The notes that accompanied the mailed anthrax contained hand writing that had a distinctive mix of double height and single height all-capital letters. There were presumably intended to appear as though they originated in a fourth grade as the return address indicated.

In the handwriting example included in Glenn's article, notice that there are two distinctive heights to the letter A in Allah, although all letters are capital, with no lower case anywhere. We have no indication that the author even knew lower case letters. But there is another explanation. This type of writing is used in the drafting and engineering trade to label hand drawn blueprints. This indicates that the perpetrator had an engineering background and was much older than his "student" counterparts in the hijack portion of the 9/11 attack. Drafting boards have been out of commercial use since shortly after the introduction of the PC over two decades ago.

After looking at Ivin's publishing career, it is save to presume that he never worked very long at a relatively low level job like drafting or even engineering. Thus, the FBI presumably could not match the handwriting.

If he wanted to emulate the writing of a fourth grader, he could have done a much better job. The in my humble opinion, the perpetrator did not go to elementary school in the U.S. ,and English may not have been his first language.

@wingspan: The printing in the note doesn't look like the style I learned in mechanical drawing class many years ago, so I'd agree that the block printing does not indicate a scientific or engineering background.

I hope that Ivin's family has the fortitude to insist on a full autopsy by a private pathologist, but God knows they have enough to worry about now.

Greenwald's article is an attempt to blame America's lack of opposition to the Iraq/Afghanistan invasions on a handful of sensationalist articles. Investigators suspected Fort Detrick, rather than Iraq, as the Anthrax source as early as October 2001, and suspected Hatfill in 2002. Greenwald himself acknowledges that this was reported: 'FBI focusing on a domestic culprit", "White House resists that Iraq is behind germ warfare" and "ABC noted, from the start, that the White House denied the reports".

Americans need to take responsibility for their actions (or lack of them), rather than blaming others.

Some truth for a change :-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-anthrax-suspect-commits-suicide-as-fbi-net-closes-in-883263.html

just that