Friday evening. USPS doesn't even process mail on Sunday although it does fly it around the country, or dispatch it on trucks.
People do not mail much stuff on the weekends. It's easy for the handful of pieces entered late on a Friday evening (after last prayers at the mosque) to get lost for a few days ~ in fact, the system is virtually designed to ensure that this happens!
My thesis is that everything happened normally, and that the terrorists could not possibly have anticipated things going down this way.
Blanco worked the mailroom. Stephanie opened some letters. But Bob Stevens had nothing to do with the mailroom. It's Stevens that the letter theory doesn't fit.
Sure, the anthrax *could* have been sent via a letter (though no such letter was ever found), but it could also have come in through tainted cash.
Cash follows funny paths that could easily have crossed by all three AMI employees.
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Provided he had access to a BL4 lab.
1. NOT America's most important newspapers, and
2. They ARE, on the other hand, extremely influential, particularly with people with limited skills in English.
It's not even a class thing ~ more cultural.
Don't sniff the mail.
But regardless of whether or not I'm right about this, from the beginning it never made one iota of sense that a sophisticated American scientist who presumably lives and/or works somewhere in the northeast corridor would for some strange reason choose THAT place to send an anthrax letter to, along with Congress and some major media outlets.
It only makes sense for an attack to be made on AMI inc. if you are a funny little foreign guy who has noticed that his copy of Star was published by AMI.
"But regardless of whether or not I'm right about this, from the beginning it never made one iota of sense that a sophisticated American scientist who presumably lives and/or works somewhere in the northeast corridor would for some strange reason choose THAT place to send an anthrax letter to, along with Congress and some major media outlets."
I'm with you right there. Why on earth choose tabloids that run stories about Dolly Parton giving birth to aliens to send your anthrax powder to? A US scientist or insider just doesn't do that. And then there's the JLo letter - beyond bizarre! Why choose to write JLo's name on a letter full of anthrax? Of course, Ed Lake simply denies that the JLo letter did contain anthrax. But what are the chances of a letter containing pink colored powder to arrive at AMI the same week as another real anthrax letter? Note PINK colored powder, not white. Guess what color anthrax powder is often described as being?
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1005-02.htm
The anthrax buried on Vozrozhdeniye Island is a pink powder that was designed specifically to infect humans.
And there was a person, not sure if he was a hijacker, or a friend of the hijackers that had a subscription to one of their publications in SPANISH.
I can see them checking the wrong box.
But you are right....lots of pictures, maybe they even learned some English from reading the thing.
The lone male American scientist would only think of the NYT and the AMI building if he used darts on encyclopedias.
I don't "simply deny" it. I provide the facts and evidence which clearly says that J-Lo letter did NOT contain anthrax:
1. According to AMI's #1 newspaper, The National Enquirer, the J-Lo letter was opened on the third floor. According to the CDC, the third floor is the least contaminated floor in the building. The link to their report is HERE.
2. Bobby Bender, who is the person who opened the J-Lo letter, was not one of those contaminated by anthrax.
3. Bender carried the opened J-Lo letter all around the third floor, yet that floor was the least contaminated floor and he was not contaminated.
4. Stephanie Dailey, the person who opened the REAL anthrax letter and was contaminated by the REAL anthrax letter, was on vacation when the J-Lo letter was opened, so she could not have been contaminated by the J-Lo letter.
5. The area where Stephanie Daily opened the REAL anthrax letter was the MOST contaminated area in the AMI building.
For anyone to believe the J-Lo letter contained anthrax, they must totally ignore the FACTS.
Ed
There's one problem with that theory. The diagrams of the three floors of the AMI building do not show any place for printing presses. It seems pretty clear that the actual newspapers were printed elsewhere.
Ed
No anthrax letter was ever recovered from Stephanie's mail, or Bob Steven's mail, or from any AMI mail.
It is therefore **undetermined** if the AMI infections were from the mail. Infections can come from other sources (e.g. cash, contact with the terrorists, etc.).
There was and is no known "real anthrax letter" sent to AMI.
Unknown. Stevens could have made change for someone inside the AMI building. Or lost a bet. Or paid a debt. Or handed out cash for someone to go grab donuts for the Office. Or any of a thousand different ways for his tainted cash to have crossed several AMI employees' hands.
Incredible, you cite the CDC article as your authority that the JLo letter didn't contain anthrax, and yet that article concludes it DID contain anthrax! You should work for the FBI. I seem to remember they recently published a paper citing an article in Science magazine as authority that the spores contained no additives, when the Science article actually stated the spores DID contain additives. And we all know the FBI lab's reputation for honesty and integrity.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no10/02-0354.htm
The index patient’s infection most likely occurred from inhalation of B. anthracis spores following a primary aerosolization, i.e., spores released into the air after opening a spore-containing letter. This scenario is consistent with co-workers’ recollections that the index patient held a letter containing powder over his computer keyboard, as well as environmental samples showing contamination at his keyboard, an incoming-mail desk near his workspace, and his mailroom mailbox.
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