The perp is here on a student VISA. I suspect otherwise
He is Islamic I don't think so.
and Middle Eastern. Nope. North Korean is my bet.
He may be a member of Al Queda. Unlikely
English is not his primary language and neither is Arabic. Note the dates on the xeroxed letters in the *anthrax letterbomb*
See also *this article*
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If you want to consider non-Middle-Eastern possibilities, think about China.
English is not his primary language and neither is Arabic. Note the dates on the xeroxed letters in the *anthrax letterbomb*
I don't know Arabic. Why do the dates indicate that the writer is not Arabic?
I agree that the sender does not appear to be an American. The date is written 09-11-01. All the Americans I know would have written 9/11/01, without the leading 0, and with slashes instead of dashes.
Much has been made of the fact that the date is written in the American order of month-day-year, but most foreigners would be aware of that and, in fact, would have become accustomed to that order after a few years here -- they'd be repeatedly told by Americans that they were writing dates incorrectly if they used the day-month-year order. But nobody misunderstands a date written with dashes instead of slashes; nobody even comments on such a thing, so a foreigner could easily not realize that it looks foreign.
See also *this article*
Thanks for the link on the Zimbabwe anthrax outbreak; I had never heard of it.