[Mitchell]

Although it was known that Stevens had anthrax, it was not known that mail was being used for the delivery (and it was still being questioned whether Stevens might have contracted anthrax naturally).

And the fact of the anthrax case itself had only been announced on Oct. 4, the day before the Troxler letter was postmarked.

[apokatastasis]

In 1980, St Petersburg's Skyway Bridge was rammed and badly damaged by a freighter. A number of vehicles fell off the bridge, and "of the victims who made the fall there was only one survivor, whose truck had luckily landed on the deck" of the freighter.

Perhaps this is what "Skyway bridge-18 wheels" refers to?

"Oklahoma-Ryder Truck" - I assumed that was about John Doe #2 (and therefore ambiguous, since some people think he was an agent of the state, others a foreign collaborator).

My feeling is that the person who sent this letter thought that 9/11 was an inside job, and the moment that anthrax hit the news (October 4), they assumed it was more of the same. "Blow away this dust so you can see how the real thing flys"... I hate to admit it, but it does sound like a reference to the aerosol properties of the real anthrax, doesn't it? My head hurts!

[maestro]

Among the facilities likely to be open to inspection under the draft agreement would be the West Jefferson, Ohio, laboratory of the Battelle Memorial Institute, a military contractor that has been selected to create the genetically altered anthrax.

Is this 'BMI' another 'French' (GM) connection?

:-(