'Jihad Boom' Postcards Mailed To Schools Feature Threatening Cartoons (FL)

LOCAL 6 ^ | September 17, 2007 | unattributed

[Rick.Donaldson]

Actually, Europeans tend to cross sevens. In fact, in the United States, Amateur radio operators also cross their sevens and zeros, because when you’re copying morse code traffic (or even voice) it helps to differentiate between Oh and Zero. And a lot of people make a ONE that looks like a Seven.

[TheKidster]

It’s a hoax

[Velveeta]

A couple of Disney postcards in there too.

[TornadoAlley3]

October 10 surprise or just a kid’s prank?

[fatima]

Bump to save my place.

[Sender]

I didn't know they taught this in US schools. I stand corrected.

A handwriting analyst could probably tell a lot about the characteristics of the person who sent them.

[PGalt]

BTTT!

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping velveeta.

[Velveeta]

[RDTF]

geez.

[Calpernia]

Yes, it was on an Egyptian Calendar.

StillProud, do you have that picture scanned in?

[TheKidster]

while we were asking what our schools are doing to protect from this sort of thing. Apparently.. nothing

No they are making sure NOBODY has a weapon anywhere on school grounds, makes it easier for the cops to wait until everything is over to go in and clean up after the criminals. Us dumb citizens might accidentally shoot someone other than the terrorist if we were trusted to protect ourselves and children while the police hide behind trees as with VA Tech.

[Calpernia]

Oh, thank you. Never mind, Vel had it!

[DocRock]

bookmark

[Sender]

Some hits on the date 10-10 from Wikipedia:

10-10-680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.

10-10-732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.

10-10-1933 - United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

10-10-1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.

[BigBobber]

Anyone see a handwriting resemblance to the anthrax letters? Probably worth a comparison.

[donna]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/564535/posts#3

[steveyp]

Angry white male. Possibly Methodist. Owns gun.

[HungarianGypsy]

The crossed sevens could mean they went to school in Europe or they just copied European writing. I cross my sevens and was born and raised in the U.S. No. I am nowhere near Florida and I have no reason to make bomb threats.

[Greg F]

10-10-680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi’a Muslims as Aashurah.
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I looked this up. It’s a day of fasting, Iran, Pakistan. Makes it less likely to be just a bunch of Beavis and Butthead kids writing these.