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To: Cindy; Calpernia; tubavil; WestCoastGal; Sean Osborne Lomax
From your link, Cindy: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071811/posts

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Investigators are trying to determine if a mysterious "Fallen Angel" who sent two threatening letters containing ricin last fall is responsible for the deadly poison that turned up in the Senate this week.

The earlier typewritten letters addressed to the White House and Transportation Department warned that more ricin would be used unless new federal trucking regulations were scrapped. The change in 60-year-old rules governing how often truck drivers must rest went into effect January 4. "

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The question is raised, whether the above trucker may be responsible for the ricin sent to the White House in Dec. & to the Senate a few days ago.

I have two points to make here:

It could be "domestic terrorism" -- maybe, but what bothers me, is that the ricin sent to the White House was in liquid form and the one sent to the Senate was in powder form, I haven't been able to find out and nobody said, how difficult it is to convert it to powder form. The UN inspectors found Saddam having 10 liters (1 Quart is 0.9 liters, if I remember it correctly)of ricin, so it must have been in liquid form.

The other point -- well, there were a number of articles that talked about terrorists getting trucking licenses here in the US. AQ wants to take credit on one hand, but on the other hand, they may want to test things in a way that we wouldn't suspect them, and after reading all about the FBI blaming the anthrax attacks on domestic terrorism, they may get the idea to set things up, to make things look like domestic terror -- with that "fallen angel" letter, while they are getting ready for the big attack. Just a thought, which may or may not have merit.


Here is just one article about potential terrorists getting/having trucking licenses.


http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/27/inv.hazmat.arrests/

More men arrested in hazardous license probe
September 27, 2001 Posted: 9:09 PM EDT (0109 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal agents arrested eight more Middle Eastern men Thursday and charged them with fraudulently obtaining trucking licenses that allow them to transport hazardous materials.

The arrests in Pennsylvania, Texas and Michigan brought to 18 the number of men arrested in the past two days.

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6,373 posted on 02/04/2004 11:42:44 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Speaking of interest in trucks... there was the case of the Ohio trucker Faris. (See FR keyword links OHIOTRUCKER, TRUCKPLOTS)

Also, KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] was interested in trucks.

He is associated with a Majid Khan, also interested in trucks and hazardous materials. He also owns gas stations.

6,375 posted on 02/04/2004 11:53:45 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: FairOpinion; StillProud2BeFree
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6,410 posted on 02/05/2004 5:46:28 AM PST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)
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