Yes, and the FBI arrested the accomplice on November 2 of last year only, as with this little tidbit about the hijacker having cutaneous anthrax, they haven't been exactly shouting it from the rooftops.
From the memory hole:
Anthrax Interrogations
Three Pakistani Men Face Questioning
ABC News, November 5, 2001.
Nov. 5 — Three Pakistani men faced questioning in the anthrax investigation today after being taken into custody near the contaminated postal facility in Hamilton Township, N.J.
One man, identified as Allah Rakah, was detained Friday. After FBI agents raided his residence, agents wearing protective gear searched the apartment, his car, which had Florida license plates, and a nearby mailbox.
A neighbor across the street said he called the FBI after seeing the man handling what the neighbor considered a suspicious plastic bag of letters.
"I noticed the gentleman late at night — maybe 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, — take a plastic bag, a clear plastic bag, with envelopes in it and placed it softly in the car, on the passenger side of the car, and locked it," the neighbor said.
The other two men were taken into custody earlier last week in an FBI raid at another nearby apartment building.
The manager of the building said FBI agents asked the men for handwriting samples and a neighbor said she saw the two men being taken out of an apartment where four other men of Middle Eastern descent lived. The two detained men were being held on immigration charges. Anthrax-laced letters mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office on Capitol Hill, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw in New York and the New York Post were processed at the Hamilton Township facility near Trenton, N.J.
All three of the handwritten notes inside were dated "09-11-01," the date of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, and contained the message: "DEATH TO AMERICA. DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS GREAT."
Hundreds of FBI investigators and postal inspectors continue to canvas the Trenton area in a search for clues they hope will lead them to the perpetrators of the bioterror attacks.
Anybody seen Allah Rakah lately?
And remember, Islam is a religion of peace....
Dr. Tsonas's assertion, first made to the F.B.I. in October but never disclosed, has added another layer of mystery to the investigation of last fall's deadly anthrax attacks, which has yet to focus on a specific suspect.
OK, so the why is the FBI being so closed mouth about the source of the antrax? Why is the FBI being so closed mouth about the potential involvement of Saudi citizens in the antrax? Why is the FBI releasing trial balloons that the antrax was the actions of a lone right wing domestic wacko? Why is the (not so)Good democratic Senate Majority leader, who was a target of the attack and critic about everything else the executive branch does, keeping his mouth closed on the topic of anthrax?
The simple explanation is that the source of the antrax would embaris the government where the spores came from and that the route from that source to where there were put into the mail system would embaris an allie of the US and cause political problems.
I hope that the relatives of people killed and that the postal union keeps the pressure on the FBI to tell the truth. It would be nice if reporters got serious about this as well, but I doubt they have the initiative.