To remind everybody of something really obvious, in most of the world the "tabloid format" is the most popular structure for daily or weekly newspapers.
This particular stable (National Enquirer, Star, etc.) is written to about an 8th grade level ~ that's so they can maximize their audience ~ that brings in foreigners with limited understanding of English.
Now, if you were an AlQaida terrorist and you wanted to find out what the most important newspaper in America might be you would....... what?
Maybe you would observe that National Enquirer is found at every cash register outlet at every grocery store in the country.
If you had limited understanding of the publishing industry ~ maybe extending no further than to having seen the local newspaper office in your home country printing it on site for example ~ you might well believe that if you attacked the headquarters with anthrax that all the newspapers coming out on Monday would be contaminated, and that all those people who read it while standing in line would die Tuesday, which would be 9/11.
The idea that the anthrax attackers went after what they thought was America's most important newspaper was arrived at by noticing that the only other newspaper attacked was ALSO in tabloid format.
The NYTimes, the Tribune group of papers, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USNews, etc. were not targeted.
One more time.
Who destroyed their collection of anthrax so that it would not be tested?
There is an eyewitness to the original theft who has been interviewed by the feds.
Witness says that a misdirected package contained what appeared to be seeds and was sent to a Pakistani at this institution where they destroyed the samples in 2001. The recipient of the package, her address, Pakistani name and she was not Pak, came down with as well as her husband, anthrax-like sores.
Package was sent three weeks after the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane. According to Steve Emerson, this was the shot heard round the world.
The Pak with the transposable address was from the same town where Jose Padilla met with KSM. There was a Pak vet student from that town also there that semester.
Witness saw three Middle Eastern men huddled over a sink the same afternoon.
The feds know it was not Hatfill. They know BHR is a kook. It is involved with politics because of Musharreff.
Real parallel: the ones who stole it and the 9-11 hijackers. Not the same people, but like people.
Read interview with USDA lady who spoke with Atta who wanted money to buy a crop dusting airplane. He simply did not understand our culture. Tabloids are close to the check out counter. In Atta's mind that would give them prominence. We know it does not.
Senators targeted were making waves at the time of the addressing of the letters. People in the news must be important. We know different.