ANTHRAX - FBI to use the mail to seek clues about tainted letters

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FBI using the mail to seek clues about anthrax-tainted letters

By Associated Press, 12/13/01

NEWARK, N.J. -- The FBI will send out cards this holiday season to hundreds of thousands of New Jersey and Philadelphia residents in an effort to find those responsible for mailing four anthrax-laced letters.

The cards will include a sample of the handwriting from the tainted letters and excerpts from the profile FBI experts have developed of the anthrax mailer's likely personality traits.

They also will remind residents they can collect a reward of more than $1 million for information that leads to an arrest and conviction, said Special Agent Sandra Carroll, a spokeswoman for the Newark FBI office.

"We're trying to keep the information in front of people to see if they think of something, or if something in it acts to jog their memories," Carroll told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Thursday's editions.

"And we want to play up the reward money again," she said.

The cards will go out before Christmas to a broad area surrounding Trenton and extending into Philadelphia. The four letters passed through the Trenton-area postal processing plant in Hamilton.

Carroll said the cards will be similar to those sent out in October by the Postal Service, which taught people how to handle suspicious packages. The final form and wording of the FBI's card is still under development.

-- Anonymous, December 13, 2001

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There's a special kind of irony in this, isn't there? Gawd, I hope none of the cards are tainted by a bit of anthrax heretofore undiscovered.

-- Anonymous, December 13, 2001

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