Hmmm.
1st anthrax letter to a tabloid editor.
One letter to Brokaw, but nothing sent to Dan Rather?

Middle-aged, educated, loner male, not a Muslim, dislikes public confrontations.

Duh It's GARY CONDIT !

Remember it took almost 4 months for Condit to break his silence to Connie chung and he was obviously uncomfortable.

Authorities believe the letter writer also may have held a grudge against those to whom he sent the letters, although investigators have not yet determined what that grievance might have been.

Hmm, maybe they should have tried reading the letter.

Hmm, maybe they should have tried reading the letter.

It sounds like they are looking for a Tim McVeigh type instead of a muslim-extremist. Friggin geniuses.

"Did you get my letter yet?"

I'm with you. The fact that some the terrorists of the 11th were based in New Jersey and outside of Boca Raton is too much of a coincidence for me. (I understand law enforcement is taught not to believe in concidences.) Also, Jonah Goldberg's theory that someone initally misunderstood their orders and targeted American Media rather than the american media is pretty telling. I'm afraid the authorities are barking up the wrong tree by not tying this to the tragedy of the 11th. I'd be checking records for visa holders that have worked at labs or universities that have anthrax study capacities.

I'd be checking records for visa holders that have worked at labs or universities that have anthrax study capacities.

Contrary to what you might have heard, no ordinary university lab could have produced the milled, coated anthrax sent to Daschle. The anthrax was produced by a state. It is not hard to guess which state.

No, no. Isolated wacko. Buy some doughnuts at the new KrispyKreme, move along...

I find it HILARIOUS that the anthrax was obviously manufactured before the attacks, released immediately afterwards, and people in areas with suspected links to the hijackers(and terrorists in general) come down with the disease, yet we're looking for "loners."

I love how they have these profilers, who always trot out the same profile for every crime that isn't a gangland hit, and act like they have something for us.

Um, I don't know guys, you think maybe if the anthrax has an additive that is only found in a few state labs, and that the wife of one of the editors of Amer. Media rented out an apartment to two of these guys, might mean that you can't blame it on those darn militia and/or wacko-types that you like to incinerate, or whose women you like to snipe?

Granted. And I suspect that state has ties with Bin Laden. Yet, the anthrax was mailed within the United States and the perpetrator could very well still be here.

Incidentally, I write in all capitals and express true capitals by writing them a bit larger than the rest. It is a habit I picked up about 15 years ago trying to emulate the very legible writing of an engineer/draftsman in my office. This practice reduces error in the field.

"One letter to Brokaw, but nothing sent to Dan Rather?"

If I remember correctly, a female in Rather's office contracted cutaneous anthrax on her face from a letter sent to Rather. Rather also stated on national TV that the anthrax infection was "unresponsive to penicillin," but as far as I know, the female is now OK after treatment with Cipro.

Gee, I wonder.......

(10-19-01) News Max U.S. Tightens Travel Restrictions for Cuban diplomats in D.C. (Text) WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has tightened travel restrictions on Cuban diplomats working in Washington, the State Department said Friday. Officials based at the Cuban Interests Section will have to give the government 72 hours' notice if they want to travel outside a 273-square-mile area around Washington, deputy spokesman Philip Reeker said.

Previously the travel limit was 1,961 square miles.

The changes were made to conform with travel restrictions that U.S. diplomats have faced in Havana, Reeker said. They took effect Tuesday.

There was no explanation for the timing of the changes. The Bush administration has advocated a tougher line with Fidel Castro's communist government than the Clinton administration had.

The new restrictions will limit the free movement of Cuban diplomats generally to the area inside the Capital Beltway, the highway that surrounds Washington. That's roughly a 10-mile radius from the White House and includes areas of Virginia and Maryland. The Cubans also will be allowed to travel outside the Beltway to Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

Those wishing to travel outside the restricted area may do so by giving 72 hours' notice. They can travel if the government does not object.

There was no immediate comment from the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana or the Cuban Interests Section.

Cuba and the United States do not have diplomatic relations, so the interests sections serve as the equivalent of embassies. The State Department said Cuba has 25 diplomats in Washington, and the United States has 52 in Havana.

Did you all know that al Qaeda has infiltrated the US Army Green Berets and the JFK Special Warfare school at Ft. Bragg? Wouldn't surprise me if they have someone in Central Command at MacDill, either (Tampa). There's also a good possibility they infiltrated Patrick AFB too in Melbourne, Florida (where the US State Dept. bases their drug crop-dusters).

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=ALIMOHAMED-10-24-01&cat=AN

(Dec 2001) Insight Magazine Fidel May Be Part of Terror Campaign--[Excerpt] Three Afghani nationals and suspected al-Qaeda members caught trying to deposit $2 million in a bank in the Cayman Islands last August were found to have entered the British colony on a commercial flight from nearby Cuba using false Pakistani passports. British authorities who arrested the three men believe that they were handling drug proceeds laundered in Havana.

Colombia's former national police chief, Gen. Rosso José Serrano, maintains that Cuba also has facilitated contacts between radical Muslim militants and leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Serrano says that about 100 Afghanis have entered Colombia during the last decade to introduce cultivation of heroin poppies in guerrilla-held areas. An Egyptian terrorist belonging to al-Gamal al-Islamiya - who was wanted in connection with the 1997 massacre of 80 Western tourists near Cairo - entered Colombia illegally in 1998 to hold talks with FARC and was arrested and turned over to U.S. authorities.

Cuban biological/chemical-warfare technology also has been detected in Colombia. A FARC bomb that burned out the lungs of an entire police garrison in the Colombian town of San Adolfo last September contained chlorine-based poison gas, according to a lab analysis of the device. Some 20 Cuban military advisers currently are operating with FARC, according to Colombian army intelligence. It also has intercepted guerrilla radio communications in which FARC's military commander, Jorge Briceno, alias "Mono Jojoy," talks about forming an "anti-imperialist front" to launch terrorist attacks against targets in the United States. "To take away their economic resources wherever they may be, reach into North America and get to their own territory," says Briceno, "to make them feel the pain which they have inflicted on others."

In September, meanwhile, as Montes frantically transmitted information to her DGI spymasters through Cuba's mission to the United Nations, according to an FBI affidavit, Castro was ordering a military alert in Cuba and calling up reserves. A CIA psychiatric profiler who has studied Castro's personality believes that the Cuban dictator was displaying "geriatric overexertion." But top intelligence specialists tell Insight that Castro may have had reasons to fear a possible U.S. retaliation when President George W. Bush declared his war on terrorism. [End Excerpt]--Much more in column.

Middle-aged, educated, loner male, not a Muslim, dislikes public confrontations.

Where does it say "not a Muslim" ???

thanks for spreading the word, and... good morning, CW : )

Exactly Raven; it doesn't say "not a Muslim" anywhere; in fact, this personality type sounds like the unbalanced terrorist. They have also not ruled out ties to terrorist groups, and that strikes me as the most likely.

I've always thought it was someone in or tied to the terrorists. Just where does the average deviant personality type come up with anthrax, and the finely tuned version more specifically?

With all that they know, it points more and more conclusively at someone involved with terrorism. (Loose slips slink hips) does anybody really believe this latest craze that top secret military info is being dumped here? What a hoot!

Indexing.

"It sounds like they are looking for a Tim McVeigh type" Imagine how bad it would be if that turns out to be the case ...

Which member of Bush's cabinet is responsible for the FBI?