"The article is also circulating as an Internet message."

Skytel reports that the number of Internet messages has grown in the past two years to 5.2 million from 500,000 per month.

So far, we have refused to issue any official comment on the Internet message, and that has been a public relations nightmare for us.

Neither do they have any conceivable connection to the Internet messages, other than having read them.

The Internet messages were not sent by the same man.

The allusions in his Internet messages to killing other federal agents?

And there were literally billions of Internet messages every day.

And he said he had recently learned the identity of the man who posted the initial Internet message.

The statement did not refer specifically to the Internet messages.

On Sunday, the same group posted yet another Internet message saying the earlier statement was a fake.