[John H K]

This news does seem to let Steve Hatfill off the hook, doesn't it? I wonder if that explains the timing.

Why gosh, yes it does....everyone knows that it's IMPOSSIBLE to drive 3 hours from Frederick MD to Princeton NJ, and 3 hours back, to mail anthrax letters. I've never heard of anyone driving that far in my life.

Seriously, Trenton/Princeton NJ is the precise distance of a 6-7 hour day trip from Frederick, MD, if you wanted to drive far enough away from your house to make a mail attack and not attract suspicion to yourself, but still have you gone for a brief enough period of time that it's not noticed.

If I were mailing anthrax letters, I'd drive about 3-4 hours away, mail them, and drive back.

[eno_]

You would drive 4 hours away, but still be dumb enough to mail them from a commercial/university main street with dozens of shops that might have surveillance cameras and where parking is tough to find? I've been there many times, and it would not be my first choice for a place not to be noticed.

Any Moslem profs or grad students within walking distance? Or is Hatfill such an Evil Genius he drove to Princeton to frame someone?

[aristeides]

Why, if it was Hatfill, would he drive to downtown Princeton, a few miles from the New Jersey Turnpike? Why, if he did that, would he put on the envelope as a return address Franklin Park together with the Zip Code for the adjoining Monmouth Junction (which just happens to be where the main mosque in the area is)? That sounds like the sort of a mistake a local would make, not someone researching for a return address in books or on the Internet.