... a letter sent to a Planned Parenthood office in Martin County tested positive for anthrax in an initial screening.
Now you know, THAT one I'd expect to have some sort of purely domestic link. I can't imagine that the people targeting the media would have the least concern about a Planned Parenthood office.
That said ... even considering the Microsoft Nevada mail as a pure target of opportunity -- Microsoft sent the initial mail, a check, and the infecting agents sent that very letter back -- whoever is doing this has shown a decided East Coast bias (not that we want them to expand their focus, oh no no no) and a focus on what might be called the pillars of the American establishment: media, government, business. Planned Parenthood is ... out of scale for their targets. The other targets make a kind of sense; Planned Parenthood makes you scratch your head and think, "Wait ... that's just not right." It's always possible, of course, that they could have picked something to demonstrate that nobody, big or small, is beyond the reach of ... whoever they are, but it just "feels" wrong, especially with the leter from "Army of God."
It may well be that all of the anthrax attacks are from the same domestic source, although I rather doubt it. For one thing, most domestic terror groups would be reluctant to piggyback on someone else's attacks this way, especially so in that most of our domestic terror groups are from the racist far right wing. They would NEVER want to be associated with someone like bin Laden and friends. For another ... getting hold of weapons-grade anthrax to send to Congress is more difficult than getting hold of anthrax generally.
And now AMI is declining to go back to their office space in Boca Raton: An American Media spokeswoman said the company would sell its Boca Raton facility and would not reopen in that building because many employees are concerned about returning to work there. . (Who the hell would BUY the thing?) That's going to be a major financial hit, replacing EVERYTHING. (Although the company that publishes the Inquirer, the Globe, the Weekly World News, and the Sun can certainly afford it -- the profit margins on those papers are monstrous large.)
And of course Congress doesn't have the choice of selling their building. (Although they could meet at the Greenbriar bunker in West Virginia while the ventilation system is purged and cleaned and every piece of paper in the building is ironed or gamma-irradiated. (I dare say that gamma irradiators will be installed in the Congressional mailrooms and White House almost immediately, if not sooner.) The Greenbriar ventilation system is even designed to handle bioattacks of this sort. Really, can't you just see it? Busing Congress to and fro, their staffs stuck in DC during the day because the Greenbriar isn't THAT big ...
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