Posted on 11/20/2001 1:25:42 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
The affirmative statements in the following profile are meant to convey that the majority view on the threads are thus and so. The conditional words, such as may be or in the alternative ... are used to convey alternative views where there is not an overwhelming consensus from prior posts. At the end are the significant competing theories presented so far. This is not meant to obtain an indictment or plead a case before a jury ... it is to show the consensus additional profile information based on research done by many contributing Freepers.
The perp is here on a student VISA. He is Islamic and Middle Eastern. He may be a member of Al Queda. English is not his primary language, he may be a proficient computer user or coder especially if Al Queda.
The alternative theory is that the perp is left handed.
The 'G' and '6' as handwritten on the letters and envelopes are peculiar and perhaps indicate an arabic cursive normal usage.
He was given anthrax and perhaps more biochems - of various grades. They may have been made in Iraq - they may have been made here. He did not develop them himself. He knows lab procedures.
The alternative theory is that the terrorist cell had one and only one vial of the anthrax and they were rushed to use it for some reason, it could be that the very fine stuff settles to the bottom of the vial. The lab analysis of each specimen will eventually show if the only difference between envelopes is size of the spores - or if the batches were processed differently.
He is fairly diligent in handling the anthrax, but he is not perfect. He knows Dr. Malik, chairman of the Islamic Society of NJ. He may work with him. He's been to the doctor's office at 1542 Kuser Road in Trenton NJ. While there he accidentally infected the accountant next door at Civale Silvestri & Alfieri CPA, 1540 Kuser Road.
Dr. Parvaiz Malik of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton and the Islamic Society of Central Jersey noted in this 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.
The perp may be from Pakistan and may have sought out Dr. Malik's help (because he is also from Pakistan) to get employment/access to a nearby university hospital, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. Dr Malik is on the staff there. The perp may have used lab facilities in the hospital (either at Hamilton or the main campus or one of its affiliates) to safely handle or prep the different batches of anthrax.
Dr. Malik has been in the U.S. since the 70's or so and is long established here. He is probably not a party to the terrorists. However, as head of the Islamic Center of Central NJ and being from Pakistan and having made it as a doctor here ... we wonder if a newcomer to the country living in that area, attending that mosque and wanting to become a doctor ... may have asked him for a job referral or such.
There probably are other people in his cell who may already be in custody - one with Florida license plates and others from Canada.
Several arrests of Pakistani nationals were made in Trenton/Hamilton two weeks ago --some in the Greenwood Village apartments, and some at 1001 N. Olden Street. The N. Olden Street arrests took place after a witness observed a man gingerly placing letters enclosed in a ziploc bag into his car. The car had Florida license plates.
Just after the events of September 11, the FBI arrested Mohammed Pervez, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent. Pervez was a Jersey City roommate of Ali Ayub Kahn and Mohammed Jazweeth Azmath, suspected of being hijackers whose plans were thwarted when their plane was grounded in St. Louis. Pervez, who worked in both Trenton and Newark train stations, was also a roommate of the potential anthrax suspects detained from the Greenwood village apartments in Hamilton.
Ali Ayub Khan also listed as one of his addresses the same Chicago apartment house as Sabash Gurung is staying in with his brother. Gurung is the Nepalese who was arrested at O'Hare Airport with a large stash of weapons (knives, a stun gun, etc.). The FBI said (or implied) that the Ali Khan who lives in the same apartment house as Gurung is a different Ali Khan, that it's a coincidence of names. But this seems not to be the case -- in fact, there is a newspaper article on Khan, dated well before Gurung was in the news, which gives that Chicago address for him.
There may be a chain of infection following the medical route - like there is following the mail route.
In DelRay Beach, Florida - a pharmacist (Gregg Chatterton at Huber Healthmart Drugs) claimed to have talked to Atta and another hijacker when they came into his pharmacy with ailments last August. Mostly, we heard about Atta, who had red hands. But the other hijacker, Marwan Al-Shehhi, had symptoms of inhalation anthrax (cough) that would have required him to visit a doctor in his area. The pharmacist said that a man resembling Al-Shehhi had returned to have a prescription filled, but his name was not found in their records - leading the investigators to think he had used an alias. The pharmacist said the red hands looked like a result from washing with bleach - that it did not look like cutaneous anthrax.
In Chester PA on 11/14/01 - teams of FBI agents complete with hazmat gear and tents, broke down door(s), swabbed and seized evidence at two homes and the city hall. One house was shared by City Health Commissioner Irshad Shaikh and his brother Masood. The other was the home of city accountant Asif Kazi. They are all from Pakistan. Kazi's wife had a prescription for Cipro. Kazi had been seen dumping a cloudy liquid and handing a silver canister to someone.
Freepers wonder if this Could he be THE Asif Kazi, or is it a very common Pakistani name?
However, the dialogue on the discussion thread is troubling:
It has a single entry under "replies". If you click it, you see a reply consisting of the original message quoted with carets, and no new text. It seems most each reply is the same, with "mustafa's" original message quoted, but no new content. One reply had the same message "mustafa" entered, but this time not quoted (no carets, it appeared to be original content), and signed by "Bharathi Kumar". (BTW almost all the names seemed to be middle-eastern types.) The next message -- a reply to "Bharathi Kumar" -- (this one by a poster named "bluess") quoted the original message, again attributing it to "mustafa".
The next message after that one again had the text in quoted format, but attributed it to ">ASHISH BHARDWAJ" -- which happens to be the same name shown as the author of the post, although the Author: field showed it in lowercase. The reply to that message had "mustafa's" message, but this time once again formatted as caretless original text, and, missing the linebreaks that the previous messages had. It was signed by "Venkat", and the Author: field showed VENKAT in uppercase.
Conjecture, for discussion:
1. It could be a series of coded messages, with the "message" part being the email address, or the author name, or perhaps there's some subtle changes in the body of the text (an extra space here or there, etc.)
2. It could be a "recruiting station", with volunteers directed to post a followup message to that thread, so that they could be contacted via email. Why do something like that? So that the "recruiter" could see who "applies" without disclosing his own identity. The contributing Freeper has heard that "no footprint" communications like that happen on Usenet; and believes there's a newsgroup dedicated to such comms. There is no way for an observer to know who the recipient is, because the message is readable to the entire world, even though only the intended recipient will know how to decipher it.
Reading through each message on the link provided (making money on the internet, send directions) a Freeper couldn't help but conclude that this is some kind of coded exchange. Not only are there a few breaks in the original message, one is simply different, more urgent. They came in intervals, and there is no posting since the end of October.
Another Freeper wonders if gopher may hold clues. He nosed around to see if there were still any gopher sites up and running. There aren't many left. He found a list of "All the Gopher Servers in the World" from http://www.alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/gophers.html (all the other gopher servers from that page are dead.) The root at that site is "Gopher root at gopher.tc.umn.edu". There might be some stuff of interest there, "hidden in plain sight" as it were.
Dr. Shaikh PhD. has been the Commissioner of Health since 1994. He received his undergrad and postgraduate diplomas in Community Medicine in Pakistan. He received his Masters and PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is fellow of the Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI). PHLI is an executive leadership program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Shaikh also holds a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Welcome to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies"...Sponsored by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation & The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation..."
The Hopkins School of Hygiene and public health is across the street from the hospital. They do not have any labs for microbes there. They have no anthrax and neither does the hospital. This guy may be on the faculty at the School of Hygiene but there is certainly no institutional support for terrorist activites. The former Dean of that school, Henderson, was the one who wiped out smallpox. It is a great school except for some departments that seem to attract all kinds of socialists, communists, etc. The Robert Wood Johnson foundation endows all kinds of activities including wings at Hopkins for peds. The former head of a department at Hopkins headed the RWJ foundation. They probably do not provide cover for terrorists either.
Tests are now being performed for Dr. Gerald Weisfogel who believes he may have had skin anthrax earlier than the mailings. There are three Gerald M. Weisfogel's listed in NJ - Franklin Park, Kendall Park and Metuchen. Dr. Gerald Weisfogel is chief of cardiology at the JFK Medical Center in New Jersey, which is in Edison, New Jersey. Edison is just across the river from New Brunswick.
Good Morning America (7:00 AM ET) - ABC November 12, 2001 Monday
...ROSS: (VO) Dr. Weisfogel says he diagnosed his black scab as a spider bite and now wonders if this is the same common misdiagnosis in other anthrax cases. What's more, he wonders if the bioterrorists might have been in his office.
Dr. WEISFOGEL: Have I come across patients from countries who might be doing this? Yes.
ROSS: You've treated people like that?
Dr. WEISFOGEL: Yes.
ROSS: In this time frame?
Dr. WEISFOGEL: Yes. But there's no proof that any of them have had any connection...
Kendall Park, Franklin Park, Edison, and Metuchen are all close to each other, going north on Rte. 1. So all the addresses are probably for the same guy: hospital in Edison, offices in Metuchen and either or Franklin Park or Kendall Park, and home in the fourth place
There are significant labs in Piscataway, across the river from New Brunswick, the main campus of RWJ. Robert Wood Johnson has two high-profile microbiology labs in Piscataway -- the CABM(Center forAdvanced Biotechnology and Medicine) and the Waksman Institute. The Waksman Institute is a "microbe farm," producing germ "products" for industry and research.
The Waksman fermentation facility is troubling, and contributing Freepers hope the FBI has included ALL reference labs that have fermentation specialties. Most solid state fermentation is done with fungal spores, but the same technique would apply to bacterial (anthrax) spores.
Metuchen is right up the road to the northeast. (And down the road about 12 miles along Route 1 is the Islamic Society and Franklin Park.)
The perp accidentally infected the lady in New York. He did not go there by subway - he drove in. He may have gone to New York to pick up or deliver the anthrax. The car he used is most likely still contaminated. He may have rolled down a window or opened a door at just the wrong time for Kathy. The perp, may be working for RWJ University Hospital and had a business contact with Kathy's hospital.
A possible suspect in the Anthrax mailings is an Iraqi-American microbiologist who lives in Trenton, New Jersey (at last notice.) His name, or at least his alias, is "Waly Samar". In 1993, Mr. Samar was studying microbiology at Hunter College in NYC - less than a thousand feet from the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital where Kathy Nguyen worked - the latest victim of inhalation Anthrax. Waly Samar operated integrally with the Iraqi intelligence agents Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ramzi Yousef in planning, coordinating and executing the World Trade Center bombing on February 26th, 1993, the second anniversary of Kuwait's liberation from Iraqi occupation.
The perp is a member or attendee of The Islamic Society of Central Jersey. He has written many letters to them; he knows the zip code by heart. Although he gave a different town name on the return address (Franklin Park) - he automatically used the zip code he knew for that area. But the zip code does not go with Franklin Park.
The zip code on the return address from the Daschle letter is 08852, Monmouth Junction NJ - the location of the Islamic Society of Central NJ - headed by Dr. Malik, and including a mosque and a school.
There are probably canceled checks or correspondence at the Islamic Society of NJ that can be matched to his handwriting.
It might be possible to identify the copier used to make one or more of the letters if it was copied on a cheap "film" copier/fax machine ... the kind that might leave an image on the used roll.
He is a member of Islamic student associations. He may have attended or be in association with a student at ETSU which is near an elementary school named "Greendale" in Abingdon, VA (a tri-state area.) He didn't grab that name out of the air - neither brook nor dale would be common words to him.
In the alternative, he might have intentionally changed the name of a nearby school "Greenbrook" to "Greendale." The Greenbrook school only goes to the 4th grade.
Another possibility: Greendale and Franklin, WI are right next to each other. The NJ school is Greenbrook School, not Greendale. Could it be some Freudian slip? There are 15,000 Muslims in the area.
In the alternative, there is a biotechnology laboratory in England named Greendale.
The letter to Troxler was received on the same day the letters to Daschle and Leahy were mailed. But Bob Stevens of American Media had already died of anthrax. It was already thought that American Media might have been sent the anthrax in a letter. And this was when there was a spate of letters with white powder that turned out to be hoaxes, many presumably by random copycats.
The Daschle and Leahy letters were postmarked October 9, but the Brokaw and New York Post letters were postmarked on September 18 -- long before Troxler received his letter. The information about the Brokaw and Post letters were not public at the time the Troxler letter was mailed. (October 11 or 12.)
Interestingly enough, originally the focus of the NBC case was on a letter postmarked from St. Petersburg on September 20. So it appears that there may be some connection between the two sets of letters (Trenton/anthrax and St. Pete/hoaxes).
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition suggested sending emails, call or fax to Leahy to cease delivery of all armaments and military and economic aid to Israel immediately. The "Leahy Law," a provision in recent appropriations legislation, prohibits U.S. military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.
VIACOM, Parent company of CBS was also the parent company of Medscape. Medscape is in Oregon. Customers include University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, Newark, NJ. On November 8, 2001 Medscape, a leading provider of digital health record applications and online medical information announced that, effective immediately, it has agreed to a termination of its relationship with Viacom Inc.
Tom Brokaw was also the anchorman who wrote "The Greatest Generation". Not exactly a terrorist's best friend.
New York Post is more often than not, pro-Israel. It could also have been a mis-send meant for the Jewish Post of New York.
ABC is an Eisner run company, Eisner being best known for his promotion of gays at Disney. Although there is no word for homosexual in Arabic, it IS one of those things they hypocritically condemn the US for.
Though addressed to Rather, he never got HIS missive nor the disease. A child at a birthday party did. It could very easily have been picked up on a piece of TAPE in a mailroom and used to seal a gift or card. Not enough to infect an adult, perhaps not even touched by an adult, but enough to infect a 2 year old.
Hannity is an unswerving Netanyahu fan, and an uncompromising critic of the Muslims in this country who have so far refused to back this country.
The block lettering may indicate that he is a tutor for elementary level students or has (or is undertaking) an engineering or architecture education.
The emphasis on the letters might have been intentional - pointing to ATTA.
If he is Al Queda, he may present himself secular - going to bars, joining clubs, protesting the terrorists, etc.
He may be dead or missing.
Medical anthrax trail - there should also be a star for New Brunswick!
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The perp is North Korean or possibly from China. English is not his primary language and neither is Arabic.
People investigating Bill Clinton and the Chinese about this in Arkansas came down with anthrax (inhalation kind)-Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch (survived)and OK businessman Ron Miller who was to have testified about his findings before Burton's Govt Reform committee but died two weeks before his testimony appearance.
The perp is an operative for Cuba. Castro had a mole deep in the Department of Defense for years and has become close to Islamic fundamentalists. Cuba has advanced biochemical capabilities.
The perp is a Domestic neo-nazi outfit which has a history of involvement with middle eastern terrorist organizations. It's possible that the anthrax attack was a "joint effort" between them.
The perp is a white disgruntled American crackpot, keeping in mind all the anarchist websites and crackpot groups in this country.
The is an anti-Arab who is pretending to be an Arab.
The perp was al Queda doing Atta a favor Speculating that just prior to the 9/11 attacks, the organization became aware that Atta had developed a strong grudge against someone associated with the Florida tabloid due to some precieved personal affront which was becoming an obsession for Atta. I further speculate that, wishing to calm down Atta and/or to cement his resolve for the coming mission, the organization tossed Atta a sop by sending the letter to the American Media Corporation. Atta may have been present while the letter was prepared, or Atta may have posted the letter himself. Because this letter was not a priority to the organization, they did not use their best Anthrax for this letter.
The perp is from the far left wing Far right kook, or for that matter any member of the "far right-wing", do not have access to a BSL-3 laboratory . At least in the university setting, lefties would have far more access. If this anthrax was produced in an American lab, it's more likely to be a member of the far left targeting what they perceive to be their moderate members. Perhaps a culture was stolen in the US, or given away, and shuttled off outside the country to be weaponized, and then brought back in by "diplomatic" pouch.
The perp is a Britian "loose cannon" www.greendale.co.uk
The perp is a Postal worker - the infection was sudden and contained within the mail route.
The perp is a woman from Patterson (connected to imam Rachman) He lived in or had connections to Greendale Laboratories in Woking, Surrey, England where he or his contacts obtained the anthrax sample. He has children in Jersey schools - a child, probably male, address and write the letters and envelopes. The date written on the letter was a later edition possibly written by another person. The perp must be familiar with someone in government. Women's handwritings are more distinguishable and it would be obvious to the FBI so the woman used her opposite hand to print the envelopes.
The perp is an American scientist with access to US weaponized anthrax or one who had been taught by an expert how to make it. The perp warned the recipient to take antibiotics. The perp was trying to attract attention to biological weapons as a threat, either to push the US government toward retaliatory action against some enemy or to attract funding and recognition to some agency/company/program/etc. with which he has a connection. If the government knows it is an "inside job" - it will be covered up.
The perp is a Serb seeking revenge and putting the blame on the muslims.
The perp is has some connection with BioPort, which manufactures the anthrax vaccine. The biography of the Faud El-Hibri:
BioPort's Board of Directors
Fuad El-Hibri (Chairman and CEO)
Robert G. Kramer (President & COO)
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. (USN Retired)
Dr. Robert C. Myers (Executive Vice-President, CSO)
The perp is not an American. The date is written 09-11-01. Americans would have written 9/11/01, without the leading 0, and with slashes instead of dashes.
A telegrapher [commercial or railroad] or military communicator would have used the zero, but those trained since the 1970s routinely add a slash to the zero to differentiate it from the letter *O*. A European would follow the month/day/format of 11.09.01 and the similar US military format would routinely abbreviate the month to eliminate the confusion: 11 SEP 2001. Some computer-world oriented procedures also follow the logical day/month/year format, though since the Y2K panic, the year is most commonly written with all four digits.
Much has been made of the fact that the date is written in the American order of month-day-year, but most foreigners would be aware of that and, in fact, would have become accustomed to that order after a few years here -- they'd be repeatedly told by Americans that they were writing dates incorrectly if they used the day-month-year order. But nobody misunderstands a date written with dashes instead of slashes; nobody even comments on such a thing, so a foreigner could easily not realize that it looks foreign.
Note though that telegraphers [and some amateur radio operators] also sometimes send the quicker *dash* character [*----* in international Morse] rather than *slash* [-**-*] [or *stroke* in Brit/Euro parlance] and thereby routinely write that char as the seperator. And at least some air traffic controllers will use dashes, rather than slash/stroke.
If the perp loaded the envelopes in a house or apartment, there should be some spilled or leaked anthrax that should infect other people in the vicinity sooner or later. But if he loaded the envelopes in a special science lab, there might not be any spilled anthrax at all.
And such equipment can't be had just anywhere. Neither are purchases for such equipment generally made with more or less untracable cash, so there'd likely be a paper trail back to the financial sources behind such an effort- in which case it wouldn't be *just one lone crazed gunman labman*.
KNF Neuberger, Inc. markets the necessary laboratory equipment. They are at Two Black Forest Road in Trenton NJ which is located very close to the Kuser Road, where the accountant was infected.
Terrorists wanting to send anthrax to some important US politicians bought a copy of the New York Times, noted the stories on the front page that day, made a list of the Senators and Congressmen mentioned, and sent off letters to them. Their goal is to sow terror. So, they send anthrax letters to a.) the media and b.) a couple of Democrat politicians.
The anthrax came in a shipping boxes via FedEx or other containers, or hand carried through airport security. It did not originate in Trenton, and the letters did not originate there either.
According to the Wall Street Journal at most 8 labs have the virulent strain of anthrax that the terrorists used, and, reading between the lines, they all have been checked and cleared. They know where the anthrax came from, they just aren't telling.
Sept. 18: Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J.; sent to New York Post and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. They later test positive for anthrax.(3)
Sept. 22: Editorial page assistant at New York Post who opens letters to the editor notices blister on her finger. Johanna Huden later tests positive for skin form of anthrax, more treatable form of disease.(3)
Sept 24: FAA grounds crop-duster planes after the FBI warns of potential chemical or biological attacks from them. An employee of Belle Glade Airport, Florida has identified Mohamed Atta, whom the FBI believes piloted the American Airlines flight from Boston which slammed into the WTC. He is identified as one of a group of Middle Eastern men who visited Belle Glade in the months before the crash, asking for specific details about crop-dusters.(9)
Sept. 26: Unidentified maintenance worker at Trenton regional post office in Hamilton, N.J., visits physician to have lesion on arm treated.(3)
Sept. 27: Teresa Heller, letter carrier at West Trenton post office, develops lesion on her arm.(3)
Sept. 28: Erin O'Connor, assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, notices a lesion.(3)
Sept 28: The baby, believed to have visited newsroom on Sept. 28, is taking antibiotics and expected to recover.(3)
Sept. 30: Bob Stevens, photo editor at supermarket tabloid The Sun in Boca Raton, Fla., starts to feel ill.(3)
Oct. 1: Ernesto Blanco, mailroom employee at American Media Inc., publisher of The Sun, admitted to hospital with heart problems. O'Connor begins taking Cipro.(3)
Oct. 2: Stevens admitted to hospital.(3)
Oct. 3: In New Jersey, Heller is hospitalized and biopsy is performed.(3)
Oct. 4: Authorities confirm Stevens has inhaled form of anthrax, most deadly form of disease. Claire Fletcher, assistant to CBS News anchor Dan Rather, begins taking penicillin after visiting doctor. Later, she's tested for anthrax after NBC case becomes public.(3)
Oct. 5: Stevens dies. First U.S. death from inhaled anthrax since 1976.(3)
Oct. 9: FBI pursues anthrax lead Agents are combing the offices of a magazine publishers where anthrax traces have been found (2)
Oct. 9: Letter postmarked Oct 9th Trenton, N.J.; sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. It later tests positive for anthrax. (3)
Oct. 10 3rd anthrax case Officials launched a criminal investigation into the source of the disease. US embassies were told to stock up on the antibiotic (2)
Oct. 10: FBI takes investigative lead in Boca Raton, Fl as anthrax spores are discovered in a hospitalized man (9)
Oct. 12: Officials announce O'Connor at NBC developed skin anthrax after opening letter.(3)
Oct 12: Leahy's office decides to set aside all unopened mail after anthraxcontaminated letter was sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. (5)
Oct. 14: Letter containing anthrax opened in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office. Daschle's office quarantined.(3)
Oct. 15: 2 new anthrax cases A baby boy of an ABC News employee and a 73-year-old employee of the Sun tabloid - have been diagnosed (2)
Oct. 15: Officials say infant son of ABC News producer in New York developed skin anthrax. The baby, believed to have visited newsroom on Sept. 28, is taking antibiotics and expected to recover.(3)
Oct. 16: Twelve Senate offices closed; hundreds of staffers get tests.(3)
Oct 16: Since 10/1 FBI has responded to 2,300 incidents or suspected incidents involving anthrax (9)
Oct. 17: Thirty-one people at U.S. Capitol test positive for exposure to anthrax, officials say. Later, more complete tests show only 28 actually exposed. House shuts down for testing. Senate stays open two more days. New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office evacuated after test detects presence of anthrax. No one tests positive for exposure.(3)
Oct 18: House of Rep suspends work until Monday Oct 22.
Oct. 18: Fletcher at CBS tests positive for skin anthrax. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hold special Webcast to teach doctors how to recognize anthrax. New Jersey letter carrier who first got lesion on Sept. 27 diagnosed with skin anthrax. Another postal worker likely had skin anthrax, though tests inconclusive.(3)
Oct. 19: New York Post announces Huden is diagnosed with skin anthrax. Another New Jersey postal worker, at Hamilton regional office, tests positive for skin anthrax. FBI questions residents, businesses on New Jersey mail route of infected letter carrier. Anthrax bacteria strains in Florida, New York and Washington may have been from same batch, Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge says.(3)
Oct. 19 Anthrax strains the same Strains sent to NBC in NY, the Sun tabloid in Florida and to the Senate come from the same source (2)
Oct 20: The FBI identifies a mail sorting faciltly in Trenton, New Jersey as location from which the anthraxcontaminated letters to Brokaw and Daschel were sent (9)
Oct. 20: Tests confirm anthrax traces found in mail-bundling machine at House office building a few blocks from the Capitol. (3)
Oct. 21: Washington postal worker gravely ill with inhalation anthrax; five others sick. Officials close two postal facilities, begin testing thousands of postal employees. Later that night, postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. dies. New Jersey health officials say work areas, but not public areas, at Hamilton post office test positive for anthrax spores. Washington postal worker Joseph P. Curseen goes to Maryland hospital complaining of flu-like symptoms. He is sent home (3)
Oct. 22: Curseen returns to hospital at 5:45 a.m. by ambulance; dies six hours later of inhalation anthrax. Two other postal workers hospitalized in serious but stable condition. House and Senate reopen; office buildings remain closed. (3)
Oct 22: Two Washington D.C. postal workers die of what officials suspect is anthrax (9)
Oct. 23: Anthrax found on machinery at military base that sorts mail for White House; all tests at White House itself come back negative. President Bush says: "I don't have anthrax." Officials announce that unidentified New Jersey postal worker at Hamilton office is hospitalized with suspected case of inhalation anthrax. Ernesto Blanco released from hospital after 23 days(3,9)
Oct 23: The investigative trail at the New Jersey mail facility that is believed to have processed the letters sent to Tom Brokaw, The NY Post and Senator Tom Daschle is at a dead end (9)
Oct. 24: Surgeon General David Satcher admits "we were wrong" not to respond more aggressively to tainted mail in Washington. Three new cases of suspected inhalation anthrax announced in Maryland suburbs, all linked to Daschle letter.(3)
Oct. 25: An employee at the State Department's mail facility is hospitalized with anthrax and the Postal Service sets up spot checks at facilities nationwide. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge says the anthrax the Daschle letter was highly concentrated and made "to be more easily absorbed" by its victims The number of Americans taking antibiotics for possible anthrax exposure reaches 10,000.(3,9)
Oct 25: Homeland Security Chief confirms anthrax used in letters to Brokaw, NY Post, American Media Inc and Senator Daschel is from same strain produced in Iowa and used in research all over the world. (9)
Oct. 26: The Supreme Court building is ordered shut down for anthrax testing. Postal workers demand the closure of anthrax-tainted buildings in New York and Florida, with (3)
Oct. 30: Call to shut US anthrax mailrooms Postal union leaders have filed a lawsuit, demanding that 13 sorting offices infected with anthrax be closed... (2)
Nov 2: Investigators reviewing video and computer tapes of potical scanners that 'read' handwritten envelopes at post office. (8)
Nov 2: FBI agents raid a Trenton N.J. apartment (8)
Nov 9: "AMERITHRAX" is the code name assigned to the federal investigation (8)
Nov 13: US Attorneys begin interviewing 5,000 men who have entered country since Jan 2000 (8)
Nov 17: The Dirksen and Russell buildings were closed after envelope addressed to Sen Patrick Leahy discovered (4,7)
Nov. 18: Dirksen and Russell buildings to reopen at 8 a.m. Monday. The Hart Senate Office Building, will remain closed. (6)
1. Las Vegas, Harris 1998 timeline. http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/crime/bio/timeline.html
2. Florida timeline 2001 http://www.mapreport.com/countries/florida.html
3. http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/article_detail.asp?Article_ID=7572
4. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0466.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
5. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0466.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
6. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0576.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
7. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0576.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
8. http://www.crime.com/feature/terrorism/timeline.html
9. http://www.crime.com/feature/terrorism/timeline_01.html
10. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/102301.htm gif of envelopes
I think he is a suspect in the Planned Parenthood hoax letters.
I posted an article last week after reading in a local paper in western PA that Waagner's home had been raided.
Do you have a source for this? I thought the origin of the baby's infection was still completely unknown, although the obvious suspicion is that it was from another letter to the media, like the one sent to Brokaw at NBC.
Hannity, O'Reilly Hit by Anthrax Scare Letters
News/Current Events
Source: news max
Published: Nov. 1 Author: news max
Posted on 11/1/01 6:59 PM Pacific 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...Hannity said that he'd begun receiving the suspicious mail last winter and again in August.
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Here are the letters (if your window is wide enough, they'll be next to each other):
| Brokaw letter | N.Y. Post letter |
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These two letters are identical to the point that a copy machine was almost certainly used (either one is a copy of the other, or they're both copies of the same original). Look at the four letters of the alphabet that were gone over with a pen, repeatedly and heavily.
Here's what I mean when I ask if these are dated, signed letters. Imagine that the writer of these is basically writing a letter as usual. He starts by putting today's date at the top, flush right the way one would ordinarily date a letter. He then writes the letter. Finally, he'd like to sign it, but he can't. So he finds the letters of his last name in the message and goes over them repeatedly with his pen: A-T-T-A. They're even roughly in a column, making the word ATTA easy to read once you point it out.
Was this letter written by Mohamed Atta on the morning of 9/11, before the World Trade Center attack? Somebody else would have mailed the letters on 9/18, of course. This second person might have done the copying too.
I realize that I'm reading a lot into the way four letters of the alphabet were written; maybe the whole idea is silly. But why were four letters of alphabet, and no others, gone over repeatedly with a pen, making them stand out?
I think the newsmax.com article is the only article I'd seen about the letters to Hannity and O'Reilly. I'd really like to find out more details (how many letters were there, what did they say, when were they mailed, are there scanned images available, were similar letters sent to other people too, etc.?). It would also be nice to have a more reliable source than newsmax.com (not that I dismiss newsmax completely, but confirmation from a mainstream media source would be good).
Try font Tempus Sans ITC:
09-11-01THIS IS NEXT
TAKE PENACILIN NOW
DEATH TO AMERICA
DEATH TO ISRAEL
ALLAH IS GREAT
Warped minds of psychotics. *sigh*
Did any one else hear the Fox reporter, when the Kathy Ngyuen story first broke, say that she had been in the Phillipines the prior month?....he said it and then it was never mentioned again...false story from the beginning or what?
Threatening letters mailed to the media before the World Trade Center attacks - bearing striking similarities to the current anthrax- tainted letters - were mailed from Indianapolis, where the deadly bacteria was discovered yesterday, The Post has learned.
The pre-Sept. 11 letters were addressed in block letters that virtually match the lettering on the anthrax-laced missives sent to Sen. Thomas Daschle, the New York Post and NBC, law-enforcement sources said.
One source allowed The Post to see copies of envelopes from several of the earlier letters.
Each line of the printed address clearly sloped downward to the right and the handwriting eerily resembled that on the anthrax letters.
Federal investigators checked the return addresses on the letters, the sources said, but none of them was real.
The return address on one letter - addressed to Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly - listed the name of Sean Hannity, another FNC personality.
Despite the obvious twisted humor, that letter and about 15 more now are a major focus of the far-flung federal probe, the sources say.
The similarities between the pre-Sept. 11 and post-Twin Tower disaster letters has further fueled a theory at the FBI and Justice Department that the anthrax scare is the work of a twisted home- grown menace rather than a terrorist linked to state-sponsored action or Osama bin Laden.
Source say investigators are eyeing a number of groups, including radical members of a pagan cult.
The Wiccan group fashions itself as modern-day witches seeking religious freedom, but they are not known to be violent.
Investigators are probing whether a disturbed member of the group may have taken a bizarre turn and is targeting the media and the government in particular.
Indiana officials yesterday said that it was a coincidence they tested for - and found - traces of anthrax in a facility that repairs parts from sorting machines used by the U.S. Postal Service.
Inspectors initially started testing for the deadly bacteria in another repair facility, in Topeka, Kan., after several workers experienced flu-like symptoms, said Darla Stafford, spokeswoman for the Greater Indianapolis post office.
She said inspectors then tested in Indianapolis as a precaution because parts from an anthrax-affected post office in Washington, D.C. were recently repaired there.
I notice that it vaguely mentions letters to the media, but only one is specifically identified (mailed to O'Reilly, apparently singled out because the reporter found it amusing that Sean Hannity's name was on the return address). I wonder what the other letters were (did Hannity get one, as has been indicated elsewhere?) and what the letters themselves said.
The Wiccan connection seems ridiculous on its face, and that theory seems to have been abandoned by the FBI, but maybe there was something in these letters that pointed them in that direction? (In any event, I'll be quite surprised if it turns out that there's no relationship between the anthrax mailings and 9/11 attacks, because of the multitude of apparent connections.)
One source allowed The Post to see copies of envelopes from several of the earlier letters.
What source would reveal pictures of the envelopes to the Post but not to the public? And what about the letters themselves, as opposed to the envelopes?
There are still more questions than answers here. Early leads like these are very promising, since there's always the possibility that useful information might have been revealed at that stage, before the need for absolute obscurity might have been obvious to the terrorists.
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