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To: MSI who wrote (6462)11/18/2001 1:18:11 PM
From: JRI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 99280
 
I see no reason why those letters can not be part of a broader terrorist campaign to scare the shi+ out of us...since when to terrorist get confined to mass murder operations exclusively?

Had there been no connection to the bombing attempts, then I'd lean on the side of "loner, unassociated" theory...but the Florida publishing cooincidence is too weird.

Also, it appears that Al Queda operates very autonomously..with different group having different specialities...it would not surpise me at all that certain group focus on, as you say, "pschy-ops" and/or chemical warfare.



To: MSI who wrote (6462)11/18/2001 10:43:45 PM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 99280
 
"Any questions ?"

Ah, the agent provocateur hypothesis !
Perverse enough to be interesting, but
a bit of overkill, don't you think ?

Then there's the smokescreen hypothesis -
the first victim was intended, the rest were
a screen. The list of possibilities is endless,
but it seems clear that the intent of the perpetrator
was not to commit mass murder but rather to instill fear,
and so I doubt there's a Mideast connection here - too subtle.

-wg


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