[Battle Axe]

And then there is the question....why just those two senators?

Same deal as AMI and the NYT. The perps are foreign born Arabs. They do not understand our culture at all. Atta didn't either. One of the most telling insights is the account of the USDA woman who interviewed Atta on the spray plane deal. Atta thought she could open the safe behind her and dish out the money.

I had a Danish roomie in college who also thought the tabloids were an important, respected part of our culture. She said...they were up there by the cash register, so they must be important.
If those two senators were in the news a great deal, then they also must be important. If the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was intended for the White House, then there was no need to send a letter there. Otherwise, why wouldn't they have sent one there.

[muawiyah]

One of my most difficult battles in working with this thesis is getting across to my fellow Freepers that AMI publications are:

1. NOT America's most important newspapers, and

2. They ARE, on the other hand, extremely influential, particularly with people with limited skills in English.

It's not even a class thing ~ more cultural.

[jpl]

My theory (admittedly with no evidence to back it up) is the Islamic terrorists found out the building was the center of "American Media, Inc", and being ignorant of our culture as has been correctly noted, thought that they had hit the nerve center mother lode of American journalism. It wouldn't surprise me much if they really believed that they could cripple the American press by taking out this building. They thought they could cripple our economy by attacking the World Trade Center.

But regardless of whether or not I'm right about this, from the beginning it never made one iota of sense that a sophisticated American scientist who presumably lives and/or works somewhere in the northeast corridor would for some strange reason choose THAT place to send an anthrax letter to, along with Congress and some major media outlets.