[Wolfstar]

Actually, John, the first letter, which went to American Media in Florida, was never recovered. Physical, eyewitness and other evidence builds a strong circumstantial case that the 9/11 hijackers were tied to at least that first letter. Examples:

• According to published accounts from AMA employees, the letter that went to AMA was a rant against a female celebrity. It had a brownish white power in the envelope along with an inexpensive Star of David. It arrived during the week of September 8th. The letter was discarded.
• It was mailed in South Florida, where some postal facilities later tested positive for traces of anthrax.
• The two people from AMA who got sick, began showing symptoms toward the end of September. The approximate 3-week span between when the letter arrived and the men began getting sick is well within the known anthrax incubation range.
• Approximately two months earlier, one of the men who would become a 9/11 hijacker visited a doctor in Florida for a black lesion — on one of his legs, I believe. The doctor, who treated the lesion with antibiotics, later told both police and the media that he was certain the lesion was cutaneous anthrax.
• Also in the month or so leading up to 9/11, Mohammed Atta and another man who would become a hijacker, visited a pharmacy in South Florida. The second man asked the pharmacist for something that would help a severe skin irritation of his hands, which the pharmacist said were extremely red.
• In the vicinity of AMA, Atta inquired about learning how to fly crop dusters.
• Atta rented an apartment from the real-estate-agent wife of the head of AMA.

In other words, the 9/11 hijackers had motive, opportunity, proximity to, and personal knowledge of the scene of the first anthrax attack. In the same general vicinity as where the first letter was mailed, two sought some medical treatment for severe skin problems, and the leader sought knowledge of an aerial means of chemical delivery. Circumstantial, yes. Impossible to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, perhaps. But there are just too many "coincidences" placing the first anthrax letter and the hijackers mighty close to each other for my tastes.

[polemikos]

Anthrax = Islamic Terrorism

Any scenario other than Islamic terrorism means ALL of the following are just coincidences.

SERIOUS CONNECTIONS

- The most serious bioterror attack in America began only days after 9-11

- The letters all mention standard Islamic catch-phrases.

- Florida Dr. Tsonas treated Ahmed al-Haznawi for a severe leg lesion in late June.
  Dr. Tsonas is now convinced it was cutaneous anthrax.

- Two Johns Hopkins biodefense experts (Dr. Thomas Inglesby, Dr. Tara O'Toole) agree with Tsonas.

- FL hijackers inquire about crop-dusters and dispersal characteristics of chemical loads.

- Atta attempted to obtain a loan to buy a plane and convert it into a chemical transport.

- Moussaoui, the "20th hijacker", had tech info on airliners, crop-dusters, and wind patterns.

- Mohamed Atta went to a drugstore with red, chemical-burned hands mid-2001.
  Druggist thought Atta was suffering from exposure to a chemical with basic pH, possibly bleach (used to kill anthrax).

- Allah Rakah, detained by FBI, for placing suspicious bag of letters in his car with FL license plates

- Atta met twice with Colonel Muhammed Khalil Ibrahim al-Ani, a "very senior" Iraqi 'Special Ops' agent.
  (one report says the Czechs confirmed they had video...spycraft SOP)
  (another report claims that a vacumm bottle was passed to Atta during the meeting)

- Ziad Jarrah also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Marwan al-Shehhi also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Iraq is the ONLY hostile country known to have succeeded in weaponizing anthrax

- Iraq conducted military exercises simulating the dispersal of anthrax spores from crop-dusters

- The anthrax coating is silica, a material used by Iraq on biological agents.
- Chemical and biological weapons are effectively dispersed from crop-dusters

- The terrorists had two operational hubs: Hamilton, New Jersey and Delray, Florida. Anthrax was found in both areas.

JUST COINCIDENCES??

- The wife of the Sun tabloid's editor rented two apartments to two hijackers In Florida.

- The intials of the ringleader, A-T-T-A, are highlighted in letter 3a (Brokaw).

- Marwan al-Shehhi went to Huber Drugs (with Atta) with severe chest congestion.
  The pharmacist sold him a bottle of Robitussin initially, and later antibiotics.