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To: Ranger
Didn't the press report last fall that the Florida anthrax was not highly refined, unlike the DC and NY variety? Yet according to this it seems that the Fla sample was, in fact, very capable of being suspended in air..
13 posted on 09/15/2002 12:33:51 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: cookcounty
Didn't the press report last fall that the Florida anthrax was not highly refined, unlike the DC and NY variety?

There have been contradictory reports on that. The fact that Stevens got inhalation anthrax and that the anthrax was widely distributed (even if it hopped a ride on a mail cart or copy paper ream) tell you it was weaponized, unlike the brown, granular anthrax sent to the NYC media outlets, which caused only non-life-threatening cutaneous anthrax. That is, in itself, rather remarkable, because it makes AMI even more of an odd-man out in the media-directed letter campaign. Why send lethal anthrax to a Boca Raton tabloid, but innocuous granular anthrax to the New York media? I believe the resolution to that question is provided by the fact that the AMI hit was a completely separate leg of the anthrax campaign -- it came from the 9-11 hijackers themselves, and was mailed before 9-11 as a kind of sick joke calling card from Mr. Atta. The two New Jersey waves were to remind us that the sleepers are still here, and they still have "THIS ANTHRAX."

18 posted on 09/15/2002 12:56:48 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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