09-11-01With the references to 9-11, death, and Allah, the letter writer tries to appear to be an Islamic terrorist. However, the line "Take Penacilin Now" doesn't sound like something a real terrorist would say. Instead it's more like what a doctor will tell to his patients: "Take two aspirins and I'll see you in the morning".
This is next
Take Penacilin Now
Death to America
Death to Israel
Allah is great
Did the anthrax attacker slip up and give away his true line of work?
Many other investigators have assumed that the anthrax attacker was attempting to warn about the anthrax in the envelopes by telling people to take "Penacilin". However it is unlikely that someone reading the letter would even understand that penicillin is a treatment for anthrax. Proper treatment of anthrax is something only a doctor or someone who works in the biodefense field would likely know.
So the warning attempt by the anthrax attacker was a dismal failure. No one who opened an anthrax letters from the September 18th mailing sought medical attention or contacted law enforcement.
Perhaps the anthrax attacker was a first-time terrorist?
In the second set of anthrax letters sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy sent on October 9, 2001, the anthrax attacker realized his mistakes and instead wrote this:
09-11-01This time around he left no doubt that there was anthrax in the letters and the reader was in extreme danger. The staffer in the Senator Daschle's office got the message: the Hart Senate building was evacuated 10 minutes after the anthrax letter was opened. Quick action by this staffer meant that no one died in the Hart Senate building in spite of very potent anthrax being sent in the Daschle letter.
We have this anthrax
You die now
Are you afraid?
Death to America
Death to Israel
Allah is great