And, no, Steve Hatfill did not go to the Greendale School, Worcester, Mass.
With respect to the code known to have been used in the stamp, here is an advertisement for “In The Hearts of Green Birds” sold by Al Qaeda’s website. In early Fall 2001, the Azzam.com website was mirrored by someone who lived 6 miles from the mailbox where the anthrax was mailed. He was indicted this Spring for income tax invasion. To the left of the advertisement, you’ll see the description of al-Hawali’s imprisonment. The imprisonment of al-Hawali and certain other scholars was the “Cover Theme” (which includes a related article on the torture of prisoners in Saudi prisons. GMU microbiology grad drafted a letter for al-Hawali and had it hand-delivered to every member of Congress on the first anniversary of the anthrax mailings.
The Virginia Paintball videos really liked this video and found it inspirational.
IANA’s Al-Timimi spoke in Australia, as did Dr. Dhafir. There was a good article describing Dr. Dhafir’s speech. I’ll have to keep reading to find one describing a speech given by Ali.
Hassoun, recently convicted in Florida, was listed as a distribution agent for this publication in the US.
The advertisement:
“In the Summer of 1996, Azzam Recordings released the first audio tape of its kind to be produced in English. The name of this tape was: ‘In the Hearts of Green Birds.’ It outlined some of the stories of these men. This tape was so successful, that it spread, by the Will of Allah, throughout many Muslim homes in the UK, North America and Australia. Due to popular demand, in the Summer of 1997, Azzam Recordings produced the sequel to this tape: ‘Under the Shades of Swords.’ We ask Allah to accept the Shuhadaa’ and shower His Mercy upon them. Ameen.”
http://web.archive.org/web/19990202154657/www.islam.org.au/articles/21/index.htm
[This advertisment appeared in the 21st issue of Nida’ul Islam
magazine (http://www.islam.org.au), December-January 1997- 1998]