[ZacandPook]

As for the reason for targeting the particular Senators.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze43v8m/alqaeda,anthraxd.html#Leahy%20Law

Indeed, targeting the top legislator and the security law person was exactly their pattern and modus operandi in the 1990s in Egypt.

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze43v8m/alqaedaanthraxay.html#TargetedAssassination

[muawiyah]

The attack was made against a far larger scale of targets than a couple of guys in Congress (referring only to the DC targets).

There are three major airports in the DC area. The main post office servicing US government headquarters agencies, plus Congress and the White House are located there.

The routing that would be followed by the letters directed against any two Senators would take them through the 2 main DC area airports, the main post office, the facilities directly supporting Congress, the CIA, the DOD, etc.

The ceremonial aspect of the situation was the feeble attempt to "blame the Jews" ~ which pretty much gives you the AlQaida connection (if nothing else did). That was when they used the addresses of two US Senators (Dascle and Leahy) and one major TV news guy (Brokaw) in the exact same, but otherwise nonstandard and unusual, format they had appeared in a website store (about a totally different topic) maintained by Jews for Life.

I hope everybody remembers the immediate ME response was, of course, that "the Jews did it".