[prognostigaator]

Left wing eco-nuts are capable of mailing the anthrax compound,[nails in standing timber]..
And probably are are local home bred terrorists.
This conclusion is based not only the block letter addresses sent to Daschle and Brokaw, but the 4th Grade class ,Phoney School, NJ. with zip code return address on one of the envelopes..

Only a parent would know about class projects sent home with 3rd or 4th grade students for parential help to support one cause or another..

These classroom projects for mailings are usually written in capital block letters by the child. The parent most likely emulated the kid's method of printing as he addressed the envelopes, unlicked ,but with the flap folded in , to avoid self contamination, and specially purchased envelopes with a self embossed stamp. How many foreigners are aware of those?

Also Arabic is written left to right ,and horizontal, a habit not easily broken - the fluency ,and the printing slanting downward is strictly another clue of home grown writing ....

as jh2 says, my 3cents worth.

[Stand Watch Listen]

bttt

[carmody]

I agree with your analysis. That Daschle letter is the natural hand of someone. Although they used uppercase letters throughout, they correctly capitalized the letters at the beginning of sentences and for words like America and Israel.

[swheats]

If you have a question, somebody on FR has the answer. Thank you I was wondering about the handwriting analysis today. It does seem home grown. The cowards possibly would try and send a red herring by using Islamic's Allah.

[Moosilauke]

Excellent points! Yours is the most compelling discussion of the anthrax incidents I've seen on FR. This is most likely a home-grown ecoterrorist, trying to cash in on the 9/11 atrocities by disguising his activities as OBL related.

As you point out, the 4th grade class reference wouldn't be meaningful to an alien in this country.

The use of prestamped envelopes and unlicked flap indicate someone who's watched all the Discovery or TLC detective series where someone is nailed by his DNA!

The "09-11-01" at the top of the letters is trying too hard to pin it on OBL and company. I don't Osama's boys would feel the necessity of identifying themselves if they were the anthrax perps.

Finally, the misspelling of penicillin as "penacilin" in one of the notes (Brokaw, I think) indicates to me that this is a native english speaker. If I were going to write a threatening letter in some language I wasn't very fluent in, I'd pull out the dictionary to look up the technical terms. It reminds me of Internet-speak, where few authors bother to get the spelling right but just type it out the way it sounds.

And what's with the "09" for September? I've seen a lot of references on FR and elsewhere to the events of 9/11/2001 but I don't recall anyone writing it as "09-11-01".

The various eccentricities about these notes are eventually going to nail this guy.