John Huang2 said in a reply to something I posted that the anthrax letter that landed in the New York Times Rio office was postmarked September 8. That will destroy the "domestic nutter" theories that may be out there regarding the media attacks.
The Times, citing Brazilian authorities, said that preliminary tests suggested spores consistent with anthrax were found on the letter. But a laboratory working for the government later said two tests had turned up nothing. "There is no anthrax bacillus detected after two basic tests of bacteriology and culture," said Paulo Buss, president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil's leading biochemical and research laboratory.
He said the laboratory had tested 60 suspicious letters and found no evidence of anthrax
Heres the link to the AP story:here