To get people to think ask them if they remember Anthrax...

[libertypirate]

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According to a LexisNexis search conducted by TomDispatch.com, "between Oct. 4 and Dec. 4, 2001, 389 stories appeared in the New York Times with "anthrax" in the headline." During the same period, 238 "anthrax" stories appeared in the Washington Post. Think about that for a second. Now consider the noise made by all the other media outlets. Now add all that noise together. That's a lot of noise.

These days though, the silence is deafening.

Anthrax? Are you there? Anybody home?
Have you heard of anthrax lately? Do you know what became of the anthrax investigation? Do you know if anybody was ever arrested? Do you know if the FBI has any leads? What do you know about anthrax? When was the last time you saw an anthrax story in the newspaper?
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But here is the real gist of it all:

All the anthrax used in the various anthrax attacks in 2001 came from a United States military base. They all came from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland. But there were two separate mailings of anthrax letters. One batch of letters was mailed on or about September 18, 2001. This batch went to various media outlets and contained cutaneous anthrax (Ames Strain).

Then on or about October, 9, 2001, the second batch of letters was mailed out. This batch contained a much more lethal "weaponized version" of the Ames strain. These letters were sent to two Democratic Senators.

Hydrocarbon analysis showed that all of the anthrax found in the letters was incubated within two years of the time it was mailed.

And from CNN on June 26, 2002:

"This discovery lends credence to the theory that whoever mailed the finely milled anthrax spores -- known to be of the Ames strain -- has a current connection to a sophisticated laboratory.

Investigators have long believed the suspect possessed a sophisticated knowledge of anthrax and a high level of training."

Now, here is something everybody seems to miss. If Osama bin Laden is responsible for the 9/11 attacks (yeah right), isn't it somewhat odd that some other group of people with certain ties to the United States government just so happened to pull off the anthrax attacks within a week of 9/11 and again on October 9? Are we supposed to believe that the anthrax attacker(s) were just waiting around with extremely fatal weaponized anthrax in their refrigerators for the right moment? And what about the letters? C'mon, these guys were obviously trying to frame Arabs for the attacks. Isn't this the slightest bit suspicious to anybody in the media?

So let's recap.

The Anthrax came from an American military base.
The Anthrax required sophisticated knowledge and a high level of training.
The Anthrax letters contained feeble minded language to make us all believe they were written by some "stupid Arab".
The letters were mailed within one week of 9/11. (Were they just waiting around for a 9/11-like event to take place or was it all just a big coincidence?)

If the Anthrax attackers are related to the US government, what does that tell us about 9/11? Perhaps this is why the media went to sleep on the anthrax story after it was revealed that the anthrax came from Fort Detrick. Hmmmmm, what do you think? After all, if you connect the dots on anthrax, 9/11 is pretty much a no-brainer, isn't it?

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http://bulldogpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/01/anthrax-hello-anybody-home-hello.html

[Make7]

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No one will ever forget Anthrax.

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[Tim Howells]

2. Here's more on the anthrax attacks

5. THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS

So ... whoever perpetrated September 11 obviously has tons of money and a tight military organization. You would expect that this would not be an isolated event, but the start of a coordinated campaign. If this was the work of Islamic fundamentalists, then where is the Jihad? Where are the Holy Warriors who should have been positioned and ready to follow up on the opening shot of the war?

There was a second wave of attacks--the dissemination of anthrax letters to both random and carefully selected targets. However, everyone now acknowledges that this was an inside job--that the weapons grade anthrax used would only be available to a very limited number of scientists and military/intelligence officers working in the United States on highly classified projects.

In fact, according to the leading expert on the anthrax attacks, Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, the FBI has long known exactly who was behind these attacks--attacks that have so far have killed at least five American citizens--but the Bureau has decided to let the perpetrator off the hook, just as the sponsor of the September 11 hijackings has been let off the hook. Professor Rosenberg is a microbiologist and an expert on biological warfare who has served as a Presidential Advisor and testified before congress on this subject. She was selected by the Federation of American Scientists to investigate the anthrax attacks. Over one year ago, in January 2002, Professor Rosenberg stated:

The FBI has surely known for several months that the anthrax attack was an inside job. A government estimate for the number of scientists involved in the US anthrax program over the last five years is 200 people. According to a former defense scientist the number of defense scientists with hands-on anthrax experience and the necessary access is smaller, under 50. The FBI has received short lists of specific suspects with credible motives from a number of knowledgeable inside sources, and has found or been given clues ... that could lead to incriminating evidence. By now the FBI must have a good idea of who the perpetrator is.

"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/BHR-FAS2.html

Another leading expert on biological warfare, Professor Francis Boyle of Indiana University, concurs with Rosenberg's opinion. Professor Boyle is a renowned expert on international law who has testified before Congress on legal issues concerning biological warfare. He was instrumental in drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. His analysis of the anthrax attacks has led him to the same conclusion reached by Professor Rosenberg, which he states even more bluntly:

I believe that the FBI knows exactly who was behind these attacks and that they have concluded that the perpetrator was someone who was or is involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research conducted by the US government (the Pentagon or the CIA) or by one of the government's civilian contractors. For that reason, the FBI is not going to apprehend and indict the perpetrator.

"Bio-Warfare and Terrorism," Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Illinois School of Law, Synthesis/Regeneration 30, Winter 2003
http://web.greens.org/s-r/30/30-12.html

As with the investigation of the funding channel for the September 11 hijackers, the anthrax investigation started off fast and made great progress only to come to a screeching halt with the perpetrator in easy reach.

The most obvious pieces of evidence were the notes that accompanied the anthrax mailings. These contained crude misspellings and praised Allah while calling for the downfall of the United States. These notes were quickly recognized as a transparent hoax. As Professor Rosenberg has stated:

Expert analysts for the FBI believe that the letters were written by a Westerner, not a Middle Easterner or Muslim, although the text was clearly intended to imply the latter.

"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/BHR-FAS2.html

The anthrax strain used was consistent in all letters. A detailed genetic analysis narrowed the search to a single laboratory: the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland:

"Riddle of the spores--Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled? The evidence points one way," George Monbiot, The Guardian, May 21, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,1520,719367,00.html

Further, the sophisticated weaponization process used to treat the spores, and the highly specialized expertise needed to store and handle the spores, narrows the search even much further. This leaves us with just a handful of suspects involved in the Fort Detrick program:

"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/BHR-FAS2.html

With the field narrowed down so drastically, Professor Rosenberg points us to what I believe is the key piece of evidence in identifying the perpetrator:

On Sept. 21, three days after the first anthrax mailing and before any letters or anthrax cases were in the news, an anonymous typed letter was mailed to Quantico accusing an Egyptian-American scientist, formerly of USAMRIID, of plotting biological terrorism. The accused scientist was quickly exonerated by the FBI. The letter's writer displayed familiarity with work at USAMRIID and claimed to have formerly worked with the accused scientist.

"The Anthrax Case: What the FBI Knows," Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D., June 13, 2002
http://www.911dossier.co.uk/ax02.html

Obviously the anonymous accuser himself fits the profile of the actual perpetrator. Furthermore he was able to correctly anticipate that there would be an anthrax attack and that the strain of anthrax used would lead to Fort Detrick. The conclusion seems inescapable that the anonymous author of this false accusation was the author of the attack itself.

The falsely accused was an Egyptian born scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad who worked at USAMRIID during the 1990's. During his employment there he was the target of racist attacks from a Jewish coworker, Lt. Col. Philip Zack. In one incident Zack mailed Assaad a rubber camel with a huge model sexual appendage attached, together with an eight page poem that described Dr. Assaad among many other things as a "life form lower than yeast."

"Arab scientists recount hostility and harassment at military anthrax lab," Lynne Tuohy and Jack Dolan, The Hartford Courant, December 19, 2001
http://911readingroom.org/bib/whole_document.php?article_id=191

As a result of this and a string of similar racist attacks by Lt. Col. Zack, Assaad filed a harrassment suit and Zack was forced to resign his position at USAMRIID. However, Zack continued to have access to the lab illegally with the help of a personal friend there:

"Anthrax Easy To Get Out Of Lab--Security Was Based On Trust In Scientists," Jack Dolan, Dave Altimari and Lynne Tuohy, The Hartford Courant, December 20, 2001
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hcourant.html

Certainly Lt. Col. Zack must be considered to be the prime candidate as the author of the letter falsely accusing Dr. Assad. In my view this also makes him the prime suspect in the attacks themselves--especially when you take into account the fact that his illegal comings and goings at Fort Detrick occurred at the time when anthrax spores matching the genetic profile of those used in the attacks went missing there.

"Deadly specimens disappeared from Army research lab in '90s," Jack Dolan and Dave Altimari, The Hartford Courant, January 21, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hcourant.html

In any event, the suspects in this crucial investigation are certainly NOT fanatical Islamic fundamentalists. Everyone close to the investigation agrees that the perpetrator is a highly qualified bio-warfare expert who has worked on highly classified projects for the United States government. He has very specific and rare skills that in themselves narrow the field to a mere handful people, without even taking into account the evidence surrounding the mailings themselves. The postmarks provide a series of time stamps associated with specific locations. An investigation like this can stall when there are thousands of possible suspects; it cannot stall when there are a handful of suspects and abundant clues to resolve the perpetrator's identity. Professors Rosenberg and Boyle are quite correct: the FBI is deliberately shielding the perpetrator of these terrible crimes, which have taken the lives of five innocent American citizens and which attack the foundations of our free and open society.

But not everyone is going unprotected. With exceptional foresight so notably absent elsewhere in this case, Vice President Dick Cheney was able to anticipate that anthrax would become a problem in the Capitol. He and his staff started taking an anti-anthrax medication (Cipro) on the night of September 11, before the letters containing anthrax started to arrive:

"White House mail sorters anthrax-free," Sandra Sobieraj, Associated Press, October 24, 2001
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/bush_cipro.htm

"Judicial Watch Sues Bush Administration For Anthrax Documents--Group Says Government Had Braced In Advance For Anthrax Attacks," Associated Press, June 9, 2002
http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml

Obtaining and preparing the anthrax will have been a difficult and lengthy process. The attacks, beginning just seven days after September 11, must have been prepared well in advance by a highly sophisticated government insider. Like the hijackers themselves and their sponsors in the ISI, the perpetrator clearly has powerful protectors high inside the U.S. government. The two attacks seem to have been perfectly coordinated to work towards the same objective. The ever-incisive Professor Rosenberg observes:

The perpetrator was probably ready before Sept. 11 and simply took advantage of the likelihood that Sept. 11 would throw suspicion on Muslim terrorists. Was the perpetrator trying to push the US toward some retaliatory military action?

"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/anthraxreport.htm