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[spunkets]

Bentonite sucks for this purpose. It is comparitively large grained and dense. If it was present at all it was use to cut the good stuff in the first 2 letters to the news guys. The good stuff that was cut used colloidal silica as the carrier. It has an extremely low density and small particle size. Note Dachle's letter had the good uncut stuff made with silica.

If you ever poured kitty litter...the dust settles fast. If you've ever handled colloidal silica, you'd notice it doesn't settle out of the air and it gets all over the place with the slightest of air movement.

[syriacus]

The good stuff that was cut used colloidal silica as the carrier.

I didn't know this. Thanks for the information.

[spunkets]

Re: 9-11

Yes, that's what I meant by the jihadists go after the big time kills. When they do things, they don't nitpick with goofy letters that announce, "here we are, take penicillin, we've got anthrax". They'd send letters that say. "Oh what a wonderful show you have", and then throw a party when they're all dead. They also go for a much higher body count.

[newzjunkey]

I do the "09" thing all the time. It might be familiarity with computers, it might be aesthetics in how I write my dates. Who knows. I'd say it fits with an anal, science type who can't stand not having that extra placeholder in there and thinks the date otherwise 'looks wrong' or looks 'imprecise' without it.

[VRWC For Truth]

He may hold grudges for a long time, vowing that he will get even with "them" one day. There are probably other, earlier examples of this type of behavior. While these earlier incidents were not actual Anthrax mailings, he may have chosen to anonymously harass other individuals or entities that he perceived as having wronged him.

Get a Johnny McLame handwriting sample pronto!

[The Cajun]

A caller on a local talk show brought up an interesting point the other day. The letter mentions penicillin instead of Cipro to be taken. This meant to him that the person would tend to be from some third world country where modern drugs like Cipro wouldn’t be available. Come to think about it, how many times have you heard about penicillin being the drug to use for anthrax or anything else lately?

[Fred25]

Hey! Can we have a sample of your handwriting!?

[Angelique]

That makes sense about the letter to Daschle, and it does appear that this scheme was long in the making. Why the FL incident first? For publicity, just as the letters to the media? However, isn't it believed that flight 93 was headed for the White House or the Capitol Building, so couldn't be a coordinated attack?

I have thought this was a domestic attack, but the more we hear about the entrenchment of the jihad in this country, I still feel uncertain.

[muawiyah]

Ms. Nguyen worked in the "supply room" and they received small parcels there. Any small parcel that was placed in a flat tray or letter tray previously contaminated by an anthrax laden letter could very well pass along some of the anthrax powder to the person taking the parcels out of the tray - or putting a parcel into the tray - this makes the polypropylene corrugated channels "outgas".

I am sorry if this is too complex for the FBI, but they are the ones who keep saying that if there is no letter involved her infection cannot be explained.

You will notice I just treated her infection as a trivial problem - readily solved by anyone who knows anything about letter and flat trays and how the post office really works. Frankly I am positively amazed that not a single solitary FBI agent ever worked his way through college as a PTF - NOT ONE!

[Burr5]

THANK YOU for presenting the text of these letters again! I cannot (can not) BELIEVE anyone is taking this FBI snowjob seriously! They can employ psychic powers to dredge all kinds of personality characteristics from these letters like the Oracle of Delphi,(all suggesting a Republican nutcase from Montana is behind it all) but they can find "no connection" (MSNBC) to the high-jackers?!?!? Death to Israel! Death to America! Allah is Great! They are not this stupid. They are LYING to us. The question is "WHY?"

[Fred25]

Maybe he's an older guy?

[gumbo]

Is this what you were looking for? I copied these from Artist's thread last month. There are envelope photos too, but I'm not sure what goes with what...

[spunkets]

"Hey! Can we have a sample of your handwriting!?"

I usually write in all caps. In order to copy Morse code at over 20 WPM I had to use samll scribbly letters that look like Arabic. My writing is beautiful though, with my right hand. If I do it with my left, it looks like Chinese.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Well that leaves me out....

[spunkets]

"Maybe he's an older guy?"

Yea, I think he killed the Ngxxx lady in NY to keep her from talking. Apparently she inhaled a big dose of spores, she died quick, and they don't have a trace of anthrax in her regular living/work space. Unless the killer did a random attack on an old Vietnamese woman, the killer knew her. Probably flowers or something.

[The Cajun]

Maybe he's an older guy?

That's an interesting thought also.

[mercy]

The most obvious thing about the letters is that the writer was disguising his hand writing. One thing that I notice is his style of 'G'. I have never seen a G made like that. Looks like a 6. I don't think this person was taught how to write in this country.

[cynwoody]

However, the first letter of the first word of each sentence is written in slightly larger upper case lettering. Also, the first letter of all proper nouns (like names) is slightly larger. This is apparently the author's way of indicating a word should be capitalized in upper case lettering.

Author understands the importance of capitalization, and it appears that he sub-subconsciously "capitalized" where he should have.

That's the Microsoft Word "small caps" font style.

It's also the way the Cyrillic alphabet is written. Cyrillic evidently lacks lower case. Might he be a former employee of Biopreparat?

[newzjunkey]

Hmmm thanks for posting those. That definitely helps.

[spunkets]

I think the guy hates the Enquirer group, and it's got a huge circulation. The guy in FL apparently kept the letter on his desk, but I don't think it was recovered. Looks like the first mention of his condition was made on ~10-4. He probably got a copy of the same letters the other news guys got, but they didn't report it. Probably thought it was a hoax. I can just imagine the kind of letters they get regularly.