Brief Internet Investigation of The Brokaw and Daschle Letters

FR and the net | 10/19/01 | OWK

[OWK]

I did some sleuthing this morning.

Some interesting observations (not sure if they mean anything)... but here goes.

The return address on the Daschle letter was fictitious. It did however, contain a zipcode which was NOT fictitious. The zipcode (08852) is one code over from the code of the US Post Office which processed the Daschle and Brokaw letters.

The Post Office in question is just off US Route 1 in Hamilton Township. Just about 7 miles north of the Post Office, (and also on US Route 1) is the Building of the Islamic Society of Central Jersey containing a mosque (which curiously enough resides in zipcode 08852).

Imam Hamid Ahmad Chebli, is the spiritual director of the Islamic Society of Central New Jersey. Many of the members of the society are first-generation immigrants, drawn to universities and professional jobs in the Central Jersey corridor, from Trenton to New Brunswick. Chebli is a native of Lebanon, Shaikh (another member) is from India and Ahmed (yet another) from Pakistan. There are first-generation immigrants from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other African nations, and second generations from Jersey City (a hotbed of Islamic terror activities in the US according to the FBI), Newark and Elizabeth.

I can see someone maybe driving a bit before mailing such a letter... and I can even see making up a phony return address. But to know valid zipcodes in the area would likely mean that the sender is local. Maybe he was even foolish enough to use his own zipcode.

If I was the FBI... I'd be taking the drive a few miles north and checking out the Islamic Center of Central Jersey in Monmouth Junction real quick like.

[OWK]

Still looking around for details.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Perhaps, but such evidence is very circumstantial. Just as likely the mailer could have chosen that zip as a cover, to implicate the mosque and muslim community there when they had nothing to do with it. Makes sense if the mailer was a militia-type or the Arkansas mafia, or even if it was a terrorist. It seems clear these terrorists are trying to incite a US vs. Muslim war, so falsely implicating innocent muslim groups would be one of their goals.

[Daus]

There you go... racial profiling! :) Good for you.

If they were in on it, someone forgot to tell the Sheik!

Please see below important statements by Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders and by Metropolitan Philip, head of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in North America.

Standing Conference of Middle Eastern
Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders

For Immediate Release:
September 13, 2001

We were very saddened and shocked, like all American citizens and decent people around the world, by the devastating and horrible attack against the United States of America. 

It has come to our attention that some Arab Americans in various cities such as Brooklyn, New York; Paterson, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California and other cities have been victims of psychological terrorism, i.e. threatening and obscene phone calls, etc.  This is indeed very disturbing and blatant discrimination.  Arab Americans are very loyal citizens and strongly committed to the eternal ideals and principles of freedom, peace and justice on which our country was founded.  Many of them have died for America in the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean and Viet Nam Wars. Let us not forget that Arab American also died in the World Trade Center explosion and some were on the hijacked planes.

As Arab American religious leaders from Middle Eastern background, we want everyone to know that the members of our constituencies, Christians and Muslims alike, are people of faith.  Neither Christianity nor Islam condones violence and terrorism.  As a matter of fact many Arab people in the Middle East have been victims of individual, group and state terrorism for the past fifty-four years.

Therefore, this is not a time to point fingers and accuse innocent people of violence and evil acts.  When we overcome our grief and after the dust settles, let us as intelligent Americans ask ourselves, who is behind this horrific act and why this act was committed?  These are the important questions which should be answered in depth.  Then and only then, will we know the facts and the real cause of terrorism. 

May the souls of our sisters and brothers who have perished in this catastrophe rest in peace and may God protect and bless America. 

 

Metropolitan Philip, Chairman – Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America

Bishop Stephen Doueihi, Eparchary of Saint Maron of Brooklyn

Archbishop John A. Elya, Diocese of Newton

Sheikh Sami T. Merhi, Druze Council of North America

Sheikh Hamad Ahmad Chebli, Islamic Society of Central New Jersey

Archbishop Cyril Aphrem Karim, Syrian Orthodox Church

Imam Fadhel Al-Sahlani, Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center

 

Cc: All US Government Officials

Statement of the Primate of the

[Doctor Stochastic]

And the sum of the digits 0+8+8+5+2 is 23. Not only a prime number, but the dimension of the largest perfect binary error-correcting code constructed from quadratic residues.

[Daus]

Though there is some irony in this link.... The now deceased Sheikh Hamad Ahmad Chebli on his solidarity with the Palestinians.

[DallasDeb]

Earlier today, the news was reporting that a postal worker has tested positive BUT WAS NOT AT WORK THE DAY THE LETTER CAME THROUGH. This is an indication that she contracted the anthrax somewhere along her route. The authorities are now checking out mailboxes in her route to see if anthrax is present in any of them. Authorities consider this a BIG break.

[OWK]

If they were in on it, someone forgot to tell the Sheik!

Would that come as a huge surprise?

[callisto]

Look here for the latest on the mail

[Constitution Day]

I bow to your superior mathematical expertise!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ah, but you must take the next step to the greater dimension, the implied missing starter of the thread 2 3 is 1. Add 1 2 3 to the evil 13 and you get: 19!

3 of the 4 hijacking groups had 5 members, but the 4th had only 4, making a total of: 19! Again, the missing 1 is the key.

Moving on to the plateau dimension of numerology, one notes that the three whole hijacking cells were 555! So clearly it all points to Calypso Louie as the pivotal figure. Louie Louie Louie is the missing 1, and cannot be allowed to align with the temple of the moon in the coming meteor shower, or else all hell will break loose, as per Nostradamus, St. Malarchy, and South Park Uncut.

[bureaucrud]

ROFLMBO!!! You HAVE to be one of the old-time looney-toon theoretical mathematics majors from the '60s! Really split a gut with that one. Thanks!

[okiedust]

Some interesting observations. Perhaps using one's own zip code is in fact the Abdul factor at work. Kind of like the bozos who tried to blow up the WTC the first time got caught trying to get their deposit back on the rental van they had just destroyed. Interesting.

regards

[OWK]

Just a little reminder, as the focus of the FBI's investigation becomes more precise.

[JohnGalt]

Here's a piece from todays The Federalist e-mail:

In our estimation, the limited mail contaminations are an attempt by a clever adversary (the Al Qaeda faction has formidable strategic planners among its ranks) to assess our national capability to respond to biological threats in advance of, say, mailing 20,000 anthrax-laced envelopes from many different locations around the nation on the same day. The early mailings -- with the media's sensational assistance -- could also serve to weaken our national will to recover from a massive attack -- soften the beaches in preparation for invasion.

Bin Laden has aptly demonstrated that Jihadistan is serious in its war against the West, and will not rest until the U.S. economy is in collapse, theorizing that such a collapse will greatly diminish U.S. influence in the Middle East. Intelligence analysts close to the investigation tell The Federalist that the most probable scenario remains that some quantity of weaponized anthrax (processed with desiccant to facilitate airborne suspension) has been obtained by bin Laden's cadre from Iraqi intelligence and provided to Al Queda operatives, who have, in turn, provided it to pre-positioned cells of Islamic extremists in U.S. suburbs -- now awaiting bin Laden's instructions. (Secondary to that analysis is the credible threat that an anarchist -- the Unaplaguer The Federalist has pegged him -- is distributing anthrax by mail on the coattails of the Jihadistan assault.)

[Stentor]

Wonder what the composition of the faculty and student body at Princeton University is these days. Princeton is right up the highway a few miles.

[Stentor]

One other item. There is an ag experimental station at Cook college of Rutgers university in New Brunswick. Don't know if they do animal work.

[anymouse]

Good sleuthing OWK.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I can see someone maybe driving a bit before mailing such a letter... and I can even see making up a phony return address. But to know valid zipcodes in the area would likely mean that the sender is local. Maybe he was even foolish enough to use his own zipcode

OWK, you may well be right, I'm not saying you're not. But... it isn't that hard to look up valid zipcodes on the web. I do it all the time. You give me a valid address and I can get you a valid zip code. I'm not sure that a valid zip code indicates anything other than access to a computer, a post office or a zip code directory.

[Righty1]

Don't forget Detroit. A feint by the NJ bunch followed by a roundhouse from the motor aka tent city would make strategic sense. This would be especially effective in putting Americans at each others throats. The jihadists could use anthrax or truck bomb a major sporting event in the area. This is the "eating the seed corn stage" as the Detroit area is a major financial (coupon fraud, charitable donations, and illegals smuggling) supporter of the jihad.