Hearing from OBL reminded me of the fact that when your local wingnut brags that we have not been attacked since 911 they are wrong.
They convieneintly forget about the anthrax attacks in 2001. The anthrax attacks are generally linked with 911 but there has never been any proof of a linkage. they are the most mysterious of all the terrorist attacks ever on USA soil. I have been interested lately in learning more about the investigation and the media reports. The fact that the recipients where democrats and the news media is very weird. Of course targeting media organizations is a highly efficient way to spread panic, and the dems were in middle of negotiating the patriot act.
Looking through google searches, the most interesting story I could find was all the way back in Sept 2002. The article I found is pretty complete and worth reading, here is a snippet.
The still-unknown culprit also sought to throw suspicions on Muslim or Arab terrorists. First there was the timing of the letters—days after the Sept. 11 attack. The first anthrax letters, as well as some hoax letters, were mailed Sept. 18 to 25. The first public report of an anthrax case in Florida was not until Oct. 4.
Dr. Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991 amid allegations of unprofessional conduct. The Jewish scientist and others were accused of harassing their co-worker, Dr. Ayaad Assaad, until the Egyptian-born American scientist quit, according to an article in Connecticut’s The Hartford Courant, the country’s oldest newspaper in continuous publication. Dr. Assaad sued the Army, claiming discrimination after Zack’s badgering.
Although Dr. Zack was let go, he returned frequently to visit friends, and used the Fort Detrick laboratories for “off-the-books” work after hours. After reports of missing biological specimens—including anthrax, Ebola and the simian AIDs virus—came to light, as well as reports of unauthorized research, a review of surveillance camera tapes recorded Dr. Zack entering the lab late on the night of Jan. 23, 1992, according to The Hartford Courant report. He was let in that night by Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack’s, although she now says she has no memory of the evening. She did say that Zack occasionally visited and that other friends let him in.
Inexplicably, the national press ignored these documented unauthorized visits to a top-secret government lab embroiled in the anthrax attacks. Did journalists fear being labeled anti-Semitic for casting suspicions on a Jewish scientist?
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/sept-oct02/0209018.htmlHere are some more links I found on the topic:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/07/anthrax.probe/index.htmlhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067557/I think the american people need to reminded of the anthrax attacks of 2001 and the fact that they are still unsolved!
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