The alternative theory is that the perp is left handed.

The 'G' and '6' as handwritten on the letters and envelopes are peculiar and perhaps indicate an arabic cursive normal usage.

Much more importantly, Arabic script is written following an imaginary base line. Letters that are above this line are written from bottom to top. Now take a look at the E's in the New York Post letter. They are printed from bottom to top, a heavy line at the bottom, a little corner, continuing up vertically and finished off with a faint wavy line at the top. How many people here would print an E in this fashion?

The perp may have used a template to form the letters. Using templates it is almost impossible to keep the writing in a straight line. Part of the template always covered up the previous letter. Freeper usually had to draw a light pencil line with a ruler or the poster turned out a lot like the envelopes. The letters are just too perfect for somebody to have written them out freehand. Every 2 is exactly the same. The G's are exactly the same.

A template could explain why so many of the strokes of the letters seem to have a dollop of ink at the ends. When the pen came to the end... it would do that, with a stencil.

The Comic Sans MS font is the closest template one Freeper has found so far.

Also, font Tempus Sans ITC is a near match.

Someone might be copying the letters from a "hit" list in the font. What makes it interesting is that it would confirm the theory that it's someone very familiar with computers. The date, the computer font.

Freeper is an amateur calligrapher and am always interested in the way people write, specifically the little details such as a serif on the number 1. Freeper notes how foreigners from the same country often write very similarly... Freeper's sense is that the person who wrote the letters is foreign and not extremely proficient in writing in english. That would explain the heavier ink at the end of each letter (very deliberate and probably slow writing). The phrases contained in one of the letters: "We have this anthrax" and "You die now" sound very broken-english to me; english would definitely be a second language for someone to write/talk this way.

Most of the stuff was of high grade and got out too quickly. To do this without getting infected or caught takes a certain amount of time to plan and aquire resources.

In other words for a domestic party to get their hands on, plan to distribute and mail this stuff out and infect people so shortly after 911 is quite improbable. It would be most logical to conclude that the Anthrax scare was "locked and loaded". A copy cat might came along afterwards with lower grade stuff and less thought out plans.

Also the geographic coincidences are too many.

The alternative theory is that the terrorist cell had one and only one vial of the anthrax and they were rushed to use it for some reason, it could be that the very fine stuff settles to the bottom of the vial. The lab analysis of each specimen will eventually show if the only difference between envelopes is size of the spores - or if the batches were processed differently.

On 11/28/01 researchers at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville Md decoded the genomes of two anthrax microbes of the Ames strain which was used in the terror attacks. The findings have been shared with law enforcement officials.

Dr. Parvaiz Malik of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton and the Islamic Society of Central Jersey noted in this profile is not the same person as Dr. Fahmy Malak of Arkansas, now Florida, who was medical examiner under Governor Clinton and mentioned in a number of Clinton scandals.

Dr. Malik has been in the U.S. since the 70's or so and is long established here. He is probably not a party to the terrorists. However, as head of the Islamic Center of Central NJ and being from Pakistan and having made it as a doctor here ... we wonder if a newcomer to the country living in that area, attending that mosque and wanting to become a doctor ... may have asked him for a job referral or such.

Several arrests of Pakistani nationals were made in Trenton/Hamilton weeks ago --some in the Greenwood Village apartments, and some at 1001 N. Olden Street. The N. Olden Street arrests took place after a witness observed a man gingerly placing letters enclosed in a ziploc bag into his car. The car had Florida license plates.

Just after the events of September 11, the FBI arrested Mohammed Pervez, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent. Pervez was a Jersey City roommate of Ali Ayub Kahn and Mohammed Jazweeth Azmath, suspected of being hijackers whose plans were thwarted when their plane was grounded in St. Louis. Pervez, who worked in both Trenton and Newark train stations, was also a roommate of the potential anthrax suspects detained from the Greenwood village apartments in Hamilton.

Ali Ayub Khan also listed as one of his addresses the same Chicago apartment house as Sabash Gurung is staying in with his brother. Gurung is the Nepalese who was arrested at O'Hare Airport with a large stash of weapons (knives, a stun gun, etc.). The FBI said (or implied) that the Ali Khan who lives in the same apartment house as Gurung is a different Ali Khan, that it's a coincidence of names. But this seems not to be the case -- in fact, there is a newspaper article on Khan, dated well before Gurung was in the news, which gives that Chicago address for him.

After discovery of anthrax weapon information in their offices in Afghanistan, Pakistan detained two retired nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudry Abdul Majeed. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (the English spelling used varies) and Mirza Baig were recently detained by Pakistan in an apparent investigation into the possible bringing of nuclear secrets from Pakistan into Afghanistan; both are said to have ties to the Taliban. Another Pakistani with close ties to the Taliban is Qadir Khan, called the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb; he was recently removed from his sensitive position as head of the Pakistani nuclear-weapons program. The names Sultan Mahmood, Mirza Baig, and Qadir Khan all appear in the Chicago telephone directory at addresses very close to the 1025 W Hollywood Ave address used by Ayub Ali Khan, Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Sabesh Gurung. These may be common names - or perhaps al Queda members, who tend to use false identities - intentionally used these "respected" names.

A Pakistani man who took video footage of the World Trade Center a few days before the Sept. 11 attacks, Raza Nasir Khan was accused of being an illegal immigrant who possessed firearms, requested maps of a hunting area near a rural Salem County, N.J., nuclear power plant and had a handheld global positioning system device.

Mazen Al-Najjar, Al-Arian's brother-in-law and WISE associate, was arrested and charged with visa violations. Al-Najjar then was imprisoned for more than three years based on supposed secret evidence that he was a threat to national security. He finally was released in December after a federal judge and then-Attorney General Janet Reno concluded that the evidence didn't warrant his imprisonment. Al-Najjar teaches at the Islamic Academy of Florida, a small school where Al-Arian, his former WISE colleague, is the principal.

Palestianian Nabil Sarama, is alleged to have made a false statement to obtain a permanent residency card; he was arrested in Orlando, Fla., after police found him near a pay phone that had been used to make bomb threats. His suitcase contained a kit capable of making between eight and 12 box cutters. He had a California Department of Motor Vehicles identification card, a Georgia driver's license, four Florida identification cards and a Palestinian Authority passport.

In DelRay Beach, Florida - a pharmacist (Gregg Chatterton at Huber Healthmart Drugs) claimed to have talked to Atta and another hijacker when they came into his pharmacy with ailments last August. Mostly, we heard about Atta, who had red hands. But the other hijacker, Marwan Al-Shehhi, had symptoms of inhalation anthrax (cough) that would have required him to visit a doctor in his area. The pharmacist said that a man resembling Al-Shehhi had returned to have a prescription filled, but his name was not found in their records - leading the investigators to think he had used an alias. The pharmacist said the red hands looked like a result from washing with bleach - that it did not look like cutaneous anthrax.

In Chester PA on 11/14/01 - teams of FBI agents complete with hazmat gear and tents, broke down door(s), swabbed and seized evidence at two homes and the city hall. One house was shared by City Health Commissioner Irshad Shaikh and his brother Masood. The other was the home of city accountant Asif Kazi. They are all from Pakistan. Kazi's wife had a prescription for Cipro. Kazi had been seen dumping a cloudy liquid and handing a silver canister to someone.

Freepers wonder if this Could he be THE Asif Kazi, or is it a very common Pakistani name?

The Waksman fermentation facility is troubling, and contributing Freepers hope the FBI has included ALL reference labs that have fermentation specialties. Most solid state fermentation is done with fungal spores, but the same technique would apply to bacterial (anthrax) spores.

The CABM and Waxman Institute (UMDNJ) are at 679 Hoes Lane in Piscataway. There is Old Hoes Lane and Hoes Lane. If Freeper recalls correctly, CABM would be on Old Hoes Lane. The Muslim Center of Middlesex County (NJ) is at 1012 Hoes Lane. These two roads intersect at a traffic light near the Center. The Center is "around the corner" from the school.

A possible suspect in the Anthrax mailings is an Iraqi-American microbiologist who lives in Trenton, New Jersey (at last notice.) His name, or at least his alias, is "Waly Samar". In 1993, Mr. Samar was studying microbiology at Hunter College in NYC - less than a thousand feet from the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital where Kathy Nguyen worked - the latest victim of inhalation Anthrax. Waly Samar operated integrally with the Iraqi intelligence agents Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ramzi Yousef in planning, coordinating and executing the World Trade Center bombing on February 26th, 1993, the second anniversary of Kuwait's liberation from Iraqi occupation.

Michael Savage said Nguyen's husband was Somali.

Thomas Morris Jr., 55, postal worker in Brentwood, NJ. DECEASED.

Joseph Curseen Jr., 47, postal worker in Brentwood, NJ. DECEASED.

Kathy T. Nguyen, 61, a stockroom clerk at the "Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital." DECEASED.

UNNAMED, 59, postal worker. Inhalation anthrax presumably from misdirected Leahy letter. RECOVERED.

Ottilie Lundgren, 94, Oxford, CT. Inhalation anthrax (per hospital and state tests, CDC tests pending). DECEASED

The CDC confirmed on 11/24/01 that a letter postmarked Zurich, Switzerland - and sent to Dr. Antonio Banfi - a pediatrician in the Chilean capital of Santiago contained traces of anthrax.

The anthrax in the letter mailed to Chile is not the same strain as the terrorist attack in the U.S. Investigators are wondering if the contamination occurred in the Chilean lab itself. Also, although the letter had a Swiss postmark it was actually processed in New York. The return address was from Mosby Inc., a publisher of medical journals, in Orlando, Fla.

Federal agents are closely monitoring the disappearance of Harvard biology professor Don C. Wiley. His research interests in a number of potentially deadly viruses include Ebola. His car was found on a bridge over the Mississippi River. He traveled to Memphis each year for the annual meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital."

Apparently there is a connection between Dr. Antonio Banfi in Chile and the Harvard Microbilogist who disappeared. The connection is St Judes Children's Hospital. This charity is apparently funded by Syrian Christians. On Banfi: http://www.uchile.cl/facultades/medicina/boletin/boletin19/arti24.html "..as Saint Jude took control of the Hospital, that offered specialized technical education in the area of transplant of bony marrow...."

Freeper finds it an interesting coincidence that Don C. Wiley and a large group of other Harvard researchers, professors and scientists were working on a method to protect the body from anthrax; and Dr. Wiley is now missing; his wife is Swiss/German and the woman in Connecticut is also Swiss/German; the letter sent to Dr. Banfi in Chile came from Switzerland. Rebuttal Freeper notices that Wiley was doing basic research in biology. According to Wiley's web page, he studies the "mechanisms by which glycoproteins carry out complex functions on the membranes of viruses and cells." While there may be some vague connection with bioterrorism (some of his work has involved viruses, apparently influenza mostly, and he obviously has access to advanced biology labs and knowledge of lab techniques), there doesn't seem to be the kind of direct connection that some people are positing (anthrax work, for instance). Also, Freeper believes Wiley's wife is Icelandic, not Swiss. (Her name is Valgeirsdottir, which looks Icelandic.)

Freeper posts an email from the New York Post " Post ran a story today based on your tip. Am sending along a shortened version, which ran in later editions and on the Post's website. Longer version had more info on St. Jude, including fact that many of its Arab-American board members are not followers of Islam.

The police say that Don C. Wiley's work wouldn't interest terrorists because it dealt with influenza. Freeper asks "What about the great influenza epidemic in the early part of this century? Isn't unleashing a bug like that one of the concerns of the CDC?"

The zip code on the return address from the Daschle letter is 08852, Monmouth Junction NJ - the location of the Islamic Society of Central NJ - headed by Dr. Malik, and including a mosque and a school.

There are probably canceled checks or correspondence at the Islamic Society of NJ that can be matched to his handwriting.

It might be possible to identify the copier used to make one or more of the letters if it was copied on a cheap "film" copier/fax machine ... the kind that might leave an image on the used roll.

In the alternative, he might have intentionally changed the name of a nearby school "Greenbrook" to "Greendale." The Greenbrook school only goes to the 4^th grade.

Another possibility: Greendale and Franklin, WI are right next to each other. The NJ school is Greenbrook School, not Greendale. Could it be some Freudian slip? There are 15,000 Muslims in the area.

In the alternative, there is a biotechnology laboratory in England named Greendale.

The letter to Troxler was received on the same day the letters to Daschle and Leahy were mailed. But Bob Stevens of American Media had already died of anthrax. It was already thought that American Media might have been sent the anthrax in a letter. And this was when there was a spate of letters with white powder that turned out to be hoaxes, many presumably by random copycats.

The Daschle and Leahy letters were postmarked October 9, but the Brokaw and New York Post letters were postmarked on September 18 -- long before Troxler received his letter. The information about the Brokaw and Post letters were not public at the time the Troxler letter was mailed. (October 11 or 12.)

Interestingly enough, originally the focus of the NBC case was on a letter postmarked from St. Petersburg on September 20. So it appears that there may be some connection between the two sets of letters (Trenton/anthrax and St. Pete/hoaxes).

In the alternative, the Democrat party is widely recognized among Arabs to be the party of Hollywood and of Wall Street financiers who they see as entirely Jewish. It is no secret that Democrats get about 85% of the Jewish vote. To the violently anti-semitic terrorists, it makes sense to attack prominent Democrats.

As for why most of the most publicized anthrax letters sent to Congress were democrats, stop there. It is a red herring by the lamestream designed to make it seem as if *right wing militia types* are doing this. Many letters, like the ones to Hannity, for instance, have received little or no attention by most of the press. Many of the letters sent to news orgs were sent because SOMEONE bought into the idea that all of the news in the US is run by Jews, for Jews. That is COMMON in Near Eastern regimes, and very common in the mosques and Islamic front groups, to elicit donations and recruit terrorists from those who actually believe they are fighting a *holy* war, and have been taught FROM BIRTH, that the rantings of Mohammad are Allah speaking through the *prophet*.

In the alternative, Daschle holds the Senate seat once occupied by Arab-American Sen. James Abourezk, though he received significant funds from pro-Israel political action committees and has signed on to a bipartisan letter to Clinton to support Israel and condemn Palestinian leadership for encouraging violence. The letter encourages US envoys to Egypt to stand solidly with Israel against the terrorist activities supported by Yasser Arafat.

Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition suggested sending emails, call or fax to Leahy to cease delivery of all armaments and military and economic aid to Israel immediately. The "Leahy Law," a provision in recent appropriations legislation, prohibits U.S. military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.

VIACOM, Parent company of CBS was also the parent company of Medscape. Medscape is in Oregon. Customers include University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, Newark, NJ. On November 8, 2001 Medscape, a leading provider of digital health record applications and online medical information announced that, effective immediately, it has agreed to a termination of its relationship with Viacom Inc.

Tom Brokaw was also the anchorman who wrote "The Greatest Generation". Not exactly a terrorist's best friend.

New York Post is more often than not, pro-Israel. It could also have been a mis-send meant for the Jewish Post of New York.

ABC is an Eisner run company, Eisner being best known for his promotion of gays at Disney. Although there is no word for homosexual in Arabic, it IS one of those things they hypocritically condemn the US for.

Though addressed to Rather, he never got HIS missive nor the disease. A child at a birthday party did. It could very easily have been picked up on a piece of TAPE in a mailroom and used to seal a gift or card. Not enough to infect an adult, perhaps not even touched by an adult, but enough to infect a 2 year old.

Hannity is an unswerving Netanyahu fan, and an uncompromising critic of the Muslims in this country who have so far refused to back this country.

Even while the news reports emphasized the possibility of a right wing extremist, on November 13th the FBI SWAT raided, with hazmat equipment, Chester Pennsylvania's Health Commissioner Dr. Irshad Shaikh, his brother Masood Shaikh and Chester's city accountant Asif.

On November 25th, the New York Post reported that the "FBI is close to making its first arrests on U.S. soil directly linked to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center terror attacks..." The article goes on to describe the FBI's silence ... "the suspects had not been arrested earlier because they are under intense surveillance as the FBI seeks leads in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and others in his al Qaeda terror network."

BioPort's Board of Directors

Fuad El-Hibri (Chairman and CEO)
Robert G. Kramer (President & COO)
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. (USN Retired)
Dr. Robert C. Myers (Executive Vice-President, CSO)

BioPort Corp. confirmed that company information, including plans for anthrax vaccine production, was found in an office in Afghanistan used by two retired nuclear scientists from Pakistan - Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid, who both worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission.

BioPort, as the only producer of anthrax vaccine, would have profit motive to want to see its product used. Especially since it had suffered such bad press about side effects--even death. BioPort's only client is the US government, so if an urgent and compelling need were to arise from that client, life would be good. Interestingly, BioPort's last-ditch application to the FDA to stay in business was presented to the FDA on the same day the Daschle letter was discovered.

Since its inception, BioPort has never acted like a company that wanted its product available. It has wholly, completely, and consistently acted in ways that invited regulatory sanction. Add in the complete PR meltdown over the risks of taking the vaccine. Members of the military faced court martial rather than be vaccinated.

Freeper asks "if someone were planning an anthrax attack, might he not envision ways in which to minimize prophylaxis? Perhaps by controlling the only vaccine? Bonus: make big bucks in the bargain from the very people he intended to target, and be in a position to pass on some intel. "

BioPort was formed solely and expressly for the purpose of taking over the original anthrax vaccine firm. I'm sure that it's purely coincidental that the guy who thought of doing that--Faud El-Hibri--was at the time a German citizen and that it's pretty much accepted that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were planned in Hamburg. Freeper asks "Did El-Hibri corner the market, or tie up the market? "

Source: Times of London (UK) Published: 11/22/01 Posted on 11/22/01 12:59 PM Eastern by semper_libertas The anthrax attacks in America are "almost certainly" derived from a US government laboratory, a scientist says. "I'm a New Yorker," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, chairman of the Federation of American Scientists' working group on biological weapons. "My city has been attacked, first by foreign terrorists, then by an American using a biological agent."

Rosenberg was representing one of a number of arms control groups that "demonstrated the incredible potency" of using disease as a weapon but was only a small taste of what is possible". Four people have died as a result of the toxin. urged a 144-nation conference in Geneva to tighten restrictions on germ warfare in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. The anthrax used in letters sent to addresses in New York City, Florida and Washington, "was derived, almost certainly, from a US defence laboratory," said Ms Rosenberg.

Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg was affiliated with New York Cornell Medical Center which is only a few blocks from the work place of Ms. Nguyen that died mysteriously from pulmonary anthrax. Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist formerly of Cornell Medical College and now Research Professor at the State University of New York. Is the chair the Federation of American Scientists' (FAS) Working Group on Biological Weapons, a core group of ten professionals with expertise ranging from technical to medical to legal to political, and, in addition, dozens of collaborating consultants on specialized issues.

Freeper comment: "After researching their writings, I have become concerned that some members of the working group, may have become pathologically obsessed with the need to convince the US government to ratify the Protocol on Biological Weapons that was rejected by the Bush administration. The members are extremely upset that after working tirelessly on the new Biological Weapons treaty for at least seven years, it has failed to gain sufficent support in Congress, and has been rejected by the Bush administration.

Reading their publications I get the impression that some of the scientists could have become almost fanatically convinced that the future of humanity depends upon the Protocol's implementation. They are brimming with anger and frustrations that it has not been ratified.

I believe that one or more of the leftists scientists, intimately involved with this issue, could have had the means (some are involved in biological, and epidemical reasearch, and could have obtained Anthrax through their connections,) and the motives, which may have been to send a small number of anthrax laden envelopes to newspapers and politicians, in an effort to raise public awareness of the potential risks of biological weapons, create fear, and thereby prompt the Congress and the President to ratify the Protocols for Biological Weapons Control Treaty- which seems to have become their obsession.

The fact that the number of envelopes was small points toward a demonstrative bit of terrorism- to illustrate what could happened in a biological terror attack. It is possible that the attack had unexpected consequences.

A terrorist wishing to inflict damage to the population as a whole, would certainly have sent hundreds of anthrax laden letters rather then just a handful.

The fact that the letters were sent to American Media, NBC, NY POST, and CBS suggests that the sender wanted to raise public awareness of the problem. The letters sent to the Congress suggests both an hostility to the Senate for failure to pass the Protocols for Biological Warfare Control, and in order to teach a lesson to the Senators that they cannot avoid the issue.

The following quote comes from ScienceNow 21 Aug 2001:

The protocol, meanwhile, will remain in limbo unless sympathetic nations were to put it as a resolution before the United Nations General Assembly (as happened with the nuclear test ban treaty)--or, perhaps, until a biological terror is uleashed. "I hate to think you can'r get countries to act unless a disaster strikes," says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg chair of the Federation of American Scientists' working group on Biological Weapons. But, unfortunatly(unbelievable choice of words,) there doesn't appear to be any other force majeure to force action.

The F.A.S. connection is compelling, but Freeper wonders how the women in NYC and Connecticut would tie in to their publicity campaign. Freeper asks "Could it be that the two women were unknowingly exposed to anthrax as part of a test of an antibiotic? Conversely, could it be that they came in contact through some alternative method of distribution that was also a test?" The two women disrupt the publicity/political seeking profile of the perp. Had there been numerous cases, it might continue to fit that profile, but they are too isolated to seem to have a political purpose.

A telegrapher [commercial or railroad] or military communicator would have used the zero, but those trained since the 1970s routinely add a slash to the zero to differentiate it from the letter *O*. A European would follow the month/day/format of 11.09.01 and the similar US military format would routinely abbreviate the month to eliminate the confusion: 11 SEP 2001. Some computer-world oriented procedures also follow the logical day/month/year format, though since the Y2K panic, the year is most commonly written with all four digits.

Much has been made of the fact that the date is written in the American order of month-day-year, but most foreigners would be aware of that and, in fact, would have become accustomed to that order after a few years here -- they'd be repeatedly told by Americans that they were writing dates incorrectly if they used the day-month-year order. But nobody misunderstands a date written with dashes instead of slashes; nobody even comments on such a thing, so a foreigner could easily not realize that it looks foreign.

Note though that telegraphers [and some amateur radio operators] also sometimes send the quicker *dash* character [*----* in international Morse] rather than *slash* [-**-*] [or *stroke* in Brit/Euro parlance] and thereby routinely write that char as the seperator. And at least some air traffic controllers will use dashes, rather than slash/stroke.

A few months of typing the date with slashes -and having error messages pop up whenever he tries to write the date with slashes, which are illegal in PC and Unix filenames-has made the format instinctive for him. Under this scenario, even someone educated to write the day before the month would put the month first in a filename-after all, you want the report from 11/26 to sort with the reports from November, not the reports from the 26th of each month.

Going out even further on a limb, to sort completely correctly the filename should be "Status Report 01-11-26.doc," or better still "Status Report 2001-11-26.doc." However, that wouldn't be necessary if the filenames didn't include the year. Including the year, in turn, isn't necessary if one batch of reports is never expected to cover more than 12 months. That would be the case, for example, with reports on short-lived medical research animals. And that, in turn, ties in with the various "disgruntled lab assistant" theories.

Freeper writes the date 09-11-01 because the slash as in 9/11/01 sometimes appears as a 1 if someone writes sloppily and the date can sometimes be confusing. Also, by adding the 0 to single digit months, there can be no mistake about the date. Many people who write in cap letters when printing (architects come to mind) often make a larger first letter; IOW, Freeper doesn't think this is all that unusual in America.

And such equipment can't be had just anywhere. Neither are purchases for such equipment generally made with more or less untracable cash, so there'd likely be a paper trail back to the financial sources behind such an effort- in which case it wouldn't be *just one lone crazed gunman labman*.

KNF Neuberger, Inc. markets the necessary laboratory equipment. They are at Two Black Forest Road in Trenton NJ which is located very close to the Kuser Road, where the accountant was infected.

According to the Wall Street Journal at most 8 labs have the virulent strain of anthrax that the terrorists used, and, reading between the lines, they all have been checked and cleared. They know where the anthrax came from, they just aren't telling.