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A Cultural Analysis of a Threat Communique

At ten o'clock in the morning on October 26, 1990, I was working in my office analyzing transcripts and audiotapes of actual hostage negotiation incidents when I received a phone call from an individual I know in a U.S. government agency in Washington, D.C. This individual mentioned that he was working on a threat assessment of a letter he just had received and wanted to know if I could provide a cultural analysis. His primary question was, "Does this letter appear to be an authentic letter written in an Arab cultural style or could it be written by someone trying to appear as an Arab terrorist?" I told him that I could do a cultural analysis of ...

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