Feds raid apartment [wearing HazMat suits - more details than CNN]

Trrnyon ^ | 11/03/01 | LARRY HANOVER, LISA CORYELL and KEVIN SHEA

[gumbo]

The federal investigation into the bioterrorism attack on America led to North Olden Avenue in Trenton yesterday, where authorities raided an apartment and detained a Pakistani man before testing the residence for anthrax.

Authorities also took swabs of a curbside mail drop box almost directly in front of the building, which they searched for about five hours. They confiscated several garbage bags of evidence.

[aristeides]

Fuld is right next to 1001 No. Olden Ave., as one can see from the map.

Isn't Kuser Road where the offices of Rep. Chris Smith and that infected accountant are?

[aristeides]

I see from this map that 1542 Kuser Rd. is on the east side of 295, towards White Horse. I think the offices of the accountant and Rep. Smith are on the west side, towards Trenton. Can anybody confirm that?

I suppose it's still possible that they're all on the same mail route. According to this morning's Trenton Times article on the accountant, Anthrax found in office's mail bin, the accountant suspects crosscontamination. Although somebody on one of yesterday's threads thought she might have been the object of a directed attack, because of her accounting work.

[browardchad]

The accounting firm where the woman got skin anthrax is located at at “the Center City Office Park off Kuser Road”, per The Trenton Times.

[browardchad]

Chaudhry, who said he is a permanent resident of the United States and has applied for citizenship, recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.

And they've just recently discovered anthrax at a Pakistani newspaper office. Just another coincidence...

[struwwelpeter]

a building in an old Polish neighborhood

Ah-ha!

[aristeides]

The anthrax mailers appear still to be sending stuff from Trenton. This from this article in today's Washington Post, White Powder Is Discovered In Unlocked Car in Bethesda:

Also yesterday, the U.S. Treasury closed a mail facility near its main building in downtown Washington after a suspicious letter was found bearing a Trenton, N.J., postmark. The letter, with a handwritten address, was not sent to any high-ranking Treasury official.

I wonder when the suspicious letter was postmarked.

[CommiesOut]

They got us...

[gumbo]

The accountants' office where the Hamilton Square woman was infected is:

Civale Silvestri & Alfieri CPA
1540 Kuser Road
Trenton, NJ 08619

The Islamic Society's chairman's office address is (per browardchad):

Dr. Parvaiz A. Malik
1542 Kuser Road
Trenton, 08619

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

[aristeides]

Thanks, they're right next door to each other. And, if the accountant was infected by crosscontaminated mail, that mail might have been crosscontaminated by outgoing mail going out of the doctor's office.

[gumbo]

yesterday, the U.S. Treasury closed a mail facility near its main building in downtown Washington after a suspicious letter was found bearing a Trenton, N.J., postmark...I wonder when the suspicious letter was postmarked.

Article above says the building's landlord had noticed FBI staking out the mail drop box nearby in "previous two days."

Letter received yesterday(?) in D.C. = letter posted from that drop box three days ago, possibly?

[Fred Mertz]

You guys are doing great work; keep it up! I've got to pay bills and do some yardwork that I've been putting off.

[Alamo-Girl]

#28 - Another great catch, gumbo! Kudos!!!

[gumbo]

You sarcastic devil you. I've got someone else doing all that dreary stuff for me, so I can spend all my time doing the important work of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

[gumbo]

Thanks, but browardchad and aristeides deserve more credit for researching the doctor/head of the Islamic Society and making links.

1540 and 1542 Kuser Road are close, but two different buildings, I believe. I think the woman accountant who contracted skin anthrax is thought to have been infected via the incoming mail tray, so it's hard to imagine how her mail and the doctor's outgoing mail would comingle.

But, there have been an awful lot of interesting coincidences in this neighborhood.

[aristeides]

Letter received yesterday(?) in D.C. = letter posted from that drop box three days ago, possibly?

I'm not sure. I wonder if mail to the Treasury might have been delayed by the closing of the Brentwood facility.

[gumbo]

OTOH, maybe the feds know there is an M.D. involved. Just noticed this statement from Mueller on the AP this morning...

"It may well be that there is somebody in the United States who is manufacturing the anthrax," he said at a news briefing. "You may be in the medical profession, you may be in some other profession that has something to do with anthrax."

[Travis McGee]

The enemy within.

[Travis McGee]

GREAT CATCH #28!!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Another great catch, gumbo! The doctor or someone he knows - using their friendship with him for cover - might have accidentally contaminated the address next door!!!

[lavrenti]

Occam's Razor slices again. Good catch.