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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:21 AM
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HOLY CRAP! I think I just figured out the Anthrax case, look:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1638136.stm
"Police in Pakistan have detained two men in connection with a letter suspected of containing anthrax spores sent to the country's largest newspaper.

Mohammed Salim, a businessman who was detained in Karachi, is accused of putting powder into an envelope along with a news release sent to the Daily Jang newspaper last week.

He was taken into custody after police detained the head of an educational charity whose letter-head was on the release on Saturday.

Pakistani police say they are still examining under which law anthrax cases can be prosecuted.

The editorial offices of the Daily Jang - Pakistan's biggest circulation newspaper - reopened on Saturday after being decontaminated following the discovery of the letter last month.

More tests

None of the newspaper's staff were found to have been exposed to the bacteria.

Pakistan's leading hospital, which confirmed the letter as testing positive for anthrax, said the letter would be sent abroad for further tests.

The newspaper's editor, Mehmood Sham, said he had no idea why his publication had been targeted.

He said that although the paper supported the government's stand on terrorism, it had also given "vast coverage" to parties opposing the government's position.

The Pakistani Government acted quickly to calm public fears, saying it had set up a special cell in the Interior Ministry to deal with any potential threat.

It said it had enough antibiotics to cope with an outbreak."

Guess when this story happened? NOVEMBER...2001!!!!!!

Sunday, 4 November, 2001, 20:31 GMT

Wonder if there is a link?
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:23 AM
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1. Is Mr. Salim a business associate of Dick Cheney?
:tinfoilhat:
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exlrrp Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:25 AM
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2. The Cheney-Salim connection
Salim was represented by Harry Wittington, which may account for Cheney's shooting of him while he was wearing a bright orange vest and hat
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:25 AM
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3. First, it couldn't have been weaponized anthrax
because those spores volatize and disperse very quickly through the air. The whole area would have been contaminated, and a lot of people would have gotten very sick with quite a few deaths.

Weaponized anthrax is so dangerous there is no way it can be put into envelopes outside a high level containment facility.

Likely this was garden variety anthrax, complete with the waxy covering on the spores that make it heavy and hard to breathe in under normal circumstances. Most anthrax infections are skin infections, "wool sorter's disease," a lesion with a black center. Lung infections are incredibly rare.

There is no Pakistani connection, just a copycat one.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:33 AM
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6. a perfect example of what makes this place great
never heard of it before now and it is debunked in the same read.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:31 AM
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4. if you watch 911 press for truth, there is a big connection with pakistan
Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 09:32 AM by seabeyond
and 911 and the funding of, thru the govt. and the dude who made it says all the info is in sotries here and there. paul thompson?. i bet this would be interesting for him if he didnt have it

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-10167206415364
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:31 AM
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5. Not unless it was weaponized anthrax created in
US labs.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:37 AM
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7. Everyone has just missed the link...
Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 09:37 AM by originalpckelly
these people worked for an educational charity. The letters looked like they were written by someone who was a child. In addition to that, the word "penacilin" is spelled wrong. What if it really was a school child who wrote the letters? What if it really was someone in the fourth grade? And they were brain-washed like those little children who grow up in the KKK? GET IT? Their parents probably put them up to this, and they were willing participants because obviously they were brainwashed.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:38 AM
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8. And if you were a charity you wouldn't want to lick all of those stamps...
so you'd buy letters in bulk that had the postage on them already.
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