Posted on 09/17/2007 8:21:43 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Police Release 9 Threatening Postcards
OCALA, Fla. -- Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words 'Jihad-Boom" and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside.
Investigators released the postcards with the threatening drawings on them Monday in hopes of generating leads in the case.
Officials said that the postcards are made up of various and traditional themes, and each one has a distinctive hand-drawn cartoon on it. Several of the threats arrived on postcards featuring Walt Disney World.
Detectives said the threat-maker crossed his or her No. 7s and attached a suffix to the address. Six of the nine postcards spell the word "Jihad" correctly, while the others are incorrect.
The U.S. Postal Service said that the postcards were all mailed to the schools from the Ocala-Gainesville mailing district before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A $10,000 reward has been issued to anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for using the postal service to mail the threatening postcards to schools.
[See site for pictures of the postcards.]
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It's interesting that the writer draws a line through the number 7. That indicates a European or non-US background.
Until there's evidence to the contrary, I see it as another nutjob trying to scare people. It's probably a relief to see that he's sending postcards, since a serious terrorist would hit without warning.
But, that's just my opinion.
LOL, I just happened to be looking at them. ;-)
The Gainesville area has a large number of foreign-born Muslims who come there to go to the university, and it also has a large mosque and “dawa” (conversion) center on the edge of town.
To me, the handwriting looked like the handwriting of a male who may have had occasion to fill something out often - that is, the numbers were clearly and uniformly made, and the all-caps block printing was neat. The rest of the printing was somewhat ragged, but it didn’t look particularly foreign to me. I see a fair amount of non-American printing and writing, and this had none of those features.
That said, I don’t think it was really meant as a harmless prank just to get attention. I wonder how similar the handwriting is to that in the anthrax letters? The careful inclusion of the zip code was a feature of those letters, too. (Personally, I always thought somebody in the Post Office was responsible for those, or at least assisted with them.)
10-10 doesn’t mean anything that I can think of, but then, neither did 9/11.
The numerals look different, to me. Note the number “1” in both sets of letters, for example.
Hmmm... not so similar as I thought, but not definitive.
Thanks!
We’ve heard a lot about the jihadists at USF in Tampa ... what is lurking in the Swamp at Gainsvile?
Hmmm. What does 10-10 mean in that context?
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Thanks for putting these up!
10-10
Yes. It's unusual for hoaxers to point to some upcoming date. But, if the idea is just to scare people, it also makes sense to point to some upcoming date.
Does October 10 have any significance? Presumably, it's not just a date picked at random.
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http://home.att.net/~wizardoz/cbmw/10codes.html
Police codes are somewhat different.
Not the same person. The cap “E”, “4”, “2” and “1” are written by different people. No doubt.
Oh well... it was an interesting thought.
Do you suppose the “9-11 10-10” could be a time frame?
Thank you. That would actually make sense, if this guy thinks he’s “sending a message.”
Maybe the question mark between the two means that we’re supposed to guess when it’s going to happen between those two dates?
I think the anthrax letters were written by a left-handed person because of the slope. The postcards look like they were written by a right-handed person.
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