Posted on 10/16/2001 2:07:36 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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| The FBI released this photo on October 16, 2001 showing the letters that were sent to NBC in New York and to Sen. Tom Daschle's office on Capitol Hill and were found to contain the anthrax bacteria. Anthrax was confirmed in the letter opened on October 15 in Daschle's office, but so far none of the staff in that office has tested positive for exposure to the potentially deadly bacteria, Capitol police said. REUTERS/HO/Fbi |
I have to initial and date documents all the time. Every day. If you looked at them you'd see some dates with slashes and some with hyphens. I don't know why, maybe I get bored doing it the same way all the time. But I do know that there is no universal choice that people use in the US. The hyphen vs. slash question tells us nothing.
111lll1111lllllll11111lllll11111llllll111l hmmmmm I was wondering if I hit l instead of 1 on the 1 :-). Can hardly tell the difference on the computer! My monitor is going fuzzy though. Just like my brain. LOL. (Now after previewing when it goes into print, I can really tell the difference between the 1's and the l's!)
The only other comment I can offer at the moment is that whoever has done this shows consistency in their style, dashes, printing, everything.
The person blocked the words that wouldn't fit on one line of the address. Usually I indent or string it somewhere else.
All this is silly, of course, but one little clue could help to solve the case.
Wasn't Hildebeast haf empty when Bush gave his speech calling for war?
(Adjustments could also be made as far as character 'height' to allow for differences in the varrious source images.)
161 posted on 11/17/01 1:24 PM Pacific by Shooter 2.5
Perhaps they knew the Enquirer would run with it immediately.
Things I'm now reading are causing me to re-think it was domestic, incl the ominous date, and if I remember correctly they were mailed soon after, but opened later.
Otherwise, agree with what you say about the tailed 1,. I do the same, and for the same reason. In addition to Europeans, many, if not all, Asians also do the slashed 7s.
Take care,
arkady
I believe that there's more than one author to these notes and envelopes, namely 2, and here is why.
The letters on the envelopes and notes to Dashcle and Leahy appear to have a more *round* look to the printing. Also, the zip code has the additional 4 digits after the zip code. Periods and a question mark are also on the notes.
On the Brokaw and Post envelopes and notes, the printing appears to be slightly more spread out and has a *pointy* look to the letters, if that makes any sense. There is no punctuation at all and no additional 4 digits after the zip code.
Just my opinion, though.
But look at the Daschle letter/envelope, the casual way the "G" is written, almost like a "6"; but in the same manner as the Brokaw and NYP.
As to not using the last for digits on the return address zip code (per IamHD), they probably didn't know them nor how to look them up, whereas if they pulled the addressees off a website, they would likely copy them as presented, doncha think?
For all we know these letters could have been addressed abroad and sent here for mailing, although that would require a tedious delay. I rather doubt that is the case in this instance.
Strain used in US attacks may have been from Britain
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent (Filed: 25/10/2001)
THE anthrax used in the attacks in America is not a strain that Iraq or the former Soviet Union mass-produced for weapons, it emerged yesterday. It probably came from an American, British or South African stockpile.
Since the attacks began in Florida and spread to Washington and New York, reports have suggested the strain and its physical form indicated it could have been produced only with the help of a government laboratory.
But according to bio-weapons experts, the strain probably came from the British bio-defence establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire or from an American laboratory.
Analysis of the size of the particles has found that its physical form is not particularly sophisticated. The particles had been milled to a few thousandths of a millimetre, optimal for causing the inhalation form of anthrax.
But according to a former deputy head of the Soviet bio-weapons programme and a report on a secret American project, terrorists could have milled particles of this size using readily available equipment.
Last week, an FBI spokesman confirmed that the anthrax sent to Florida, NBC and Senator Tom Daschle were all the Ames strain, but there has been some confusion about what this means.
Although an "Ames" strain was isolated by the US Department of Agriculture at Ames in Iowa in the 1930s, it is not the name used by scientists currently comparing the DNA of the anthrax from the attacks with a library of strains collected from all over the world.
In this collection, Ames emerged in the mid-1980s from the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, the British bio-defence establishment at Porton Down.
Porton Down acquired it from the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. It is the strain America used when it produced anthrax weapons.
America ended its bio-weapon program in 1969 but America and its allies kept samples. To be identified as Ames, the anthrax used in the attacks must either be the American military strain or one that is very similar, New Scientist reports today.
Scientists believe the terrorists chose Ames because it is particularly virulent and hard to trace.
Ken Alibek, former deputy head of the Soviet bio-weapons programme, said: "If I were a terrorist I would certainly not use a strain known to be from my country."
The Soviets did not mass-produce Ames and Iraq favoured the Vollum strain, isolated in 1930. Mr Alibek said the South African collection had hundreds of different strains.
He dismissed claims that milling the powder this fine was too hard for mere terrorists, saying it could be done using readily available equipment.
Project Bacchus, in which the US Department of Defence covertly produced a kilogram of bacteria similar to anthrax, discovered last year that bacteria particles could be milled to a few micrometres using machines available openly in America.
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It is important to note that Fuad El-Hibri owned Porton Down, if I am not mistaken, who now is the owner of the only anthrax vaccine manufacturer here in the US. BioPort in Michigan who has NEVER passed a FDA inspection with their habitual failures, supplies our military with their toxic waste and would love to supply the general public with their lethal dose as well. BioPorts press release to groups who oppose them simply stated, "Its time to roll up your sleeves, like the rest of the American people" I say its time to WAKE UP FOLKS and stop the insanity sheeple crap and KNOW THE TRUTH! I also understand Ms. Brennan-Root, spokeperson for BioPort, has never had the shot. WHY NOT! And why not Congress. Lets see them roll up their sleeves for once!
Correct me if I am wrong Ratcat or Backhoe!
Have to type it out as it won't copy/paste right:
Here is the address given on the official Senator Leahy home page:
Note that the +4 is missing from the zip code. That would indicate to me that the perp got the address from somewhere else. But where? Even, if known, it couldn't necessarily be tracked by a paper or electronic trail.
I don’t think it was Atta’s group. I think it was someone who was waiting for an opportunity. Someone unrelated to the Arabs. How would Atta’s group know how to imitate a 10 year old American kids handwriting?
I still don't understand the motive for going after the office that houses the National Enquirer. That alone makes me think that it isn't domestic.
The National Enquirer group has the largest circulation in the US. They are the most widely read newspapers in the US.
Would a US school child write it 09-11-01,
Someone familiar with a computer and with filling out forms might automatically write it that way now.
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