Posted on 11/09/2001 1:33:50 PM PST by Fearless Flyers
Must be a connection between the victims and I'm sure the FBI is working that possibility. Did Brokaw interview Daschle on a topic of particular significance to this guy? Did the NY Post later do an editorial commentary on the same topic?
And there are medical supply firms/pharmaceutical companies in NJ that might have mailed a package to her hospital that got cross-contaminated.
NJ Top 5 companies by market capitalization, all are medical/health related
Alpharma Inc.: Pharmaceuticals, Becton Dickinson & Co. (I think they make medical supplies), Block Drug Co. Inc., Dialogic Corporation, Medical Manager Corp. Manufacturing, Medquist Inc. Health, Schein Pharmaceutical Pharmaceuticals, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Warner-Lambert -
At least, I think most of these are medically related.
BTW, what is a PTF?
FWIW, I think the style of the current anthrax letters is more controlled. It doesn't look like the same writer to me.
This is also the way capitalization was done on a very old typewriter we had. "Upper case" and "lower case" letters were the same, except "lower case" letters were smaller than the "upper case" ones.
Look, it was in the USPS equipment - lots of ways those trays can actually work as aerosols in fact.
Your question "what is a PTF" is a clear demonstration that you do not have sufficient understanding of the USPS to even comment on how someone in a supply room could get contaminated - a PTF is the acronymn for "Part Time Flexible" employee. These folks can get up to 40 hours work a week from the USPS. This is the entry level for a clerk or carrier.
There, now that I've given away the secret information, none of us will be safe. They'll be coming in here saying "Hey, I know the words, I know what a PTF is, listen to my theory."
Must watch this in the future.
My profile guess:
White male over the age of 60
Widowed or Divorced, no children or relatives or alienated his relatives, has only one or two people he speaks to
Partially disabled
Ex-government employee or subcontracted gov't employee
Top Secret clearance at one time
College educated
Lives in the Trenton Area
Buys stamped envelopes because he can't ever find a stamp when he needs one, frustrated by the interm "Letter" stamps without denominations, can't keep up with the changes in postage.
Doesn't like kids, visitors or phone calls.
Reads & watches TV. No Computer
Has a cat, hates dogs
Shops at thrift stores and budget grocery stores
Unkempt appearance, abrupt in conversation, scrooge like
People avoid him and he likes it that way
Reveling in the fact that he hasn't been caught yet and probably going about his business in a much better mood
Possible manic depressive
Hates doctors
Uses public transportation
Not a registered voter
But you must have skipped the first sentence in my reply which was, "And there are medical supply firms/pharmaceutical companies in NJ that might have mailed a package to her hospital that got cross-contaminated."
I was going along with your scenario. I was pointing out that the hospital might have received loads of mail that passed through the (potentially contaminated) NJ mail systems, because there are so many medically related firms in NJ.
1) Who writes the word "Building" on a separate address line and without abbreviating it? A foreigner who mistakenly thinks the word "Building" is important on an address line. Americans would write "Bl" or "Bldg" on the same line, if necessary squeezed on at the very end, not going to a second line.
2) Who puts a period after "Ave" (or "St" or "Rd")?? I don't.
3) I have a degree in foreign languages and the English used in the letters sounds to me like a foreigner trying to think in English. The person "knows" the meaning of the words, but doesn't realize how stilted the English sounds to a native English speaker. For language students, it's often a laborious process trying to translate simple concepts into a language not his own. The non-native speaker might think "You die now" expresses the thought such as "You're going to die" or "Die, you suckers" or "You're going to die ha ha", which may have been what he was thinking as he wrote "You die now".
4) A computer user who does inputting as part of his job would be used to writing the date with six digits. I have to input the date this way in my job, and it's therefore second nature to write six digit dates on checks, etc.
The question of whether or not the FBI is monitoring this hefty input has been raised. Because of the FBI's fortress mentality, they may only sift through the "leads" mailed to them. Suggestion: Smother them with emails that include the clickable URL of this thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/567593/posts
I'd heard that too. It makes sense that a person who would mail anthrax would be someone who has lost hope of having a normally fulfilling life.
On the other hand, I think this phrase sounds like a weak attempt to sound foreign.
Wouldn't anyone who lived in the US, or even dealt with Americans, be aware of our dating system and make sure to use that system so that we Americans would clearly see the connection between the anthrax letters and "Nine-Eleven"? If they wrote 11-09-01, the connection with 9-11 would not be made as strongly.
An American trying to imitate an Arab would be more likely to write 11-09-01 than an Arab writing to Americans would be.
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