Posted on 11/09/2001 1:33:50 PM PST by Fearless Flyers
That said and going back to our brainstorming session, I still think that the date is a red herring and the "G" is the most significant letter in those, uh, letters. I don't think this G could have been written upside down, or by a right hander writing with the south paw. A foreigner from a European or South American country will be confused for the rest of his life about the proper way to write a date in a country that calls a handball game 'football'. An Arab? I dunno; it would be interesting to find out how they react to American date writing.
Would he write "You are dying now" or "You will die now" or "You are going to die now'? If he's a guy who likes the idea of blitzkrieg-style killing he might like to get to use the habitual phrasing he would use if he were killing the people "in person." He'd probably like to use his use "Allah" phrase too.
How do Arabs handle their el's and al's in their own script? Do they ever minimize them in writing?
I have to agree there is another indication of a Westerner writing the phrase "OF THE AMERICAS" --the 'o' in "OF" IS small, almost like the person accidentally wrote it in lower case. The "F" that follows the "o" could just as easily been a lower case 'f" and have been the same proportionately. It's hard to tell if it is just a problem the writer had with keeping the letters even.
"Yeah, yeah. I have read with interest all the analysis and profiles of the sender, but I have yet to see a single comment on this: WHO writes "09"?????? "
The Enquirer and Sun, etc. have had a pretty good track record in publishing stuff that seems stupid on the surface, but is actually important (I believe they broke X42/Monica first, and the propensity for Hitlery to throw glassware).
What is bothering me, is the question: what else is out there? We have had the 2 dead in DC postal facilities who handled (per the eerie 911 call) of a person who had handled mutilated mail. None of the letters shown appear mutilated. Where, if anywhere did that mutilated letter go?
The problem with this whole thing is, of course, that we, as the public are being IMHO, sold wolf tickets wholesale by the spokespersons for the govt. Didn't we hear last week that the contamination was found in one North Jersey area? We have heard all kinds of "information" concerning the coating of the spores, and that only one country, Iraq, used this coating. Now, however, its back to the "nothing to see here, domestic whackjob, move along." Someone is getting pretty desperate at this point in the Feebs, as they issue this "You, the public, can help us, give us information, etc etc., then this rather nonspecific profile. I realize that I am talking tinfoilhat mode here, but something is wrong with this whole thing.
I worry that we (the USA), or at least the policy making bunch is deliberately trying to avoid what we at FR have been calling for since 9/11. Detention and deportation, along with a major move against the maker of this ChemBio Material. Since this (anthrax) is considered a WMD, the only logical response is anathema to those in charge. We have had this "no first strike nukes" mentality since the collective guilt bunch started up after WWII. If we admit terrorist activity from a Jihadist group, involving the use of WMD (admittedly not too successful, but a WMD none the less) we are rather committed to using a WMD in return. While the people are ready, the gov't isn't, and is stuck in the quagmire of left over liberal thought, backed up by the press. We won't declare war, we won't do this one right, and we, if we are not careful are going to wind up in Vietnam II, with the same WashDC micromanagement, and the same inconclusive result. Been there, done that, don't want it to happen again.
Any comments cheerfully accepted.
Keep the Faith for Freedom
MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THIS HONORABLE REPUBLIC
Greg
"The author uses the words "can not," when many people prefer to spell it as one word, "cannot." "Author is used to using contractions and made an attempt to separate the contraction can't."
"Most likely profile, non-bio engineering field. Probably self-educated on the Anthrax handling, probably utilizing library computers and the internet. Perhaps a technician rather than an engineer. My guess is someone who was smart enough to be a good engineer but lacked either the money for the education or was a recluse in school and avoided the 6 year college course surrounded by peers and instead went with a 2 year tech school. Perhaps did 4-6 years in the military as some sort of electronics technician and is now 30-40, most likely post-vietnam, pre-gulf. Here's how I see "him" (almost certainly male)."
Excellent analysis...
No, I think it's clear it isn't the same writer.
One might suspect the writers shared certain personality traits though, especially if one believes that handwriting -even intentionally disguised handwriting- reveals clues about its author.
"You're only looking at half the oddity. Look again at the description of letters. All caps, but capitals a little larger. I work in printing and see that style of font regularly. It's mostly used in magazines with a snooty kind of attitude. (the New Yorker comes to mind, though I'd have to actually look at an issue to see if I'm right.)"
I hope so. I agree with your supposition that he could be a programmer or in a related field.
Manhattan hospital worker and Bronx resident Kathy Nguyen, 61, became on Oct. 31 the fourth person to die of inhalation anthrax in the United States. The way Nguyen contracted the disease has puzzled health authorities, who have been tracing her steps over the two weeks prior to her death for any clues.
``We'll be looking at the stops on her subway line,'' said Cohen.
Also, note how strange the 'G' and the 'R' look. These are interesting letters, unlike the more square letters like 'T' or 'A' and they should tell us something about the school of handwriting. They are written differently in different European cultures. Why no mention of that?
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