[Fearless Flyers]

There are lots of articles out today about this profile released by the FBI. All of them seem to point in a different direction, so here is an opinion you won’t read in the papers or see in the news.

A mature male, educated loner, with grievance against the government, who would take precautions to protect him self. This sounds like an eco-terrorist possibly another Ted Kinsinski who is a flaming liberal that shares the same views as Al Gore.

The obvious question, is Al Gore under investigation? Considering the Supreme Court Building was closed down because of Anthrax contamination, I do not believe this question is out of line. Who else has a bigger grievance against the Supreme Court?

[prisoner6]

A mature male, educated loner, with grievance against the government, who would take precautions to protect him self.

HEY! QUIT TALKING ABOUT ME!

Sorry could not make the letters slant downhill.

I'm kidding! REALLY!

Is Carnivore still checking us out?

prisoner6

[Yougottabekidding]

So, DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THIS IS THE SAME INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS MANAGED TO INFECT PEOPLE IN RUSSIA, FRANCE, GERMANY...WITH ANTHRAX?

[DonPaulJones]

"It is highly probable, bordering on certainty, that all three letters were authored by the same person. Letters 1 and 2 are identical copies. Letter 3, however, contains a somewhat different message than the other letters. The Anthrax utilized in Letter 3 was much more refined, more potent, and more easily disbursed than letters 1 and 2.

Questions: How long (I have no idea, my last science class was in 1985) does it take to develop the anthrax from the grade in the first two letters to the grade in the third letter? Level of increased or sophisticated training necessary to accomplish this increased potency and transmitability? A time line may just show that there are two distinct entities or individuals doing this... Yet they say there is only one? Hmmm.

[Asmodeus]

[Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi]

* may be living in a remote moutain cave with other fantasy-prone, physically unattractive schizoid men

* exhibits sudden emotional outbursts of ranting peppered with long-winded, rambling, citations from The Koran

* is often seen with an oily towel on his head

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[onyx]

BUMP for tonight's read.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

In Letters #2 and #3, the emboldened letters from the bottom up read, ATTA ATT. The shape of the emboldenments seem to indicate the kind of Calligraphy a cleric uses when printing theological directives or documents. In Arabic as well as Hebrew, writing, as if you were writing a letter to a family member, is completely different in style than the kind of block print used in Hebrew and Arabic texts. Both are written from right to left which looks like the writer of letter #2 had a major problem with. But the writer of #1 had straight clean lines, and gentler touch, and seemed much more familiar with writing in English. If I had to throw down the gauntlet, I would bet that 2 was, in fact, printed by a cleric and rather than struggle with it again, it was copied. But the ATTA ATT is unmistakeable. There are other things worth noticing. The arrangement of the numbers in the dates, for instance. Someone used to writing from right to left would have the rear 1 on the 11 higher than the first 1. The English writer has it larger going from left to right.

[Rustynailww]

anyone have that picture rush had of the average freeper?

[Terrorista Nada]

No doubt about it ... all 3 written by a left handed Arab living in Afghanistan.

[Media2Powerful]

If I'm not mistaken, both were mailed on a Tuesday. One week after 9-ll and one month after 9-ll. I wonder if a key player in all this terror has Tuesday off work, or if Tuesday is significant for some other reason.

[VaBthang4]

"i.e., microscope, centrifuge, etc."

If they have the manpower the FBI should try and find every manufacturer of these items and is tracking their dispersal throughout the United States as well as try to identify every single purchase made within the past year?

It can be done.

[FreedomSurge]

Am I mistaken or did the FBI just conclude that Richard Jewel is behind all of this??

[Cinnamon Girl]

[fnord]

One very credible (to me) hypothesis is that these letters were sent by two different individuals! Note the differences between first 2 and last one:

• mailed different date
• return address only on 3rd letter
• much more specific addressee on 3rd letter
• higher grade anthrax (does the perp have several different grades of anthrax laying around ?!)

I would like to see any other letters received, especially the early ones (there may be copycats a-working). I think the dissimilarities are at least as interesting as the similarities.

[layman]

I am a right-handed person who lost my right hand in an accident. I write left-handed now, and my left-handed writing has no resemblance to what my right-handed writing used to be.

If I was an anthrax mailer, I would write with my opposite hand. It is much easier to 'print' with the opposite hand than write in script. If the anthrax mailer did this, then the writing analysis is worthless. The rest of the profile, though, may be valid.

[vetvetdoug]

My two cents for what it is worth:
The person studied Microbiology as a graduate student at a major university that had stock supplies of anthrax.
The person was a Teacher's assistant at that college and was likely from a Muslim country and of Arabic origin.
The person was hard to understand as a teacher's assistant and received much criticism and ostricism from the Anglo-American students.
The person was recruited by the terrorist network and received payment for services
This person is no longer in the US.

[anniegetyourgun]

FBI Profile: Anthrax Mailer Probably a Man With a Grudge
By David Pace Associated Press Writer
Published: Nov 9, 2001

WASHINGTON (AP) - The anthrax mailings probably are the work of a man who is familiar with hazardous material, works where he has little contact with other people and may have held a grudge against the addressees, the FBI said Friday. In a fresh appeal to the public for help in solving the anthrax mailings, FBI officials released a profile of the suspected mailer.

The profile, developed by the agency's behavioral experts, does not address the question of whether the person is foreign or from the United States.

FBI officials said the person may work in a laboratory and "is apparently comfortable working with extremely hazardous material. He probably has a scientific background to some extent, or at least a strong interest in science."

The person "did not select his victims randomly," making the effort to find the correct address and ZIP code of each victim and ensuring that proper postage was used.

NBC, the New York Post and Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., were selected, the FBI said, because "these targets are probably very important to the offender. They may have been the focus of previous expressions of contempt which may have been communicated to others or observed by others."

The FBI has come under public criticism for its inability to answer many of the questions surrounding the anthrax attacks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., took the bureau to task at a congressional hearing this week. Feinstein received an FBI briefing Friday afternoon that lasted so long it delayed a briefing for the news media by nearly an hour.

While profiling the suspect in some detail, the FBI said it has reached no conclusions.

"No suspects are ruled out," said FBI behavior analyst Jim Fitzgerald. "No groups are ruled out. There's a possibility it's al-Qaida-related. There is no direct or clear linkage between this incident and any cell or network."

The person who mailed the letters "lacks the personal skills necessary to confront others," the FBI said, suggesting that the man may have held a grudge against the targets for a long time.

After the Sept. 11 hijacker attacks, FBI officials said the person may have become more secretive and changed his usual pattern of activity.

"He may have displayed a passive disinterest in the events which otherwise captivated the nation," the FBI said. "He also may have started taking antibiotics unexpectedly."

During the anthrax mailings and the intense media coverage, the man may have altered his physical appearance, displayed pronounced anxiety or noticeable mood swings, and appeared more withdrawn or unusually preoccupied, the profile said.

[syriacus]

He may hold grudges for a long time, vowing that he will get even with "them" one day. There are probably other, earlier examples of this type of behavior.

So, this guy might already have been a serial killer? Maybe the FBI should look for other deaths in NJ. Especially in towns near medical and pharmaceutical labs.

[SSN558]

This is the lone nut theory, they always use this one when they have nothing else to go on. The writing style sounds like someone who may have been trained in manual drafting of engineering drawings. Slanted block letters hmmmmmm.