THE ANTHRAX LETTERS & WHAT THEY CAN TEACH US cont'd

Having lived in a Moslem country and being acquainted with Moslems, and some Arabic, leads me to believe that a Moslem did not write this letter. The wording is definitely not the wording that an Arabic-speaking Moslem would use, but is a crude attempt to mimic what a Westerner might suppose a Moslem would write. The Moslems tend to stick to Arabic religious phrases and would tend to write "Allah Achbar" or something similar. This is because for the Moslems, the only true Koran is the Arabic Koran. This is one big reason the Moslem religion remains closely tied to Arabic, and why Moslems are not passing out English translations of the Koran on street corners. While the person who wrote these letters was clearly intelligent, the person who composed it was clearly not intimately familiar with the Moslems. For instance, dates for people in Europe and the Middle East begin with the day first, followed by the month and then the year. Would a terrorist that totally disdains the Western world change his method of writing a date?

It is very obvious that the writer is deceptive and is an American. The handwriting itself reveals such things as: the writer is very intelligent, sensitive, has a fear of failure (a fear of making mistakes, in other words driven to success), gives attention to detail and is able to concentrate. This is no first grader. This is not even a teenager. It is clearly an educated mature adult who wrote this. The handwriting shows the writer is systematic and self-confident. He (or she) is the type of person to hold on to his ideas and his plans. Why would an intelligent educated American print this letter rather than type it? I think the reason is that the writer was expecting people to initially believe that it came from a 4th grader, and because they would not suspect anything sinister from a 4th grader they would let their guard down. After all, how many 4th graders run around with weapons grade Anthrax spores?

The postmark is 10-11-01, but the letter is dated 9-11-01. This is clearly deceptive to link the letter to the 9-11 event. The writer clearly wants to identify himself with the 9-11 event, even though all over the world, people have genuinely viewed the event with shock and horror. This tends to lead me to believe the writer was not directly connected to the perpetration of the 9-11 events, because in that case this writer would be trying to hide his association with the 9-11 crimes.

The writer shows some clues in the handwriting that lead me to believe he has some engineering training.

This gifted practical writer should be able to correctly anticipate the fallout from this letter, so there is no question the writer is not against the consequences of this letter, the primary fallout being to encourage passage of legislation like the Patriot Act. At this point, before we analyze the writing further, let's ask ourselves, why would an intelligent American write a letter like this just prior to the USA Patriot Act (anti-terrorist bill that stripped America of its Bill of Rights)? Why did he want anti-terrorist legislation passed so badly that he was willing to kill several people?

Now back to looking at the handwriting. The writer has been very traumatized, and may even be so traumatized that he has DID (disassociative identity disorder - multiple personalities). This raises all kinds of questions as to why the writer actually did this. Was the person under mind control? This is a definite possibility. Was the person subjected to carrying out orders? Did the person have a deep-seated grudge? Or is it possible that all of these might apply?

The writer has a "dark" melancholic temperament and is self-centered. He (or she) is often depressed. As a sensitive person the writer can become gloomy, pessimistic, withdrawn and introverted. This raises the question, is it possible the person acted on his own? The writer does have an impatient impetuous side to him. If the writer acted on his own, then it means that the person is very likely a technically skilled worker with personal access to weapons grade Anthrax. The set of people that fit this description is rather small. This also agrees with the general area from where the letters were mailed. The east coast, for instance Ft. Detrick, is home to this kind of Anthrax. This tends to encourage the hypothesis that the person acted alone within the traveling constraints of where the writer worked. This does not preclude the possibility that someone else gave the person orders-but the actual mechanics of sending the Anthrax was most likely done by one individual.

Is it possible the person (most likely a government employee) acted on his own and the government has chosen to look the other way, to avoid a scandal or adverse publicity? Either the government has quietly dealt with this person in a punitive way, or the government is complicit with what the person carried out. These are variables that the reader could follow up on and investigate. More questions on this later.

This person is a complicated person to understand, and may be much different on the inside mentally than what appears on the surface. The writer is involved with technical details, quite possibly lab research. The proficiency of the printing shows that the person likes to communicate through facts and figures. What we are looking at here is the handwriting of someone who is a technical person (an American by the way), who has access to weapons grade Anthrax. The fact that this person is posing as a Moslem terrorist should be of great interest. Why is this person wanting the Moslems blamed? If the Anthrax terrorist had his own agenda of terror, his timing and letter makes no sense. The letter does make sense if the letter was written to encourage a backlash against Moslems and to encourage the passage of the anti-terrorist legislation giving the U.S. government absolute powers.

The person who sent the anthrax knew what he was doing, and knew the repercussions. The person was personally motivated to carry out this activity, although the evidence also suggests that the person may also have been encouraged by some form of mind-control and may also have carried out the activity after some trigger event or order. This person is guilty of murder.

CONCLUSIONS

While there are many questions that are unanswered, a study of the handwriting and its content shows that it was done by a technician (the type who would be involved in research) who had access to this sophisticated type of Anthrax and who most likely sent the letters by himself. Given these clues, it should be relatively easy to narrow down a small set of potential suspects.

In a previous criminal investigation, government handwriting analysts identified from a criminal's handwriting the exact kind of building the criminal would prefer to live in, and law enforcement in a large city then went directly to the building, which matched that description. There they discovered the criminal and arrested him. In this case, handwriting alone provided the clues to pinpoint a fugitive.

Given the nature of this crime (murder) and that the anthrax murderer was personally motivated to carry out this activity, and the small set of potential suspects, it seems legitimate to raise questions about the government's "investigation" of this heinous crime that caused so much trouble.