[sarcasm]

I always carry my outgoing mail in a ziploc bag - nothing odd here.

[piasa]

hahaha

However, the FBI said it had found no direct link between the anthrax poisonings and the apartment raids, the latest of which took place Friday.

"At this point, we have no information that links the two searches," FBI spokeswoman Sandra Carroll said yesterday. "I can't be more specific or elaborate beyond that."

Um....that's a little hard to believe, isn't it? Shouldn't the FBI know why they raided an apartment? Or is the 'official reason' just an immigration raid?

[Monitor]

For all the noise the leftist press made of FBI theories that 'right wing extremist groups' were behind the anthrax attacks, the FBI seems to be rounding up quite a few Muslims and damn few right wingers in their search for the culprits.

Gee, you don't suppose the leftist press lied to us, do you? Nah, couldn't be. Left wingers always tell the truth.

[Lion's Cub]

And one of the neighbors said he called police Monday to report a series of suspicious circumstances.
The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, told The Associated Press he saw one of the men now in federal custody carrying a "Ziploc bag" with the letters. He said the man was holding it away from his body and "placed it real slow" onto the passenger seat of his car.
The neighbor said FBI agents questioned him hours after he called Trenton police. He said the agents already knew the suspect's name and where he lived, and they asked questions about his routine.

It's impossible to tell for sure from the way this is written, but it reads to me as though there may be another set of letters mailed last weekend or last Monday.

This says the FBI were there to question the neighbor just hours after he notified police. That, plus the fact that they were already onto these suspects, is good news to me. Maybe they're not really as lost they'd like us to believe...

[Lion's Cub]

BTW, where's that ziplock bag?

[Jim Noble]

Members of midwestern right-wing organizations are taughht from childhood to carry their mail in ziplock bags-has something to do with Revelations, I think.

No worry here-let's go to the mall.

[aristeides]

Michele Davis, a Treasury spokeswoman, said the letter was found by workers sorting through a three-week backlog of mail. The address was handwritten and the letter bore the same Trenton postmark as anthrax-tainted letters sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post.

Three-week backlog. I wonder if that means it was postmarked the same day as the Daschle letter -- Oct. 9th that was, wasn't it? That would presumably mean it has the same dangerous form of anthrax. I wonder how many other letters they mailed that day.

[Brownie74]

I always carry my outgoing mail in a ziploc bag - nothing odd here.

Yeah me too. The only problem there is that I mailed my baloney sandwich!!

The man taken into custody Friday was not charged by the FBI, but he was turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

I wonder where this is going to lead us?

[aristeides]

Here's a link to Friday's Trenton Times story about Friday's raid on the apartment on No. Olden Ave. in Trenton: Feds raid apartment [wearing HazMat suits - more details than CNN].

[rebdov]

Is mailing a letter sufficient grounds for law enforcement to ask a middle eastern man if he is a citizen or on a visa? In today's climate is there probable cause? How about in Trenton, NJ. Would they have to show their proofs? Honestly asking.

[FR_addict]

The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, told The Associated Press he saw one of the men now in federal custody carrying a "Ziploc bag" with the letters. He said the man was holding it away from his body and "placed it real slow" onto the passenger seat of his car.

The neighbor said FBI agents questioned him hours after he called Trenton police. He said the agents already knew the suspect's name and where he lived, and they asked questions about his routine.

Good for the neighbor.

The FBI may have looked up the guy's name and address from the internet and didn't want to seem incompetent when they talked to the neighbor.

If it wasn't for this guy calling the police, these guys may have continued there dirty work. That's assuming it was an anthrax letter, but everything fits.

[TomGuy]

Now, I'm confused. Does one affix the postage stamp to the ziplock bag or to the envelope in the ziplock bag?

We need a postal regulation for this.

[FreePaul]

I frequently carry outgoing mail and other papers in a Ziploc bag, especially in wet weather. I guess I'll have to stop this terrorist practice.

[Marauder]

Are we still taking mail from all the little mailboxes scattered all over America? It would seem to me that the first thing we should have done was close those down and accept mail only from input locations that can be monitored by video, as are ATMs. That is the only way I can conceive to get control of this and to have any hope of catching these mutts.

That the USPS is spending millions to acquire the irradiation machines is gratifying, but will they also work on other contaminants like smallpox?

[OldFriend]

A special thank you to the good citizen who called to report suspicious behaviour.

[CathyRyan]

I think our leash is being jerked by a lot of OBL sympathizers to cover what he is really up to.

[MizSterious]

Bump!

[not-an-ostrich]

I'm confused. An news article posted on FR a day or so after Ms. Nyguen was hospitalized said the room she worked in had been recently remodeled and until then the mail had been opened in the same room. Since then we have been swamped by news media articles about how no one could figure out how she was infected. Tracing her steps, etc. Now the original quote by hospital personnel is showing up again. Sheesh!

[not-an-ostrich]

Again I'm confused. The Treasury Department is opening mail that looks like the anthrax letters already received? I read the FBI was hand examining all this mail after it came back from Ohio. How could they miss this letter?

[MizSterious]

I've been known to do that when it rains--tends to keep the ink from running. But the way he handled these--something's not right, and I really, really question the wisdom in letting the other three walk.

[KYwoman]

Call me naive...but...I think (pretending Stupidity, Weakness, and Inepitude) are our greatest weapons right now. Isn't this what the terrorist think we are anyway? Soft...targets? Well I hope they keep thinking it because I don't doubt for a moment that we know exactly what we're doing.