Posted on 10/15/2001 1:37:20 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
Publisher's wife rented out apartment to two suspected hijackers: report
10/15/2001
Agence France-Presse
(Copyright 2001)
MIAMI, Oct 14 (AFP) - A realtor married to the editor of the Sun newspaper -- where the first in a string of anthrax cases broke out - - rented an apartment to two suspected hijackers in last month's terror attacks, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
The revelation marks the first known link between the hijacking suspects and the anthrax outbreak, officials said.
The Herald reported that the wife of Sun editor Michael Irish rented out an apartment in nearnby Delray Beach apartment to alleged hijackers Marwan Alshehhi and Saeed Alghamdi.
Alshehhi was aboard United Flight 175, the second jet to strike the World Trade Center.
Alghamdi was on United Flight 93, which crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh when passengers thwarted an attempt to target another building.
"There is now a link between the editor's wife and the terrorists," said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
Orihuela said the FBI wasn't drawing immediate conclusions about the connection.
"Right now it looks like a coincidence," Orihuela said from outside the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media Incorporated (AMI), the Sun tabloid's parent company.
"We are not searching the apartment at this time. We are focusing on this building."
The Sun employed photo editor Bob Stevens, who died earlier this month from inhalation anthrax . Two other AMI employees were exposed, and five more are being retested to confirm positive blood test results.
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Indeed. And as time goes by we may find out more but there is an investigation going on right now. Do you (all) really expect these agencies to hamper their own investigations by giving a "heads up" to the bad guys? This forum is not the only one instituting the "Loose lips, Sink ships" policy.
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