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A few curious questions:

1. Who paid the rent/mortgage on the place for the last year? Did the dishes just sit there for a year and newspapers collect in the front yard since Sept 01? Further if they had a car, they probably had a drivers license and it sounds like 2 kids in local schools.

2. Why is the FBI making the connection now or in the last 2 weeks (took PC out 2 weeks ago)? My guess its related to either the raid on the UK mosque about a week ago or to information coming from the raid on the latest doctor's house in Pakistan about 3 weeks ago. There was a reference to his sons' having lived in Florida but the articles at the time gave no further specifics.

3. If they were tipped off on Sept. 9 and fled, then tip may have come by electronic communication from Afgh/Pak, Hamburg or directly from the hijackers. Does anyone know when and from where the anthrax was mailed?

Ranger, beginning with news of the first anthrax attack, I began putting a timeline together with the intention of posting it on FR. But I kept waiting to post it as events continued to unfold rapidly. Unfortunately, waited too long in that my hard drive crashed in early December '01 and I lost all that information. It's impossible to reconstruct without a Lexis-Nexis subscription, since the original articles are now archived by the news organizations which published them.

Anyway, that's a round-about way of saying I may remember the earliest anthrax news better than most due to the timeline I was constructing. Here are some salient facts about the first attacks:

Three people got sick at American Media, where the first attack took place. Two with inhalation anthrax and one with cutaneous. One man died.
It was originally speculated by authorities that the man who died may have been exposed to anthrax on a trip he took in late September.
But co-workers remembered an unusual letter received by AMA and handled by the people who got sick. (Until the 2nd and 3rd men from AMA got sick, authorities were discounting this letter as the anthrax source.)
According to co-workers, the envelope contained a brownish-white powder, a cheap, plastic Star of David, and a bizzare note that ranted about a female celebrity whose name I don't recall.
Also according to the earliest reports from co-workers, they believed the letter arrived at AMA about September 8.
The gentleman who died is said to have most closely examined the letter. His work-station was heavily contaminated. He got sick about the last week of September and died in early October.

In addition to the fact that the earliest reports indicated the AMA letter arrived there about three days BEFORE the 9/11 attacks, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that it and at least one other anthrax letter were never recovered. The one sent to Dan Rather was not recovered. His assistant opened it, later discarded it, and only afterward did she contract cutaneous anthrax.

Does anyone know when and from where the anthrax was mailed?

Sorry, got interrupted in my reply to you. To continue:

Based on the memories of AMA employees, the AMA letter was postmarked at a post office in south Florida. The recovered letters to New York and Washington were postmarked in New Jersey. Because the AMA letter was never recovered, there has been some speculation by authorities and the media that the AMA employees were mistaken, and that it also may have been mailed from New Jersey.

Later reports also ignored the fact that AMA employees recalled that the letter arrived before 9/11. Because there was approximately a three-week gap between when they thought the letter arrived and the gentleman who died first reported being sick, authorities and the media have claimed they were mistaken not only about the postmark, but the date the letter arrived. However, I remember reports that there was a postal facility in south Florida that tested positive for traces of anthrax back when all this first started. And roughly three weeks is well within the known range of incubation periods for anthrax infections.

In addition to the facts stated above, TWO 9/11 hijackers presented themselves with skin problems to health care professionals in south Florida in the weeks leading up to the attacks. One was treated for a black skin lesion in by a doctor who is certain it was an anthrax infection. Another went to a pharmacist asking for a skin cream that might help his hands, which were very inflamed.

And let's not forget the "coincidence" that Atta and another hijacker rented an apartment through the rental agent wife of the head of AMA. Atta and several of the other hijackers were living in south Florida and taking flying lessons within a couple of miles of the AMA building.

Granted, all of the above is "only" circumstantial. But how many "coincidences" does it take to weave a pretty convincing case? Last year, we heard a lot about the government's supposed failure to connect some vague "dots." Well, we don't have dots here, we've got boulders, and still the media and FBI don't seem to be connecting them.