Posted on 09/05/2002 1:32:45 PM PDT by Shermy
I really would like to know what was in that letter. Too bad the FBI told the folks at AMI to keep their mouths shut about it--even though it's not connected with the anthrax attack in any way, of course.
This is the basis of your claim that the AMI letter was hand-delivered? If anthrax was indeed found in the lobby, I suppose one might logically deduce it may have been hand-delivered.
Not quibbling. Just confirming...
There is another more practical reason for the detergent carton.
In this case the terrorists probably wanted to kill people.
The detergent box was added to mislead the recipients
as to the real nature of the powder enclosed.
The person who came up with the idea is the former Freeper "Right to Defend"
who has a Ph.D. in Physics,
and used to contribute a lot of extremely useful information
to the Free Republic anthrax threads
which are by far the best on the Web.
"Right to Defend" was banned and no reasons for this ever were given to him.
IMHO, much is already known about the anthrax attacks - but little can be made public at this time. I look for new disclosures just before we oust Saddam.
Before the intriguing "All" idea, and motivated by Atta's 9/11 rebus, I had suggested that perhaps the included items were arranged to form a "911" rebus - just like "two sticks, a dash, and a cake with a stick down". The circular tin and the cigar would form the 9, and I suggested that maybe the detergent box chosen had a prominent 11 on it. Then somebody pointed out that the "All" logo has the double-l that looks like an 11.
It would be of interest to ask someone who saw the detergent box whether it was a box of All and, if so, whether the "a" of "all" was cut out or crossed out. This explanation, although obviously very speculative, explains all the objects in the letter (except the Star of David, which needs no further explanation).
At first I was sceptical about the JLo = MAL letter
but it's beginning to make a certain peculiar sense.
What evidence is there that the description of events on this tape is real?
I think all the information on this tape (names of hijackers, their places of birth, etc.) was pieced together from FBI reports and from what has appeared in the media. Is there anything new, or is there any respect in which the facts as given differ from those which we have been believing? (For instance, the FBI could have gotten a place of birth wrong. Or al-Qaeda could have gotten one wrong. In any case, there would have been some differences, if they weren't relying on the FBI and the Western media as their source.)
There is strong evidence that there were other hijackings planned for 9/11 which were thwarted due to the grounding of all aviation. This isn't mentioned on the tape -- in fact the very opposite is implied (with bin Laden holding up a finger for each hijacking, only going up to four). There is strong evidence that many of the hijackers were traveling on false identities; the false identities were used on the tape, even though the individuals involved are dead and need no further protection.
Moreover, I think that the individuals who are listed without a place of birth are the same ones as those for whom no place of birth is listed in the media accounts after 9/11. I haven't gone through the names in detail, so there might be some exceptions here, but a casual perusal does indicate this.
In short, I think this description of bin Laden and his cohorts on 9/11 is probably pure propaganda. And there's no great surprise in that.
It was described in the media as a can of chewing tobacco, but I'm told that chewing tobacco doesn't come in cans, that it must have been either snuff or smokeless tobacco.
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