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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."

People are obviously desperate to try to contend any of the letters were mailed before 9/11, but it simply doesn't wash.

The pre-stamped envelopes used are bought in packs of five. There are two known letters from the 9/18 mailing, the NY Post and the NBC letter, and three letters that were lost; CBS, ABC, and, presumably, AMI.

Bob Stevens didn't even BEGIN to feel sick till 9/30. This is perfectly consistent with a 9/18 mailing to AMI.

Interesting thing about the AMI business is that it was MUCH longer after 9/11 than people seem to remember; I think a lot of people THINK that it was the week after 9/11; ACTUALLY it wasn't announced Stevens had Anthrax till 10/3.

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."

So if it was the 9/11 hijackers, why did they do everything possible to kill as FEW people as possible with the anthrax they had?