Does the following seem strange to you?
...said the envelope bore the return address of a medical publishing house in Orlando, Fla., that regularly sends him material. A spokeswoman for Mosby Inc., a unit of Reed Elsevier PLC, confirmed it was listed as the return address and said the company was "fully cooperating" with investigators.
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The address was typed, rather than handwritten, with a clear plastic window for the address. Dr. Banfi said he didn't open the letter; he was suspicious because it bore a Zurich postmark even though it had the Orlando return address. He said he didn't know why he would receive such a letter. "Fate," he said.
So, he regularly got material from that Orlando company, but this time, he was suspicious because the postmark was from Zurich. How many people look at the postmark, and keep in mind, he is in Chile, so whether the postmark was Zurich or Orlando, it would still have been a foreign postmark. And, is Zurich such a suspicious place from which to receive medical material? It's not as if it was postmarked in Baghdad or Kobul.
A Florida state laboratory that works closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed last week that the letter contained anthrax spores. The Atlanta headquarters of the CDC was still waiting Monday to receive a sample of the bacterium itself in order to test whether the strain matches that present in other letters.
A confirmed international case that could unlock the mystery, and with all of the investigators looking into this case, the CDC still had not received a sample???
U.S. investigators still haven't examined the letter; they have received only a poor-quality photograph of the envelope, which they say makes it difficult to glean any information.
Does that make sense?
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
The place that may have processed the letter still is waiting around to decide whether to test its facilities?
Nothing is adding up here... there is much more beneath the surface. |
