IT'S FRIDAY : ANTHRAX THREAD TIME !!

08/23/03 | vanity

[genefromjersey]

It's Friday night: time to start a nice hot anthrax thread !

Okay. This is where I stand:

1.The anthrax that was mailed out was weapons grade.
2. In point of fact,it may have been "2nd generation" Weapons Grade, that used a relatively new nanotechnology Bill Patrick and Ken Alibek were unfamilar with,because it had been developed after their time.
3.This stuff was able to "leak" through the pores of the letter it was enfolded in, and the envelope containing the letter.
4. It left a trail of contamination that reached from a postbox in Princeton,NJ to mail facilities in Hamilton, NJ,Brentwood, Md,and two mail handling facilities in Florida.
5. It cross-contaminated other mail from Arkansas to Vermont...and probably dozens of other places we don't know about.
6. It killed 5 people, and sickened at least 17 more...that we know of.

I wonder what else it did ???

Consider this: Somebody had to transport those letters to that mailbox. What was the effect on the person who did the mailing ?

The letters had to get from- whatever hell they were prepared in- to Princeton: by car,truck,bus, or train. What contamination did they leave behind in that vehicle ? More importantly, what became of that vehicle ?

There have to have been anomalies following those mailings: sudden deaths, mysterious illnesses,skin lesions,even suicides.( What better way to conceal your probably fatal anthrax infection than by speeding up to 90Mph and hitting an abutment ? )

What do you say we set theory aside for a bit and concentrate on the mechanics of the mailings ?

[maestro]

?....dumped by foreign diplomatic pouch...?

[billb]

And let's drain some more ponds.

[thoughtomator]

It was Mr. Custard in the Dining Room with the Candlestick!

[muawiyah]

Get your sequence correct first. The anthrax showed up in Florida before it showed up in New Jersey.

Makes a lot of difference in how this is examined.

[MayDay72]

"It was Mr. Custard in the Dining Room with the Candlestick!" -Freddie [unmaking villain]

"And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for these meddling kids!" -Groundskeeper Mustard [being apprehended by the police]

[genefromjersey]

I doubt it. She was in NYC-the mailbox in Princeton,NJ.She seems to have gone to and from work,and done little else.

[genefromjersey]

There seem to have been (at least) 2 separate mailing dates,but the same contamination problems would apply:
how do you transport letters that are leaking anthrax without contaminating yourself,your immediate environment,and those unfortunate enough to wander into your environment ? ( Not that the folks behind this plot would care ! )

[genefromjersey]

THANKS FOR SHARING !!

[genefromjersey]

Not to mention this: bouncing and jouncing inside a car would probably aggravate the problem-just as automated mail processing equipment probably did.