[Alamo-Girl]

Please post your research, observations, etc. Thanks to all Freepers and Lurkers!

[Nogbad]

I am extraordinarily puzzled. You continually write The perp. Why the singular ?

[Alamo-Girl]

Refreshed thread... for your information

[Sabertooth]

Bump

[Nogbad]

You omit one fact that must be emphasized:

Several anthrax letters were mailed from New Jersey
and at least one was mailed from Florida, not far from where Atta lived.

Ponder this before you think about anything else.

[Sunshine55]

You all are awesome, as usual :)

[Nita Nupress]

ping

[Dolphy]

I read through each message on the link provided (making money on the internet, send directions) and couldn't help but conclude that this is some kind of coded exchange. Not only are there a few breaks in the original message, one is simply different, more urgent. It also strikes me that they came in intervals, and that there is no posting since the end of October. I am going to go through that more slowly tomorrow to jot down additional thoughts. Right now, it's the format, the break, and the last date that have my attention.

Has there been any consideration given to the targets? Many are quick to blame right wing fringe group or person, but wouldn't their target be someone like Senator Clinton or Kennedy or one of those types. Why Leahy? Perhaps the mailings are issue specific.

[No_Doll_i]

You are an amazing human, do you have a job? Do you need an assistant? Thanks for all you do!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I know you have spent a lot of time on the subject of anthrax, this might "ring" some bells with you.
I'd suggest letting Alamo-Girl know if it does.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

My turn to thank you for the heads up!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

FBI Website

FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Page With Pictures

Click Here To Report Suspicious Activity to the FBI

Call the FBI Toll Free at 1-866-483-5137
if you see or hear anything that threatens our national security.

[Don Joe]

Before there was a World Wide Web, there was "gopher space" and "gopher tunnels". The WWW was inspired by the gopher world, and expanded on the concepts. The gopher protocol was very simple -- the servers would manage pages that were either menus, or text pages. Navigation consisted of going from menu to menu to menu to get to the data you were looking for.

There used to be a variety of gopher clients available, but most people accessed the gophers by telneting to a Unix shell account and running a client local to the server.

Out of nostalgia and curiosity, I spent some time nosing around to see if there were still any gopher sites up and running. It seems like there aren't many left. I did finally find a list of "All the Gopher Servers in the World" from http://www.alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/gophers.html (all the other gopher servers from that page are dead.)

The root at that site is "Gopher root at gopher.tc.umn.edu" in case anyone is curious. It has a search page (there were lots of gopher search utilities back in the protocol's heyday), and has menu items for other search and index sites.

Why do I mention this here?

Because as I was nosing around, it suddenly occurred to me that a global network of servers (albeit sparse) might be something that some unsavory characters might find convenient. IOW, there might be some stuff of interest there, "hidden in plain sight" as it were.

This may be a lode of unexplored territory.

If anyone feels like exploring, the link above would be a good starting point. Don't be surprised (or discouraged) if most of the gophers are dead.

Internet Explorer supports the gopher protocol. I don't know if "Brand N" does, or if any of the other alternative browsers do. I think Lynx supports it, but don't quote me on that. And there may still be a gopher client or two available for download from tucows or some FTP site somewhere.

[callisto]

Excellent analysis of the data gathered so far!!!! I don't know why but I'm left with the feeling that there's something critical missing. My mind does that every now and again, so I'll think about it and add to your post after a bit. Time to review the Anthrax_Scare _List and maybe I'll recall what my mind sees missing. You've really outdone yourself culling together the profile of the perp.!!

[dano1]

The perp is here on a student VISA. He is Islamic and Middle Eastern. He may be a member of Al Queda. English is not his primary language.

I agree. I also speculate that just prior to the 9/11 attacks, the organization became aware that Atta had developed a strong grudge against someone associated with the Florida tabloid due to some precieved personal affront which was becoming an obsession for Atta. The affront may have had to do with a precieved slight on the part of a woman. I further speculate that, wishing to calm down Atta and/or to cement his resolve for the coming mission, the organization tossed Atta a sop by sending the letter to the American Media Corporation. Atta may have been present while the letter was prepared, or Atta may have posted the letter himself. Because this letter was not a priority to the organization, they did not use their best Anthrax for this letter. I don't think the FBI has released the text of the letter that went to the Florida tabloid, if it's even survived, but I'd bet the text and tone of that letter was different than the other letters.

[archy]

Note also that the Rhodesian [now Zimbabwe] Anthrax outbreak which resulted in some 10K fatalities from 1978-80, as described in Dr. Meryl Nass's report, occurred in the same approximate timeframe as that of the April 1979 Soviet *laboratory accident* at Sverdlovsk [now Ekaterinburg] which reportedly affected 94 people and killed at least 64 of them. The limited scope of the Soviet outbreak in which the first victim died after four days with the last one dying six weeks later also appears more similar to the effects of the US *anthrax mail bombs*, though that may in part be explained by the probability that the intended target in Rhodesia was that country's cattle farmers, with the fatalities a result of ingestion of the meat from fatally diseased cattle.

[zeaal]

To the competing theory ...

BioPort’s Board of Directors

Fuad El-Hibri (Chairman and CEO)
Robert G. Kramer (President & COO)
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. (USN Retired)
Dr. Robert C. Myers (Executive Vice-President, CSO)

For your consideration.

[rwfromkansas]

whewww

[gumbo]

Great job (as usual)! You've compiled a lot of information, including much I hadn't seen yet -- and I try to read ALL anthrax-related articles. Thanks for all your work!

[nunya bidness]

Outstanding work as usual. Please keep me posted as this develops.

[Leper Messiah]

First time I have seen this bump.