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"...who held onto them for exactly one month and mailed them on 10/9."

Okay, amend that a bit. I checked with an epidemiology study done by UCLA and got the "definitive" (i.e., best guess) list of letters. There were five letters mailed 9/18, exactly one week after 9/11. All five were sent to the media: American Media, the NY Post, NBC, ABC and CBS. The Daschle and Leahy letters, which contained superior anthrax and a different message, were mailed 10/9.

The aforementioned study, by the way, is very much worth reading. It also contains a link to another excellent site, anthraxinvestigation.com. That site's author is altogether too quick to pooh-pooh the al-Qaeda and Iraq links, but aside from that he's written a lot of thought-provoking material.

AMI workers and Bob Steven's physicians concur that his exposure was probably from a suspicious package containing an obscene letter and a tobacco tin holding a Star of David buried in powder. The letter was received about one week before 9/11, but was deemed suspicious and Stevens did not examine it until the 19th. Had the letter been opened on arrival, the anthrax cases at AMI would have started on or shortly after 9/11. The timing, combined with the lack of warning or self-identification and the fact that the anthrax aerosolized readily, unlike that in subsequent media letters, suggests this incident may have been intended as a lethality demonstration or "calling card" rather than a warning.

The editor of The Sun, Michael Irish, is a private pilot who flies out of the Lantana airfield where Mohammed Atta practiced for the WTC attacks. His wife, Gloria Irish, is a realtor who found apartments near AMI for several of the hijackers, and had numerous contacts with them in the run-up to their destruction of the World Trade Center.

The FBI chooses not to discuss or explore the AMI incident on the AMERITHRAX web-site. AMI officials believe the FBI has not been frank with AMI's employees about the nature of the attack, and discounts the domestic loner premise which is, for public consumption at least, the focus of the AMERITHRAX investigation.