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Circulating since:  Sept. 2001
 

Email text contributed by A. Handler, 11/02/01:

Subject: Not a forwarded message! This is from me!

Hey everyone! Hope you are well! I just want to give you all some information that did not come through an e-mail or a million other people. I got this from my own mother last night. I know there are a lot of rumors and jokes going around, but this is honestly true. Here it is:

A secretary at the school where my mom teaches in Jersey City has a grown daughter who was at the airport in Baltimore earlier this week. The woman's daughter was walking through the terminal when a man walking in front of her dropped his carry on bag and items fell out. There was nothing suspicious about the stuff he dropped. The woman's daughter stopped and helped him pick up his stuff. He thanked her several times and then said that he was going to give her some advice becasue she had been so nice to him. He told her "not to go anywhere on November 6th". He appeared to be of Middle-Eastern descent. She immediately reported the incident to airport security. They couldn't locate the guy, but they contacted the FBI. The FBI interviewed the woman and showed her pictures not of the most wanted, but of individuals who were on a watch list. Sure enough, she identified a picture of the guy who she had helped. There were no specifics and the guy was not at a particular gate so they were not able to determine his destination, but it sounds very scary and could be very credible. As far as I know, none of you have travel plans for next week, but I know several of you are in the city every day or a few days a week. The 6th is Tuesday and is also election day. If anything happened to anyone I know and I did not pass on this information to them, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Please just be alert and pass on this info. to anyone you know who may have travel plans or be in a densely populated area on the 6th. I can't speak for everyone, but if I had travel plans that day I would cancel them based on this info. Be safe & take care.

By the way, how about those New York Yankees?!!!! Yeah!!!

-Scott


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