Posted on 11/01/2001 5:59:30 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly were hit by threatening letters similar to those laden with anthrax sent to Sen. Tom Daschle and NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, the New York Post reported Thursday
In my gut, I know it's the same person," Hannity told his nationally syndicated radio audience Thursday afternoon, explaining that he'd kept quiet about the suspicious letters because they were the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.
The letters arrived before Sept. 11 but were addressed in the same kind of block letter handwriting used in Daschle and Brokaw missives. They apparently contained no anthrax.
Each line in the printed address clearly sloped downward to the right, the paper said. The envelopes bore a postmark from Indianapolis, where the Post Office discovered yesterday that some of its equipment is contaminated with anthrax.
Hannity said that he'd begun receiving the suspicious mail last winter and again in August.
When I saw the Tom Daschle envelope and the Tom Brokaw envelope, I immediately was stunned," Hannity told listeners. "It was the exact same handwriting that I had recognized.... When I saw it I said, 'Oh my God, that's the same guy.'"
The "Hannity & Colmes" co-host revealed that in addition to the letters with an Indianapolis postmark, "one or two were from Trenton (N.J.)," where traces of anthrax has also been reported.
Hannity said he hasn't gotten anymore of the letters since the Sept. 11 attacks and hasn't been tested for anthrax exposure.
>Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?
Here's a Kafkaesque postscript to that story:
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"We have not seen the additional tests. Our position remains the same. We are not aware of new results," the health ministry's director of medical services Richard Muga told AFP, adding that the original tests had been carried out by "experts." On October 18, Kenyan Health Minister Sam Ongeri announced that two separate tests, smear-and-stain and culture, had shown that material from the Atlanta missive had tested positive for anthrax, making it the first confirmed case of the bacteria outside the United States. "The letter was re-tested by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the consensus of the microbiologists was that the letter was not contaminated with anthrax. It is believed that the tests were conducted on mildew or fungus," said the US spokesman's information statement put out by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Atlanta. Senior officials from KEMRI and CDC were not available for comment Wednesday. |
LOL--you got off a beauty...
Case closed.
The New York Times
October 25, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
Section B; Page 10; Column 6; Metropolitan Desk
A NATION CHALLENGED; Convicted Terrorists Sent to Pennsylvania
Federal authorities moved quickly to transfer four convicted followers of Osama bin Laden to a high-security prison in Pennsylvania after they were sentenced last week in the embassy bombings trial.The four terrorists, who received life prison terms last Thursday for conspiring with Mr. bin Laden in global terrorism, arrived Sunday at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., government officials said.
The terrorism conspiracy included the bombings of the American Embassies in East Africa in 1998, the government said, in which 224 people died.
Linda Smith, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, refused to say whether the four men -- Wadih El-Hage, 41; Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, 36; Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, 24; and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 28 -- would remain at Lewisburg, which is in central Pennsylvania, or be moved elsewhere.
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