Posted on 11/09/2001 1:33:50 PM PST by Fearless Flyers
Actually, here's the thread: LINK I requested that my post #53 be pulled.
I can't find the thread where I originally got the old Atlanta media threats letter pics (suspected sender, Eric Rudolph), but it was posted on 10/16/01, and had to do with anthrax. You're better with search engines than I am, so maybe you can track it down.
"You saw the article today wherein abortion clinics were being targeted for anthrax threats, right?"
Yeah, I heard fundraising is down at PP after 9-11. How timely.
About a dozen animals a year in the US die from anthrax and hundreds die each year from anthrax in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Billions of spores are in the soil below a dead aninmal.
Anthrax is also called the "Fur Handler's Disease."
There is even a location in the US (NW Nebraska) that has the "Mueseum of the Fur Trade (Chadron, Nebraska); deposits of bentonite (NW Sheridan county Nebraska); and anthrax outbreaks in cattle (26 dead 1994, Sheridan county herd).
Whoa. Good thinking. Check the envelope flap for saliva and DNA (unless a sponge was used to dampen the glue or the envelopes were self-sealing). They could also look for some Middle-Easterner, who was murdered (before developing anthrax.) or was given Cipro. Come to think of it, I wonder if Kathy Nguyen was asked by anyone to lick envelopes.
Was that Nepalese guy (7 knives, a stun gun, at O'Hare) heading to Nebraska to try to get some of these anthrax making items?
WASHINGTON (AP) - The anthrax mailings probably are the work of a man who is familiar with hazardous material, works where he has little contact with other people and may have held a grudge against the addressees, the FBI said Friday. In a fresh appeal to the public for help in solving the anthrax mailings, FBI officials released a profile of the suspected mailer.
The profile, developed by the agency's behavioral experts, does not address the question of whether the person is foreign or from the United States.
FBI officials said the person may work in a laboratory and "is apparently comfortable working with extremely hazardous material. He probably has a scientific background to some extent, or at least a strong interest in science."
The person "did not select his victims randomly," making the effort to find the correct address and ZIP code of each victim and ensuring that proper postage was used.
NBC, the New York Post and Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., were selected, the FBI said, because "these targets are probably very important to the offender. They may have been the focus of previous expressions of contempt which may have been communicated to others or observed by others."
The FBI has come under public criticism for its inability to answer many of the questions surrounding the anthrax attacks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., took the bureau to task at a congressional hearing this week. Feinstein received an FBI briefing Friday afternoon that lasted so long it delayed a briefing for the news media by nearly an hour.
While profiling the suspect in some detail, the FBI said it has reached no conclusions.
"No suspects are ruled out," said FBI behavior analyst Jim Fitzgerald. "No groups are ruled out. There's a possibility it's al-Qaida-related. There is no direct or clear linkage between this incident and any cell or network."
The person who mailed the letters "lacks the personal skills necessary to confront others," the FBI said, suggesting that the man may have held a grudge against the targets for a long time.
After the Sept. 11 hijacker attacks, FBI officials said the person may have become more secretive and changed his usual pattern of activity.
"He may have displayed a passive disinterest in the events which otherwise captivated the nation," the FBI said. "He also may have started taking antibiotics unexpectedly."
During the anthrax mailings and the intense media coverage, the man may have altered his physical appearance, displayed pronounced anxiety or noticeable mood swings, and appeared more withdrawn or unusually preoccupied, the profile said.
Oh no, my ex is going to report me after this, especially since I changed my haircut and underwear as well around the time!
Left handed.
So, this guy might already have been a serial killer? Maybe the FBI should look for other deaths in NJ. Especially in towns near medical and pharmaceutical labs.
Yes it is. Notice the other letters to the news outfits are copies with no return @. The folks there don't care about return @'s. The letters also tell them to take penicillin. The perps not interested in a kill, just a slime for effect. Notice those letters had their anthrax cut with something, it was lower grade/same bug.
The letter to Daschle was sent from the "4th grade", the perp wanted to give it the best chance of hitting the target. He was posing as "the children" to the senator. It was uncut, high quality, potent stuff. He was intending harm.
These letters weren't sent by jihadists. The first priority with them is the big kill, big time blood and guts massacre. These letters were sent by a single authoritarian, masquerading as a jihadist. He was set to go before 9-11, and the jihadist action gave him the opportunity to act to forward his agenda.
But didn't they probably try on September 11th to get the Congress, big time, by plane? After September 11th they would have had to use another route of attack.
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