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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.

The emphasis on the ATTA ATT jumped out at me, too.

My immediate reaction was that Atta wrote those letters prior to 9/11 (to be mailed by someone else later) and left a clue so the world would know he sent them.

Remember, he sought treatment for very red hands that the pharmacist thought looked like a chemical burn. Strong Clorox solution?