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...will be largely thanks to James Fitzgerald of the FBI Academy's Behavioral Analysis Unit, a longtime student of such grandiose murderers. They're almost invariably male, says Fitzgerald, and they're always filled with anger. In this case, the rage is directed, for reasons still unclear, at Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle and someone at the New York Post. "They represent something to him," says Fitzgerald. "Whatever agenda he's operating under, these people meant something to him." Indeed, the FBI is hoping the mailer might have spoken contemptuously of them to an acquaintance who will recall the incident...
...Sunday, a New Jersey postal employee who works at the Hamilton mail facility was hospitalized with inhalation anthrax; the tainted letters sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle both passed through the Hamilton center, and authorities are trying to recreate the path and timeline of the letters' travels...
...anthrax investigation is moving slowly in large part because authorities are chasing multiple moving targets. The contaminated letters that we know of - sent to Tom Daschle, Tom Brokaw, American Media, etc. - each passed through a multitude of mail processing centers and post offices before landing in their target offices. The key now is tracing each letter's travels as precisely as possible - and identifying exactly who might have touched each letter, and even what other letters might have touched the contaminated mail...
...Investigators are examining the two letters sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. The letters, penned in identical, block-style lettering, included threats to the U.S. and to Israel. The Brokaw letter urged the recipient to take penicillin "now" while the Daschle letter had a far more aggressive and angry tone...
Similar scares swept the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and the rural biweekly Dickson Herald in Tennessee. Fox News in New York revealed that a letter addressed to its president, Roger Ailes--opened, as was Brokaw's letter, by an assistant--had also contained a mysterious white powder. And in Reno, Nev., officials said a letter returned to a Microsoft Corp. office from Malaysia, apparently having been intercepted and tampered with, had initially tested positive for traces of anthrax...