[Alamo-Girl]

Ok, then - this is quite a stretch but perhaps the terrorist sent the can to mean "we are going to snuff (kill)" and the cigar to mean "the president (a Clinton metaphor.")

[Nogbad]

This may be a bit far out, but the cigar brand may have been "Casa Blanca"
with the band still on it.

In which case the cigar stands for the president
and also the White House
which they probably were hoping to 'take out'.

(Also fits in with with the Spanish Jennifer Lopez theme)

[Mitchell]

Ok, then - this is quite a stretch but perhaps the terrorist sent the can to mean "we are going to snuff (kill)" and the cigar to mean "the president (a Clinton metaphor.")

Maybe it's something like that. But this seems perhaps a bit steeped in the American culture and the English language. Mohamed Atta is the same person who was so unfamiliar with our ways that he thought he could walk into Johnelle Bryant's office and walk out with a $650,000 government loan in cash on the spot to buy a cropduster with.

It's hard to tell with these speculations though -- they're all pretty far-out. But so were the items in the Jennifer Lopez letter.

In any event, can you think of a reason that would they be making an allusion to Clinton, rather than Bush?