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To: Ilaine who wrote (15595)	1/6/2002 7:57:25 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi CB! It's been a while. Hope you and yours are all doing well. ..whoever mailed the anthrax letters made an effort to reduce deaths by taping up the envelopes, and by putting a warning in the letters that they contained anthrax, and the recipient should take antibiotics. If the sender had wanted to cause maximum destruction, he/she would have dispersed it in an area with many people, e.g., the New York subway system, the Washington metro train system. I'll agree that the targets were likely specific rather than mass oriented. But an alternative theory that I'll offer on the taping is more intuitive. The perpetrator did not want to contaminate his/her own surroundings. The contents of the envelope must have been filled in a highly controlled situation and then transported. A car to the mailbox? You want your car massively contaminated with anthrax? And the more places that you did contaminate along the way does increase the likelihood of their being a track back to you. You're own survival is at stake here as well; this was not a suicide mission..unless it was that little old lady in the Northeast..I don't think so. I find that very curious now that I think about it. I read it on Free Republic, a very conservative web site - the writer suggested that the sender was really a liberal like the Unabomber Very conservative web site is an understatement IMO. Whacked out, very right wing would be closer.....All the intitial known targets [exlude cross contamination] were liberals: Levin, Daschle, Dan Rather, etc. So that portion of the story has a snippet of truth in it. Though I think you're saying that to claim that a liberal would attack liberals so that you would think it was a conservative is a silly speculation..which is what the New Republic is good at. And that I would certainly agree with. jttmab

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