Posted on 11/16/2001 9:32:40 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
That is my memory too, Quimby, plus, the NY Times letter was found not to contain anthrax--which pretty much negates the importance of the St. Petersburg postmark, unless something else turns up. But even if a St. Pete postmark turns up in other anthraxed mail, we must remember that these terrorists seemed to travel a bit, sometimes working out the NE, sometimes Dallas, and elsewhere.
Exactly so! We can't be throwing in the hoaxers with the actual anthrax mailers. The ones from St. Petersburg did not contain anthrax, and should not be considered until and unless one of them turns up positive for anthrax. Otherwise, it's a big fat red herring! Kinda keeps us running in circles.
I wonder if it will turn out that the Leahy letter is identical to the Daschle letter. If somebody's been using a xerox machine, I wonder if it would be possible to identify it from the scratches in the copies. If the machine is in the Trenton area, it should be possible to identify it.
PARTIAL quote from Suspicious Letter to Senator Tests Positive for Anthrax - By PHILIP SHENON, N.Y. Times (11/17/01):
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — Investigators searching through unopened mail sent to Capitol Hill discovered another letter today that contained anthrax. The letter was addressed to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
The bureau said that the letter was postmarked on Oct. 9 in Trenton and that it was found this evening among the more than 250 barrels of unopened Congressional mail impounded after a letter containing anthrax spores was opened last month in the offices of Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader.
Investigators said a preliminary test of the envelope, which had not been irradiated to kill microbes, showed that it contained anthrax. A law enforcement official said the letter to Mr. Leahy, a Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had the same fictitious return address as the Daschle letter: "4th Grade, Greendale School, Franklin Park, NJ."
In a statement, the F.B.I. said the letter to Senator Leahy "appears in every respect to be similar to other anthrax-laced letters" received by Mr. Daschle, NBC News and The New York Post.
The other three letters were all mailed from Trenton, were handwritten in childlike block letters that tilted to the right and were dated Sept. 11, the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The date appeared in the three letters as 09-11-01. The letters were all postmarked after Sept. 11.
A senior federal law enforcement official said the discovery of an anthrax-tainted letter to Senator Leahy would tend to support the suspicion of F.B.I. investigators that a domestic terrorist was behind the anthrax attacks.
"No disrespect to Senator Leahy," the official said, "but I don't know how many foreign terrorists would want to single out the chairman of a Congressional committee. They would have other targets."...
For Lurkers: Dr. Parvaiz Malik of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton and the Islamic Society of Central Jersey noted in the above profile is not the same person as Dr. Fahmy Malak of Arkansas, now Florida, who was medical examiner under Governor Clinton and mentioned in a number of Clinton scandals.
Specifically the New York Post letter.
Look at the E
Clearly it was printed from bottom to top, every time.
No native born American ever would print an E that way,
but it would be the natural way an Arabic printer would do it.
(Arabic script goes from right to left, from bottom to top).
Yes it could be a native trying to imitate the way an Arab would print, but would he be that clever?
By the way, the 3 letters and 3 envelopes were NOT all printed by the same person.
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