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PRE-9/11 TERRORIST' MAIL CAME FROM INDY
By MURRAY WEISS
November 1, 2001
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EXCLUSIVE Threatening letters mailed to the
media before the World Trade Center attacks - bearing striking
similarities to the current anthrax-tainted letters - were mailed
from Indianapolis, where the deadly bacteria was discovered
yesterday, The Post has learned.
The pre-Sept. 11 letters were addressed in block letters that
virtually match the lettering on the anthrax-laced missives sent to
Sen. Thomas Daschle, the New York Post and NBC, law-enforcement
sources said.
One source allowed The Post to see copies of envelopes from several
of the earlier letters.
Each line of the printed address clearly sloped downward to the right
and the handwriting eerily resembled that on the anthrax letters.
Federal investigators checked the return addresses on the letters,
the sources said, but none of them was real.
The return address on one letter - addressed to Fox News Channel's
Bill O'Reilly - listed the name of Sean Hannity, another FNC
personality.
Despite the obvious twisted humor, that letter and about 15 more now are a major focus
of the far-flung federal probe, the sources say.
The similarities between the pre-Sept. 11 and post-Twin Tower disaster letters has
further fueled a theory at the FBI and Justice Department that the anthrax scare is
the work of a twisted home-grown menace rather than a
terrorist linked to state-sponsored action or Osama bin Laden.
Source say investigators are eyeing a number of groups, including radical members of a
pagan cult.
The Wiccan group fashions itself as modern-day witches seeking religious freedom, but
they are not known to be violent.
Investigators are probing whether a disturbed member of the group may have taken a
bizarre turn and is targeting the media and the government in particular.
Indiana officials yesterday said that it was a coincidence they tested for - and found
- traces of anthrax in a facility that repairs parts from sorting machines used by the
U.S. Postal Service.
Inspectors initially started testing for the deadly bacteria in another repair
facility, in Topeka, Kan., after several workers experienced flu-like symptoms, said
Darla Stafford, spokeswoman for the Greater Indianapolis
post office.
She said inspectors then tested in Indianapolis as a precaution
because parts from an anthrax-affected post office in Washington,
D.C. were recently repaired there.
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