[anymouse]

I guess that recently convicted Egyptian terrorist buddy of bin Ladin, who confessed in detail as to how bin Ladin's crew obtained the Anthrax from Chech and asian back door bio labs is secretly a West Coast right-wing militia type, huh?

Now I don't much trust confessions coming out of countries known for torturing suspects, but shouldn't those details be followed up on to determine their validity? It sounded a lot more plausible than this crackpot homegrown theory.

Also a simple application of "Ocam's Razor" principle of deductive reasoning, shows that radical Islamic terrorists are more likely to be responsible, as well as motivated to do this so closely to the 9/11 attacks.

Not to mention the basic components of circumstacial evidence in a criminal investigation point to them - motive, means and opportunity.

It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who dunnit.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Magician]

When I saw the list of the people targeted by the anthrax letters, the first word that came to my mind was "Freeper".

[afraidfortherepublic]

OK. Think about this for a minute. The letters that have been released are POSTMARKED Sept. 11. I'm sure the bar-coding tells the time of day that the postmark was applied (morning, afternoon, evening) and the Post Office knows the time of day that the mailboxes were emptied. The hijackers were successful in hijacking the earliest flights on Sept. 11. It seems to me that the envelopes were mailed the evening of Sept. 10, or that someone else dropped them into the mail.

All this points directly to the hijackers -- not some radical, home-grown group. Everyone here would have been in too much shock to have co-ordinated this attack to conincide with Bin Laden's attack on the WTC.

IMHO, I think that all this press given to "home grown terrorist groups" is just disinformation so that the American public becomes confused and doesn't demand that we go after Hussein before Bush is ready.

[OKCSubmariner]

I have a concern that some isolated domestic group could combine efforts with ME terror groups in the US.

So for that reason I can understand the FBI looking into some domestic groups.

But the FBI has been used in the past to falsely discredit domestic groups ("vast right wing conspiracy") who were just critics of socialists, left wing liberals, of bad FBI policies, of Clinton and of corrupt people in the government who were not adhering to the COnstituion.

[roughrider]

"That's real overkill," agreed Clint Van Zandt, a former top FBI profiler. "It is someone other than a bin Laden trying too hard to link up to Sept. 11. It is a gratuitous reference."

Well, Cliffy, let's apply your logic to all the evidence left behind in the car at Logan airport by the kamikaze hijackers, such as the letters, the journal complete with references to killing themselves, the centerfold of ZZ Top bin Laden, the KORAN, etc. Using Van Zandt's logic, we have to dismiss all of that as it is "overkill," and someone "trying too hard to link up to bin Laden." We could consider it all "gratuitous evidence."