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Exactly! ~ Now, think backwords on this. If the attack was designed to shut down critical postal facilities (as "critical" might be imagined in the AlQaida mind, if not our own), you get whatever facilities Congress uses (Senate mail room for example), you get the facility used by US Government headquarters agencies, and you knock out the AMF at Dulles, and/or the AMF at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, JFK and Laguardia in New York, and maybe a couple of airlines as well. (AMF = Air Mail Facility).

In most countries that would be a definitive attack. In the US it's not, but most foreigners simply fail to comprehend how big the American empire really is!

To get this scenario to work (at the destination), AlQaida would have to arrange for mailing to take place in an area where the First Class Mail carrying aircraft would land at IAD or DCA. West Palm Beach area would be perfect for this, and Boca Raton is a logical spot to begin. In fact, the first element of the Anthrax Attack appeared in this area.

Note here that it was AlQaida's intent (under this hypothesis) to send the anthrax in a manner that it would leak out along the route, or possibly almost explode upon the opening of the envelope.

What AlQaida's planners did not plan on was the absolutely abominable way single piece First Class Mail not bearing a barcode is handled in the US Postal Service mail processing systems.

AlQaida's agents dropped their envelopes in a street collection box on September 7 or September 8, 2001 in Boca Raton. They were picked up sometime Saturday. These letters were the only contents of that box and therefore of the mail tray sitting in the bottom of the box.

Through dint of normal processing USPS managed to enclose all but one of the letters in empty MTE (Mail Transport Equipment) which is normally sent from South Florida locations to the Philadelphia BMC and then on to various MPCs and AOs needing empty equipment.

The letters were not only delayed a number of days beyond the attack date of 9/11, they ended up being transported by "truck", not "plane", from New Jersey to Washington DC and New York! Consequently the letters were not handled at critical AMFs (which could have resulted as well in the closure of all terminal operations at DCA, DIA, JFK, LGA, etc.) They were still handled at two mail processing facilities, one of which was just reopened.

Leahy, etc., were not the targets ~ just the USPS, the serving airlines, and the terminal complexes at several major American airports with world reknown.

Althugh "Mitchell" disputes my contentions regarding a certain Website that could be the source of the addresses used for the Anthrax Attack letters, that particular Website contains enough other static information to provide even the most cursory analyst with the identities of the most likely targets to intercept with an Anthrax Attack Vehicle.