Ashraf Ali, sender of October 2001 white powder hoax letters to jewish organizations and a media organization in the UK saying “All Jews Die”, “World Trade Centre” and “Pentagon” pleads guilty.
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=60389&ATypeId=1
Ashraf Ali was caught six years later when forensic experts matched his DNA to samples found on the letters.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Man-faces-jail-for-campaign.4135928.jp
He had included pictures and annotated them.
Each year, for the past decade, there have been many hundreds of hoax letters. In November 2001 (as I recall) there was a letter to Senator Daschle. Proponents of a Hatfill Theory thought a letter from England while Hatfill was at a conference there in November dovetailed nicely with a Hatfill theory. But why, after sending the real thing, would he then send a hoax letter from a country where he had just quite publicly traveled? While the relevance of that November hoax letter would depend on the details (which have not been disclosed), in broad outline it did not fit a Hatfill Theory. He would have had no reason to draw attention to himself in that way.
From The Sunday Times
January 2, 2005
Al-Qaeda seeks toxins for biowarfare attack
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Other US officials suspect Bin Laden may be planting his acolytes in university science departments in the same way that he sent the September 11 hijackers to US flying schools.
“This is a guy who thinks long-term,” said one senior Washington source. “We have to learn to think like him.”
Suspicion that Bin Laden is increasingly focusing on WMD was heightened by reports last October that he had sought permission from a well-known Saudi Arabian theologian for an attack that would cause mass American casualties.
Bin Laden’s approach is said to have resulted in the publication of a religious decree entitled “Rules for the use of WMD against the infidels”. It was issued by Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al-Fahd, who is currently under arrest in Riyadh.
Not all scientists believe a group such as Al-Qaeda will ever master biowarfare technologies. The main fear is that a rogue scientist may be prepared to sell his expertise.
“The people that I worry about are the lone operators, the scientist who is disgruntled, deranged or just bought off,” said Raymond Zilinskas, a Pentagon biowarfare consultant at the California-based Centre for Non-proliferation Studies.
“The probability of you or I dying from a terrorist bioweapon is smaller than our being eaten by a shark, but that is not to say we shouldn’t worry about it.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article407762.ece
“The Message”
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=B96F2B28348E11DD9517000423CEF5B0