Thanks to piasa for this additional info - quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201071/posts?page=5#5
To: NormsRevenge; Cindy
2001? SOMETIME BEFORE 9/11 : (INDIANA : A SERIES OF HOAX ANTHRAX LETTERS IS SENT OUT FROM INDIANAPOLIS) before September 11, 2001: In a story seemingly unreported anywhere else, the New York Post later claims that a series of hoax anthrax letters is sent out from Indianapolis, Indiana, at some point before 9/11. The FBI allowed the Post to see copies of these letters, which had handwriting and other features remarkably similar to the later [OCT 2001] letters containing real anthrax. [New York Post, 11/1/01]
NOTE THAT IT WAS THE INDANPOLIS OFFICE OF THE FBI THAT SENT A TIP ABOUT AL MARRI THE “STEAMER CHEST GUY” TO THE FBI OFFICE IN ILLINOIS:
SEPTEMBER 2001 : (ILLINOIS : FBI INVESTIGATES AL-MARRI AND THE STEAMER CHEST——See BRIDGEVIEW IL CELL)Like so many other Middle Eastern men living in the US at the time, Ali Salem Kahlah Al-Marri became a so-called person of interest to the FBI within a week of the Sept. 11 attacks. The FBI office in Peoria had received a lead from its Indianapolis office regarding a steamer chest that Al-Marri had shipped to the US. The Peoria office also had gotten a call from a salesman at US Cellular who expressed concerns regarding Al-Marri’s cell phone account. FBI agents Nicholas Zambeck and Robert Brown began a preliminary investigation and discovered that the Social Security number used by Al-Marri also was being used by two others, someone in California and someone in Illinois. They also found a discrepancy in the date of birth on his enrollment form at Bradley. Al-Marri had first said he was born Feb. 3, 1965, and on a later form listed his date of birth as Sept. 24, 1965. - “Mystery man in 9/11 terror case-Who is Ali Al-Marri? FBI links him to hijackers,” by RICHARD T. PIENCIAK, New York Daily News 1/12/03
OCTOBER 2, 2001 : (WEST PEORIA, IL : FBI HAS FIRST INTERVIEW WITH AL MARRI) Al-Marri was accused in the indictment of lying to the FBI during an Oct. 2, 2001, interview when he told agents that he arrived in the United States on Sept. 10, 2001, and that it was his first visit since 1991. The indictment said he had been in the country during 2000. - “Terror suspect named as ‘enemy combatant,’ By Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, Published June 24, 2003
4 posted on March 7, 2009 4:43:29 AM PST by piasa
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The anthrax hoax letters sent before 9/11 from Indianapolis were these- maybe someone has more info:
AUGUST 2001 (MORE THREATENING LETTERS SIMILAR TO ANTHRAX LETTERS LATER MAILED TO DASCHLE AND BROKAW ARRIVE AT FOX ADDRESSED TO SEAN HANNITY) 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 [OCT 31, 2001] that some of its equipment is contaminated with anthrax.
Hannity said that he’d begun receiving the suspicious mail last winter [2000late-early2001?] and again in August [2001].
“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 have also been reported. Hannity said he hasn’t gotten any more of the letters since the Sept. 11 attacks and hasn’t been tested for anthrax exposure. -—————FROM AN ARTICLE DATED Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001VIA 38 posted on 09/05/2003 9:38 AM PDT by Princeton | To 37
5 posted on March 7, 2009 5:01:57 AM PST by piasa
March 10, 2009
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/March/09-nsd-209.html
Ali Al-Marri Transferred to U.S. Marshals Service Custody
WASHINGTON – Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, 43, has been released from detention by the Secretary of Defense and is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance today, the Justice Department announced.
Al-Marri was served with an arrest warrant this morning at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, and taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service. He is scheduled to make his initial appearance at 10 a.m. today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert S. Carr in federal court in Charleston.
On Feb. 26, 2009, a federal grand jury in the Central District of Illinois returned a two-count indictment charging al-Marri with providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiring with others to provide material support to al-Qaeda. The public is reminded that the charges contained in an indictment are mere allegations and each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.
The United States will seek to keep al-Marri detained pending his transfer to Illinois and his trial. After his initial court appearance today, al-Marri will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending his next court appearance.
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