Hannity, O'Reilly Hit by Anthrax Scare Letters

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[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.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

WHOA!!!!!!

[classygreeneyedblonde]

SINCE LAST WINTER

[jwalsh07]

WHy would a right wing Wiccan extremist militia guy from Montana move to Indiana and commute to Trenton in order to scare Sean Hannity? Enquiring minds want to know.

[WxMan2000]

So THAT should finally put into the toilet the theory that some right-wing group is behind these letters.
You'd think they'd send one to Hillary first..

[Gumption]

"Bye"

[classygreeneyedblonde]

that's what i was just thinkin..... hmmmmmmm

[dogbyte12]

The fact that they went after Hannity and O'Reilly as well, makes me believe this is a local nut. I don't think any Osama funded terrorist would have been sending out these letters months before 9-11. This, if confirmed would lead me to believe it's more like a unibomber type guy who hates conservatives, liberals, you name it.

We were totally off guard for 9-11. Unless there is sinister language in those letters slyly referring to the event to come, the anthrax may after all be just a piggyback on 9-11.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

dang they got them since last winter wonder y they didnt get any anthrax not that i want them to....

[longfellow]

compare the fingerprints on those envelopes to the FBI files that were in hitlarys office!

[classygreeneyedblonde]

whomever this is a genuis hmmm they waited till after the 11th to send the anthrax..so they couldnt b caught, thinking they would just think it was some nut

[WxMan2000]

..like a unibomber type guy who hates conservatives, liberals..

Maybe the nut's a moderate!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

WHy would a right wing Wiccan extremist militia guy from Montana move to Indiana and commute to Trenton in order to scare Sean Hannity? Enquiring minds want to know.

Because they are so crafty and slick. It's such a crazy plan it just might work!

[poweqi]

I guess he din't KEEP any of the letters..?

BYW have ya'll seen the show tonight? Hannity and Colmes eat Maliks(sp don't care) arse! If you are the east coast don't miss it. I wished I had recorded it. Rewind...Rewind...Rewind. ROTFLMAO.

[Torie]

Maybe it is the beta fish phenomenon. Kill all you competitors.

[aristeides]

Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?

[classygreeneyedblonde]

i dont no if he kept them i hope he did...

[Pharmboy]

Their first mailing would be to Morris Dees; their second, to Abe Foxman. Their third? Perhaps Chuckie Schumer or Alan Dershowitz. And another thing: how come none to CNN?

[aristeides]

Indexing.

[WxMan2000]

There's not enough anthrax in the world to send to Alan Dershowitz.

[TomGuy]

That letter to Kenya is the one that is strange. It was sent, but apparently tampered with. That would indicate that the perpetrator had to be "within" the postal system. I think that one was a Priority Mail letter, if I remember right. It had "moisture" and a strange cloth that the sender apparently did not put in the packet.