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Politics : Homeland Security
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (648)11/27/2001 6:29:11 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 827
 
A few additional points from the WSJ anthrax article:

1) As I suspected, the letter could have been mailed from the USA and still receive a Swiss postmark. Thus, the lone USA terrorist theory is still plausible...

An official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the agency had no evidence that the letter had actually been mailed from Orlando. The letter could have been mailed from the U.S. and still received a Zurich postmark if it was processed by Swiss Post International (USA Inc.), a subsidiary of the Swiss post office. Swiss Post, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, is a wholesaler that handles overseas mail for about 30 U.S. businesses, said Michael Knorr, the company's director. Swiss Post is awaiting more information on the letter before deciding whether to test its facilities for anthrax, and Mr. Knorr said the company hasn't heard from the FBI or other investigators. Mosby officials Monday night said they couldn't determine if the company uses Swiss Post.

2) It has not yet been positively determined that the 94-year-old woman died from the exact same strain sent in letters...

The CDC has said that the strain of anthrax that infected and killed 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren of Connecticut was "indistinguishable" from those that were mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and several media outlets. But that doesn't mean that the strains are positively the same. Instead, it means that a preliminary test comparing eight parts of the bacterium's DNA found no differences.
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